Sunday, January 23, 2005

ground hog day

having just spent a night drinking in my old local i have come to the conclusion that i may be stuck in ground hog day or at least that bar / town is . perhaps it's the same for you . I'll explain what i mean . when i arrived i found there were some friends there and some, better to call them , acquaintances . one such acquaintance " o " who is an artist was busy chatting to another acquaintance " m " . as the night progressed i learnt from the mutual friends that " o " was shagging " m " ( he's always been that discrete ) who is the girlfriend of another artist " i " , also a friend of " o " . now i suspected that their relationship was slightly open , let's say i thought the door was slightly ajar but i never expected the door was loosely attached to the frame hanging by one noisy rusty old hinge . and being as "o " is Mr shout-it-from-the-hills on the old sexual liaison front his relationship may end up ending up sooner than he thinks . it's not very often i'm in that bar now , although it used to be my haunt every friday / saturday night because you could always be sure of bumping into someone you knew . so who should arrive in but " s " who has spent most of his adult years living with tribes people in India and Pakistan close to the kyber pass . i didn't even recognise him at first . he was the pretty boy at school and we all wanted to sleep with his older sister . but now he looks about 10 years older than he actually is and has the teeth of a chain smoking 70 yr old bare fisted boxer . still , like i said , this place always draws them back again . and then there was the girl who was the girlfriend of a brother of one of my old neighbours - mad Kenny i called him ( there's a clue in the name ) . i remember being invited over for a drink by him late one night and she was in the house with him and his girlfriend . his girlfriend went to bed leaving the 3 of us . then Kenny started getting twitchy . it was clear he had an eye for her and didn't like me being there getting on with her . anyway i left but said i'd be up for a while if she fancied some drinks and that i'd leave my door open . so sure enough she arrived over . damn , she looked fine . in the morning she left by the side gate so that he wouldn't see her .now i hadn't seen her from that day and on the one night i go back to that town there she is in the bar .
so yeah , ground hog day i think .

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