i just had an entirely surreal night at del's with one of my quasi-work friends. we started off having just good times, talking and joking and whatnot, and then we randomly met this guy who was friends with some girl we noticed because she was wearing some shiny pink prom dress with white gloves and pearls. apparently it was her 27th birthday yesterday, and she made a goal to kiss 28 people (+1 for good luck) during this birthday week of hers. at some point later that night, she came by and i wished her a happy birthday and asked if she wanted a drink. "no, you can't buy me a drink, but you should kiss me."
this was very confusing. i wasn't actually so sure that i wanted to kiss her, so instead my friend and i each kissed her on the cheek, which her friends documented with their digital camera (to record the 28 kisses, apparently). she then throughout the night kept coming back and dancing up against me and saying such things as, "i'm so bi it's not even funny."
this of course spurred my friend to call her over and force us to exchange phone numbers. i at this point established that i would not be likely to call her, especially given how drunk she was (i also pointed out to my friend that i wasn't exactly looking to date, but this was to no avail), and i drew out from her the fact that she is actually straight, though she has kissed a girl before. this conversation apparently scared the shit out of her (she called me a "predator" for talking to her while she was drunk, to my mortification), and she shied away for the rest of the night. this was somewhat a relief to my greatly embarrassed self.
i retaliated by embarrassing my friend and asking some cute boy if he did indeed want her phone number. she apparently did think he was cute and nice, though, so the only issue for her was whether or not he did actually want her number. when she went to the bathroom, however, he assured me that this was the case, so i think she's okay with it.
anyway, we met a ton of characters tonight, and it was a blast. i also shockingly had i think six beers and barely felt it. it was fun. i hadn't been out like that in a long while. i'm going to have to work this more into my schedule. woo hoo.
Posted by rrc at February 16, 2006 01:53 AMi was at del's last weekend.
i think anyone in a bright pink prom dress is suspect to either be really cool or really trouble (potentially both, but usually one or the other).
my friend ran into her old econ t.a. there once and he was really drunk and things got really weird. he got really insistant about my friend sleeping with him (she had a girlfriend at the time... who was there, too) then when she spurned him he got all weird and creepy. if he wasn't a short, slightly overweight, balding grad student we might have actually been scared.
Posted by: cb at February 16, 2006 08:59 AMweird t.a. well, this girl wasn't a short, slightly overweight, balding grad student -- she was a cute asian girl with red highlights, so i think she is just harmlessly eccentric. still, while i realize that extreme drunkenness causes one to be a little crazy and airheady in a way that one isn't normally, this wasn't really the setting where i'd be interested in anything.
my friend keeps insisting that i call her, but i keep responding that: 1) i'm already embarrassed that this random girl has my number and called me a predator, 2) i'm not looking and don't have time to date, and 3) even if some straight girl is curious when they're very drunk, if you want to hook up with them you have to catch them when they're very drunk -- if you call, you're both generally sober and that goes poorly.
argh. i had too much beer last night.
Posted by: rrc at February 16, 2006 10:53 AM