2004-05-01
There's a lot of things that are sucky about working weekends, but sometimes expense account dining can make up for all of it. Like walking into a "fine dining" restaurant wearing black Chucks, blue jeans and a black T-shirt with your equally well dressed coworker, get some weird looks from the staff and patrons, then purchase most of the menu over the next 2-3 hours. Also there was an old woman (a "broad" actually - she looked like she had lived her life with a lusty sense of adventure and kicked the crap out of her share of weak-willed suitors and never took any shit from anyone) with an eye patch and we made up stories about how she got it. Possibilities: As a prostitute in Marrakesh during the war, a slimy GI tried to short her and lost her eye in the ensuing fight (she said the soldier got a purple heart for his injuries). Punishment for putting out another guy's eye (bar fight in Istanbul, I assume). Tractor/fishing accident. Or a bet.
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