Bar Flies

A schoolmate of mine from manila came to my hometown saturday morning, she told me was going to spend a night here and since it was a saturday, I was free that night so we decided to see each other and get coffee or something. I got out of the house around nine but hell I couldn't find her, I gave her a lot of calls to her mobile phone but she wasn’t answering or anything for more than hour, she probably had something important coming up that she couldn’t make it, she’s working for some law firm and the other day I saw her boss on the early evening talk show news and it probably had something to do with that.

When I said coffee or something to her, the alternative something was supposed to be beer, and since it was saturday and she wasn't around anyway, I wanted to go have some beers. Instead I met up with the little miss traveler that night, she hung out in this bar on this night strip joint where there was a lot of people going around. I joined her on her seat on the bar ledge and we had a few laughs, I had myself facing the bartender and a wall shelved with liquor bottles that I didn’t have to bother myself with the social crowd behind me, though I did lean backwards a couple of times. I always get so uncomfortable in social places but it was a great place to sit nonetheless.

There were a lot of bar flies in the ledge that night. There were two girls sitting beside me, they dressed hell glamorously but they didn’t have dates or anything and they weren’t even talking to each other. They kept opening their purses for nothing too, if should they pulled a lighter out, I could have asked for it since I left mine back home. And they weren’t even sipping on their drinks or anything, you could see it from the back of your head, by the time I have finished my second beer bottle their drinks hadn’t gone down an inch.

They were probably waiting for their dates to fall down from the sky, and while they did they were staring at the cable tv over the liquor shelf, it was showing some football game rerun and I felt funny about them because they were not the kind I’d expect to watch football games, they were faking it out alright, I didn’t even bother watching that game, I only remember it was liverpool against some team I wasn’t familiar with. Football games can get too dragging, I swear the last time I watched a full football game on a full sitting was last year’s fifa semifinals between germany and italy.

Little miss traveler had her share of amusement from her side of the table, some old caucasoid geezer sat beside her and dropped a line to her, I didn’t hear him but he talked together with his hands that you could tell he was talking, these people are losers.

And by the way thanks moiee for that melon vodka you got me.