Week O’Mondays (1) in Open Diary 2001-2018 (Pre-Prosebox)

  • Jan. 26, 2002, midnight
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Seriously couldn’t have had a worse week. I swear, every day seemed like a Monday. A cloudy, rainy, bone-chilling, crabby, PMS-y Monday. Nothing went right, and I even cried a little bit. Not a heaving, sobbing cry. Haven’t had a good one of those in a long, long time. Just a frustrated, can’t-do-anything-right, sorry-for-self round of tears and sniffles.

It’s Saturday. Still feels kinda like Monday because I’m at work (even after working until 9:00 last night). The weather couldn’t be more beautiful outside. Yet I’m inside, sitting in my dimly-lit office with my blurry eyes (I was too tired to take my contacts out last night, so I kept them in!) and my loser self working on some stuff that has to be sent to Hong Kong before my counterparts get there on Tuesday!

There’s some major stuff going down at work. I don’t want to write about it because it affects me in a big way and upsets me to think about it. So I really need to get my work done and get outta here. But I’ll finish an entry before I leave. I have to keep switching screens anyway. System seems really slow today. There’s a server down somewhere. Great. I wanna be outta here in an hour and a half!!

Okay, since everyone’s asking about Wednesday night’s date with Jack, I suppose I’ll deliver the goods. Let’s see. I think I have to start this one out with a bit of a preamble to explain how the evening began:

The other evening, when John, Suzie, Jack and I had dinner, our conversation somehow turned to dating disasters. I decided to share the story of “The Walletless Wonder”. This particular disaster happened during a hiatus from Open Diary, so I never got around to writing it down, so I can’t refer you to another entry. I’ll try to make it brief (and in easy-to-read bullet form!):

  • first date with WW…to see an early band and then eat dinner
  • go to club, WW doesn’t have cashola for cover charge so GS pays way in
  • WW leaves to get beers (gone for 30 minutes!)
  • WW sheepishly comes back with two beers and a shitty look on his face
  • WW finally explains he lost his wallet and only has a DISCOVER card and the place doesn’t even take DISCOVER (???)
  • GS asks why WW didn’t explain up front, asks how he thought he’d get away with only a DISCOVER card, and then asks why he even asked her out on a date in the first place if he knew he wasn’t going to have any $$$. And then asks how he got the beers!
  • WW explains that he told the bartender his predicament, and the bartender felt sorry for him so sent him away with beers gratis. Shrugged his shoulders on the other questions.
  • GS pays for the rest of the eve, until they decide to go somewhere that actually accepts DISCOVER
  • GS drinks up!
  • WW and GS make friends with some guy at bar
  • WW yaps while GS gets hungrier and hungrier and drunker and * hic * from all the alcohol on an empty stomach
  • GS turns away to yawn, talk to bartender, roll eyes…
  • WW asks if GS is bored
  • GS explodes at WW saying, “NO…I’m NOT BORED…I’m HUNGRY!!!!! And now I’m DRUNK because I haven’t eaten and I’ve had all these drinks while waiting for you to stop talking so we can go eat!!
  • WW says, “come on” and walks out door with GS following down the cracked and uneven sidewalk in clunky heels, 20 paces behind
  • WW practically runs back to his car (which was parked a million miles away because he didn’t have any cash to valet park!)
  • GS finally catches up, thinking it was time to eat…instead WW tries to take her home
  • stuck in MAJOR traffic jam
  • WW cranks sterio so they don’t have to talk
  • an hour goes by (for a normally 10-minute drive)
  • WW gets to GS’s apartment, and doesn’t even wait for GS to shut the car door before he takes off, squealing his tires all the way down the road!

    So at dinner with Jack, we had a good laugh about the Walletless Wonder and what a jerk he was and the fact that he would still try to go on a first date without a wallet and especially without at least warning the other party involved.

    Yes, I’m going somewhere with this!!

    But I’ll be damned if I don’t have to split this entry first!!


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