Why I Am Not a Tequila Ho
Here's how I ended my last post:
Here are my current stats:
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Personal Profile
Handle: OEMPER
Sex: M
Member Since: 2/19/2004
Last Played: 6/24/2005
Career Games: 102
Career Points: 94800
Home Location: Tequila Hoppers and Grill
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Which, incidentally, appears on the display as "TEQUILA HO." So, when I was number 2 in the entire NTN network, I was OEMPER...TEQUILA HO....
But I'm not a Tequila Ho.
Later in the week (Friday, to be exact), I went to the theatre rehearsal for our new production. (I missed last week's first rehearsal because a week ago I was in New York, on Broadway, seeing "The Lion King.") Afterwards, a group of us retired to a pizza place for beer and food. Because it's a children's theatre group, a mixture of parents and kids were there. (My own daughter was not there, since she's still on vacation.) When the pizza place closed, the parents in the party reverted to teenage mode:
LET'S GO TO A BAR!
YEAH, LET'S GO TO THE HI BROW!
NAH, WE CAN'T TAKE THE KIDS IN THERE.
I KNOW! R---'S PARENTS AREN'T HOME! WE CAN GO TO THEIR HOUSE!
YEAH, I'LL BUY SOME BEER AND TEQUILA!
AND THEY GOT A JACUZZI!
COOL!
So all of the adults and the kids drove off to R---'s parents' house. While the kids (all of whom were elementary school age) tried out their dance moves (including breakdancing) to the JACK-FM playlist, the adults sat out back and ate chips & salsa and drank beer & tequila.
Well, not all of us drank tequila.
To be exact, I think only three of us drank tequila. And I wasn't one of them, for two reasons:
- I had already been drinking beer at the pizza place, and figured that I'd better stick to beer. I had an unpleasant experience at college when I mixed some drinks. I can't remember the experience any more, but I do remember that it was unpleasant.
- Even if I hadn't drank any beer Friday evening, I don't go out of my way to drink tequila, even in small amounts. I still remember a bachelor party in Vegas back in 1988 or 1989. Actually, the bachelor party started on the road to Vegas. In the late afternoon, we left Upland, California in a mobile home. The designated driver piloted the mobile home to Vegas, and we drank. In fact, some of us (again, not me) had a tequila drinking contest on the way to Vegas. And one of the guys won. I still remember seeing him in Vegas, sitting in the parking lot outside of the mobile home, at about 4 in the morning, unable to go anywhere. (This was back when there was a huge parking lot next to Caesar's Palace; we parked the mobile home there, and most of us then roamed the casinos and the strip.) Anyway, the "winner's" experience didn't exactly encourage me to drink large amounts, or even small amounts, of tequila.
So, back to Friday night when a sixth grader is trying out his disco and breakdancing moves, R--- and his wife S----- and J---- are drinking tequila and beer, and the rest of us are drinking beer.
Around midnight the power suddenly went out.
I have no explanation as to why the power went out. It was pretty cool at midnight, so the air conditioners weren't overloading the electrical network. And the power outage was localized to about one block.
But we ended up calling it a night. And I was not a Tequila Ho.
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