Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Why did I laugh ?

We were out of Oil. We had just played a fabulous game of Foot-tennis and we needed to be fed. "Its Wednesday".. I screamed in joy.. "cheap drinks at Westend".Bogdan replied, "Sure, lets have a pitcher and walk up to the corner shop and get the oil too, we'll come back and have one of our regular nights -- wash the dishes, cook, drink a beer or two while cooking,eat, relish, watch TBS ('sex and the city', crib about 'Outback Jack'),quick-channel-surf even before the picture registers in your head, and sleep".

So there we were, equipped with only a 'tenner' and a debit card, we made a decision to go to the Westend pub first as it wouldn't be too smart of us if we were seen carrying a bottle of canola oil there.

Sweaty as we were, sitting out at the patio was a more radical choice,none empty though. I'd kill myself for grabbing the one with the lonely guy and not the lonely (and good-looking) girl. Conversations,beer, and ten minutes later -- the girl was an engineer and the guy was a two-time divorcee. Bogdan (who happens to be an engineer too)left me alone with the 'cribbing machine' for the engineer chick.

2 more pitchers and one more meaningless conversation later, we concluded three things
-- 1. If you are wealthy don't marry
-- 2. Everyone gets drunken alike, engineers divorcees and foot-tennis champions
-- 3 We had nothing to lose, so we ordered dinner. Oh yes! Another pitcher, just to go through dinner.

Blink of an eye and I found myself away from all this, in a new place,was this place an Irish pub? Yes it was! Voila, there was another pitcher too - and this time my fave one -- STELLA ARTOIS! I reached the point of no return. More Monologues (me) and less dialogues (me and Bogdan, who still stuck with me) later, we had 4 large slices of'I-dunno-what-yu-put-on-this-pizza' slices to keep us company while walking home. Surprisingly I don’t remember chewing/eating those pizzas as I was laughing for some odd reason looking at the street- signs on each street, I was laughing as I was yelling them out.

But I have no idea why.