Today is February 5. Now for a tale of Friday night. I met up with Molly
and her friends John and Josh outside the Val-Air. By the time we got
inside the first guy, Al Madrigal
was already going. He was pretty good. He was kind of emceeing the whole
thing. He did a bit about a mexican strip joint that I recognized from
that
cartoon show on
Comedy Central. I enjoyed the completely random ripping on
Colfax. I think he was trying to talk about some crappy druggy part
of San Jose and he wanted to relate it to some town near DSM and some
ppls shouted out Colfaxx. Then there was a gal called Lynn,
what can I say she tried ;-) I think if Molly and I would have known she
was
'that' Lynn,
there could have been trouble. Stalker like delusions,
you understand. But all was well. I did like the part about the solid
gold jet ski.
For drinks we were having
Jager
Bombs, which I had never had before
but were good. (ed - just red bull & jager over ice in a plastic cup -
no fancy shotglass). Finally Mitch came on. He was wearing a leather
jacket, 2
shirts, jeans, and smoky plastic glasses. He seemed v. energetic, I think
he felt the intensity of the room. At one point he made his road mgr. get
on stage and be his "hype man" i.e. saying "yeah yeah!" after everything
he said. Then Mitch left the stage and said the jokes from the side of
the stage with the mgr. guy moving his lips and gesturing and stuff. It
was cool. There was SO much new material. But he did lots of the
classics too. Molly and I and her friends are all pretty addicted so we
would start laughing at the setup. I would have to bite my tongue to not
say the joke along. And yes he did the one about koalas! Molly
and I were sort of kicking ourselves for not getting one of the
iTalk voice recorders for the show. Also I should mention Molly
wore her Reese's shirt in honor of the Reese's joke, and I wore my
Hoosier Racing Tire jersey in honor of "race car passenger" a/k/a
"you really like Tide." I just hope he had a nice time performing
in the Dee Moines and can come back next time!!
So during work I had decided that I wanted to go out for pancakes after
the show. Molly and I drove Josh home (he was being weird) and then
stopped at the Windsor Heights Hy-Vee to go to the bathroom. In their
produce dept, they had all the fruit and vegetable balloons that some
Hy-Vees have. I explained to Molly how I had always wanted one of the
pineapple ones. So she grabbed one for me, as well as the Apple one
(it had a bite out of it!) and paid for them at the checkout. Then we met
up with John, Tom, and Seria at the Perkins. Oh I forgot to mention those
2 meeting up with us at the show too. I guess they go there pretty
regularly cuz the servers knew them. Our server even knew a Mitch joke!
So we loved him for that. Being in a comedy mood, we were also
all quoting Napoleon Dynamite. "Your mom goes to college."
At Perkins, someone decided we should go to Rocky Horror at
Billy Joe's
Pitcher Show. By the time we got there the movie was already in full
swing. We just hung out in the back and chilled. Technically I would
have been a Rocky 'virgin' but I'm guessing I was safe for coming in late.
Seria knew a lot of the dialogue talking things. There was a guy I guess
being virgin-tormented that came over and he had writing all over his
face, and we had to give him some spare change.
So at this point it's important to mention that my battery light had been
on since I drove home from work on Thursday. I was hoping to make it
until Saturday morning so I could go down to Quality Ford and have them
work on it. After Rocky, I could tell things were grim. The Dash lights
were super dim, and my windows could hardly roll up/down. I had to drive
Molly back to her car at the Val, and my car died out at about Ashworth
and 8th. I think a cop saw us run a red light, so she pulled us over. I
think if she didn't make us stop I could have coasted down the hill to the
Val parking lot, but it was kind of a relief to stop and have the cop
there so no one would hit me. LUCKILY she didn't make me do the
breathalyzer. Even though hours and pancakes had passed, I was probably a
little iffy. She was cool - Martha, I think her name was. She called a
towtruck for me. They charged 40 bucks to tow my car from 7th and
Ashworth to 8th and Office Park. But I was in no position to haggle
;-)
So we had to get all our important stuff out of the taurus and have the
cop drive us the rest of the way to the Val. I asked if we could put our
balloons in the cop car, or if her car was too tough to have balloons.
She said it was OK, and then I mused aloud that "criminals don't get to
keep their balloons." So then Molly drove me back to the apt, and I went
to sleep. Overall i think the night was a success. Only I was out 40
bucks for the towing. They were supposed to leave a note on the keys and
have the service ppls call me, except I think there was a breakdown there
so I called them at about 9:30. Molly said she can drive me to work
today, but I think they might be done today so I can have it for Sunday.
And in hindsight, it might be worth 40 bucks to have the car towed there
and so I can just sleep in today and not having to worry about getting up
and gettingn the car down there on my own, heh.
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