I decide to meet Roger Hayes for our typical Monday Night Football affair. This usually involves meeting at either the McKinney Ave. Tavern or Christie's and enjoying dinner and a beer while we enjoy watching the Cowboys lose (they did win this time though). I normally wouldn't include such an uneventful night on here, but little did I know the evening and the conversation were going to turn out to be interesting. And besides, Roger had left a bitchy little message saying he was getting enough face time on the blog so here it is!
First, Roger Hayes shows up completely wasted. It's 7:00 pm and already one too many cheap rum and Cokes have been consumed. Apparently, he had gone to Gingerman before our meeting and added a few beers to the mix as well. I did not bother to inquire as to the reason of this binge. I, of course, was good and ordered merely a Diet Coke. Little did I know that the Budweiser folks were going to be there demonstrating their new product Busweiser Select. I seem to find every alcohol promotion in this city for some reason (a natrual talent!) and thus I had to partake.
Our conversation was amusing. Let's see.....apparently Lerxst and Roger have decided to start an internet modeling company (you have an IT exec and an attorney.....what the hell do they know about modelling???). Keep in mind that this will be the second business adventure for the two of them, with the first never having really gotten off the ground. It had something to do with buying properties from people who could not pay their taxes then selling them back to the rightful owners. Sounds a little suspect to me. Lerxst supposedly posted an internet ad on Craig's List (http://phoenix.craigslist.org/ers/92261463.html) and they have already gotten one response. When asked what their business plan was with the agency, Roger had no response. Apparently they hadn't thought that far yet! Sounds like they are just trying to solicit women under the guise of internet modeling agency to me!
The next topic of conversation......why yours truly has gotten off all Internet dating services. I received this message about a week ago in my yahoo personals account:
Hi Downtown,
Guess I may be a little out of your demographic but wanted to say hi and I like your profile. I am an Account Exec. for a company in Dallas. As mentioned in my Profile, my ex gave me herpes about 20 years ago and I am very careful about it, and never passed it on. Anyway, I am a good man who is ready to take the priority off my career and find a good woman to share my life with. I love to travel the world and have been to about 10 Countries in Asia, Europe, including Israel. If you think we maybe could be friends or more, please respond. You seem fun, interesting, and pretty. Either way best of luck to you in finding love.
Now, I know many of you who view this site have no idea who I am, but do you think I would be interested in a man who in his first letter to me points out that he has an STD??? After realizing that this was the caliber of men I was attracting, I decided that I would have better luck going out with Ms. Fabulous and randomly meeting people. Anyway, I told Roger about the ad, and we must have laughed 30 min. The next day, I sent him the message and the ad and he had no idea what it was. My response, "Do you even remember going out with me last night?"
As it turns out, Roger was on a drinking binge because of a fight with his ex-girlfriend. The situation had tormented him so much, that he had gone to see The Forty Year Old Virgin four times in the last two days! He called me last night, as he had walked out of the movie during his fourth viewing of it and wanted to come over and talk.
I can't even remember the subject of their fight, but I remember commnenting on how it sounded a bit high-schoolish to me. The evening was spent with Roger drinking a lot of water and him telling me about the "ghost" that inhabits his house. Apparently, this "ghost" has an affinity for his indoor pool (that's right....Roger lives in a house with an indoor pool ladies!). I had two words for him: VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS! I then decided the root of his current situation was his alcohol binge and that he needed to detox. Other topics of the night included laughing about how Roger likes to bury his mail in his back yard under the guise of "creating compost". I love the information my maid (Roger and I have the same maid for our houses) shares with me!
Once his fear of impending death were over and after I reassured him that he was not having a heart attack, Roger made his way home. I still haven't heard from him this AM so I hope he is alive. I need to call him shortly to see how the detox process is going! We are going to Los Angeles together for a wedding in a few days and thus I hope the process is complete by then. Roger, I love you, but sometimes your friendship is just painful!
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