Deja vu all over again... with a twist.
Dec. 8th, 2001 02:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpSo I had an experience I haven't had in a LONG time. Years. Several years. (The wedding ring will do that to you, I guess.)
[The setting: a rather large, rather nice sports bar in the suburbs of Columbus. A live band is playing 80s music. A boy, around 24-27 years of age wearing jeans, a shirt, and a leather jacket, approaches carrying a pint of Guinness. A young man and young woman, looking vaguely related, stand against a wooden post. They also carry pints.]
C: Hi. Are you together?
J: Umm... well... [looks at R]
R: [smiles] That's my sister.
C: Oh. Hey, cool. Hey. You wanna dance?
R: You should totally go. I mean, that took serious balls to come over here and ask.
J: Umm, sure, I'll go dance, yeah.
C: How long have you had that tongue bar?
J: [realizing where this is going rather quickly] About six years.
C: Oh, cool. Hey, what does your shirt say?
J: 'i lie to girls.'
C: Oh. [pause] Why does it say that?
J: Umm, I'm a lesbian.
C: Oh. [pause] Oh. So umm...
J: Sorry. It's cool. You still wanna dance?
C: Umm...
J: What's your name?
C: Chris.
J: [offering a hand] I'm Jude. What's up?
C: [shaking hand] Umm...
J: You wanna dance?
C: I'm sorry. I wish I'd, like, seen the shirt before I came over.
J: It's cool.
C: I'm gonna, like, go now.
J: [to Rick] Was it something I said?
R: [laughs]
J: I was about to tell him I was married, too.
Dude. That was the first time since college I've been almost picked up by a boy in a bar. I mean, sure, I've chatted people up in bars, and there was flirting involved, but never the whole 'this is obviously a pick-up' thing. Hee. And it's the first time I've ever used the 'sorry, i'm a lesbian' defense and totally 100% meant it. It was a good feeling.
Tonight Baga said, "You know, I'm so glad you're gay. I called it when you were 15." Now, my brother is full of shit, and I know this. He likes to look smart. I can totally deal with that, though, if he's talking about me all accepting-like. Yeah. Besides, I got him, later, to correct himself. "Okay, so I wasn't sure that you liked girls when you were 15. But I knew that you didn't really like boys." Hee.
I don't usually like it when people use the word 'gay' to refer to me. I mean, I attribute 'gay' to homoesexual men, and I don't see myself reflected in that. But when my brother is saying it, it's all good. Apparently, he's told some of our circle of friends (the more clueless ones that need a kick in the pants about things): Elsinore and Dory. Hee. I am still giggling about Chris though. My new boyfriend. At 1:15ish, he /finally/ got some girls out on the dancefloor. Good boy.
Dude. Out of ALL of the people he could have approached at Flannagan's. (The Reaganomics were there, YAY!) Hee. I was likely the only queer there. It was so funny that I had to call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kungfoogirl and kieron. Foo didn't answer the phone, though. (Good luck tomorrow morning, cutie!) Kie got an earful. I don't think I've ever heard her laugh so hard.
7 December 2001. A night (and a conversation) I will /never/ forget. HEE HEE!
[The setting: a rather large, rather nice sports bar in the suburbs of Columbus. A live band is playing 80s music. A boy, around 24-27 years of age wearing jeans, a shirt, and a leather jacket, approaches carrying a pint of Guinness. A young man and young woman, looking vaguely related, stand against a wooden post. They also carry pints.]
C: Hi. Are you together?
J: Umm... well... [looks at R]
R: [smiles] That's my sister.
C: Oh. Hey, cool. Hey. You wanna dance?
R: You should totally go. I mean, that took serious balls to come over here and ask.
J: Umm, sure, I'll go dance, yeah.
C: How long have you had that tongue bar?
J: [realizing where this is going rather quickly] About six years.
C: Oh, cool. Hey, what does your shirt say?
J: 'i lie to girls.'
C: Oh. [pause] Why does it say that?
J: Umm, I'm a lesbian.
C: Oh. [pause] Oh. So umm...
J: Sorry. It's cool. You still wanna dance?
C: Umm...
J: What's your name?
C: Chris.
J: [offering a hand] I'm Jude. What's up?
C: [shaking hand] Umm...
J: You wanna dance?
C: I'm sorry. I wish I'd, like, seen the shirt before I came over.
J: It's cool.
C: I'm gonna, like, go now.
J: [to Rick] Was it something I said?
R: [laughs]
J: I was about to tell him I was married, too.
Dude. That was the first time since college I've been almost picked up by a boy in a bar. I mean, sure, I've chatted people up in bars, and there was flirting involved, but never the whole 'this is obviously a pick-up' thing. Hee. And it's the first time I've ever used the 'sorry, i'm a lesbian' defense and totally 100% meant it. It was a good feeling.
Tonight Baga said, "You know, I'm so glad you're gay. I called it when you were 15." Now, my brother is full of shit, and I know this. He likes to look smart. I can totally deal with that, though, if he's talking about me all accepting-like. Yeah. Besides, I got him, later, to correct himself. "Okay, so I wasn't sure that you liked girls when you were 15. But I knew that you didn't really like boys." Hee.
I don't usually like it when people use the word 'gay' to refer to me. I mean, I attribute 'gay' to homoesexual men, and I don't see myself reflected in that. But when my brother is saying it, it's all good. Apparently, he's told some of our circle of friends (the more clueless ones that need a kick in the pants about things): Elsinore and Dory. Hee. I am still giggling about Chris though. My new boyfriend. At 1:15ish, he /finally/ got some girls out on the dancefloor. Good boy.
Dude. Out of ALL of the people he could have approached at Flannagan's. (The Reaganomics were there, YAY!) Hee. I was likely the only queer there. It was so funny that I had to call
kungfoogirl and kieron. Foo didn't answer the phone, though. (Good luck tomorrow morning, cutie!) Kie got an earful. I don't think I've ever heard her laugh so hard.7 December 2001. A night (and a conversation) I will /never/ forget. HEE HEE!
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Date: 2001-12-07 11:26 pm (UTC)Glad you had fun. =)
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Date: 2001-12-08 07:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-08 03:36 am (UTC)Some day, we've got to sit down and talk about Baga and this. Don't get me wrong, I love the guy, but as I'm reading this I'm also restraining myself from shouting "Amen, sister." :-)
Of Course!
Date: 2001-12-08 05:42 am (UTC)smart=sexy.
nerdgirls are way smoochable.
=)
Re: Of Course!
Date: 2001-12-08 07:39 am (UTC)And yes, we all like to look smart. Sure thing. No one does it with more gusto than my dear older brother. :)
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Date: 2001-12-08 07:39 am (UTC)Hee. I sure do love that boy. But he makes me laugh.
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Date: 2001-12-08 05:45 am (UTC)DUDE! Megan woke me when she got up for work and I couldn't go back to sleep and the OSU connection is down. Call me when you are ready to venture out.
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Date: 2001-12-08 07:40 am (UTC)Hey! I resemble that remark! =P There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with my ways of expressing affection. :)