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Whirlwind | The Look
I was her first and only victim.
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My sister and I batted around small talk for a little while. We were basically alone in the crowd. Not a bad thing, especially considering the crowd.
Peggy must've noticed because it wasn't long before she was doing her best to get us into the group.
"So Markham, your sister tells me you drive a truck."
"Yes ma'am. I drive for UPS. Those brown things are sorta like truck I guess."
"My goodness. A UPS man."
"Yes ma'am."
"And she tells me you're single?" she popped a seductive grin on her face as she said that.
"...uh-huh."
Peggy was a good bit older. Scratch that, Peggy was a alot older, like grandmother old, and married. I wasn't real sure where she was going with this.
I was getting uncomfortable.
I took a drink and looked over at Renee, as if to ask her if this woman had a nose problem.
Then Peggy blurted out, "Leslie's single too."
"oh... great."
I glanced at the tall, "single too" woman at the far end of the table, and offer up a half-assed smile and a head nod. Initially I thought she was paired up with one of the other guys at the table.
Later I found out she thought I was married to my sister.
Thirty minutes to go.
In between bites of potato skins and the fried cheese sampler I noticed the "single too" woman watching me. She'd be talking to Peggy, Dave or John, or taking a drink, but she kept her eye on me.
Odd.
Instead of getting all cocky, and sure of myself, my insecurities crept in and I started rationalizing that I had pitstains or a maybe booger was dangling.
Little did I know she was practicing the "Art of the 'Look'". A technique she read about only a week earlier in Cosmo.
Little did she know I was so NOT looking for a hookup.
As we finished our drinks, and my hour was about up, Peggy looked directly at me and announced, "We're going to Chasens now. Leslie will ride with you. Renee will ride with me."
Yes ma'am, BITCH. I thought.
Chasens was a nightclub. In a Holiday Inn. Chasens was the kind of place that always turned a good night bad, a bad night worse.
Chasens sucked. And Chasens blew.
Ah crap. Anywhere but Chasens.
5/24/2005 08:29:00 PM
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