Two Old People

First, I was just at lunch in the company cafeteria and there is this old guy who works for the company. He is a baller. He is about 70 and still super spry and active. On top of that he has really good English and his technical vocabulary (in English) is beyond mine. But the real reason he's a baller is he has an awesome laugh and whenever he speaks English he laughs. For example, one night I had gone to dinner with him and as we walked out he commented to me that in this area (near my apartment) there were a lot of 辣妹 or "lamei" (literally means spicy sister but really means a hot chick). At first I didn't understand so he just goes "Spice Girl!" and laughs really hard.

Last night I really needed a beer considering I hadn't had any for my birthday so that meant I went to the one bar I've been to before. It's called Taiwan Beer Bar since it's attached to the Taiwan Beer Brewery and the beer is pretty cheap. Almost as good as cheap cold beers is the fact that on Friday nights they have a live cover band. So I headed over there to check things out and I was able to find myself a table. The thing was the only table open was pretty big so within a few minutes I was joined by a bunch of dudes just off of work and out for some beers.

They didn't say much to me at first but with a few beers and my Chinese we started talking and they shared their food with me. I nearly wanted to cry...Chinese food and beer. The only English they could say was "Good Friend!" and "Beer" which is good enough for me, I mean that's all you really need. Well all of a sudden this 50 year old drunk woman wants to do a cheers with me but I'm out of beer so she gives me a warm one that was at her table and half-finished and orders me to chug. And I chugged it. I thought that was the end of her as she went to the next table to have a conversation about world affairs with the guy and his girlfriend.

Then she comes back and tells me "dance!" I had no intention of dancing with a drunk 50 year old who was far from attractive so I said no thanks. Seeing a good chance for something funny to happen the dudes at the table pushed me out. Well the lady takes me to the girl she had been sitting with at the table and told me to dance with the girl. I was a little worried since the chick's boyfriend is there and I told the old lady this. After a half-hearted dance (no one else in the bar was dancing), I sat back down until the old lady dragged the girl over to me.

Well after the initial awkwardness it was all good. The guy she was with was a childhood friend of hers. And after a few jokes about the old lady, the girl actually turned out to be pretty cool. In the end, I got a number out of it so it was a pretty good night, thanks to the drunk 50 year old.