December 8, 2008

• i’ve been getting paid the same as always, but my bank account is dwindling anyway.  do i count as a victim of this economic downturn?  i think so.  i need a bailout because i’m clearly too important to let die. 

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  i go pretty regularly to this one bar and chat up some of the staff sometimes.  some of them know me by name, others by face.  i usually talk to this one girl that works there and chat it up for one or two sentences just to say hi and stuff.  now i should tell you that i go to this place often and rarely ever leave sober.  more often than not, i am completely hammered by the time the lights come on and i shuffle out the door, and she sees me in this state pretty much all the time. 

  so, i’m talking to this girl about whatever and somehow it comes up that working there has made this girl hate drunk people.  and when i ask some questions about it she looks me dead in the eye and says “THEY ALL ACT LIKE ASSHOLES AND THEY FUCKING DISGUST ME.”  or something to that effect…  then she storms off. 

  err…  sorry?

  not sure what i did, if anything, or even if she was directly addressing the offender (though part of me thinks she might have been), but i felt like a little boy when she said that and i started feeling all guilty for all the times i’ve been a douche while drinking.  i don’t remember being rude to her specifically, but who the hell knows.  when i thought i was just saying hello, i could have been staring straight down into her cleavage in my drunken stupor, spilling my drink onto her chest or something.  even if i wasn’t a douche to her, i am 100% positive that i’ve been a douche to someone when i’ve been drunk, probably because i was drunk.

  so, here’s my pre-new years resolution.  be a nicer person when drunk. 

  (there’s pretty much no hope for the non-drunk version of me, so i won’t even try.)

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