| Tonight..well, it was just a weird night. To really explain this it would require some information on other people. I work at TGI Friday's right, so a friend I've made there is this guy named Chris. Now Chris is dating a girl named Bridget. Chris is a great guy, he does a lot for her. So Bridget's car has been broken down for sometime now, so she's been using Chris' car. Her battery is dead, so, it's like what, 40 bucks to fix it. So anyway, back to tonight.
I went to my parents to eat dinner to spend a little time with my mom. I left and I got a call from Brian, a friend I used to work with at Subway. Brian wants to work with me at TGI Friday's, so I decided to go in and schedule an interview for him while I was on my way home. I stopped in got what I needed to do done and asked if Chris needed a ride home. He said he did and that he was getting pissed at Bridget. He worked a double shift today and ended up spending about 5 hours sitting up there because he had no car and he was waiting on her. He got cut on his morning shift at 1pm and sat around until 5pm to come back on. Then he was waiting to leave after his night shift for a while. So I said sure I'd give him a ride. He had been calling Bridget throughout the day but she wasn't answering her phone so he decided not to answer his.
We pulled up to his apartment and he didn't have a key because Bridget had his keys and of course, she wasn't home. So he called her, and she got pissed at him for not answering his phone because she said she had been waiting on him to get off work while she was at her parents house. So, we sat in my car and just we were just talking. Bridget pulls up and parks a few spots down from us. I asked Chris if he wanted to get out and he said no not yet. Bridget goes inside and calls Chris' cell, she asks where he is and he said outside in my car talking with me. This was at about 10:30pm. We sat in there talking about people we know/knew and just the new people we meet at work and how so many of them just lie to fit in, or sound cool, or impressive and about how much it irritated us.
At around 10:50 a lady got into the car next to mine, she slammed her door into mine pretty hard. She didn't know we were in the car. I started laughing because well, I just don't care. Chris got kind of annoyed, he started talking to her through the window, you know, talking trash even though she can't hear him. I said don't worry about it man and he said well I have to, what if it was my car?
11:00 or so, Chris' cell rings again, Bridget is wondering when he's coming inside and he said he didn't know, we were just hanging out talking. He hung up and asked me if I wanted to go inside and I said not really, I didn't feel comfortable going in if she was pissed off at him because it's just..not comfortable being between a couple who's pissed. He said yeah good call and so we just went back to talking. We continued talking for a while.
12:54, a cars headlights grabs my attention in the mirror, I turn my head to see it parking, the guy was pulling into the spot next to Chris' car, he was parking in reverse and he turned his headlights off before he had finished parking. I noticed it, thought it was pretty damn strange, I mean..I usually turn my headlights off once I'm in the spot or stopped or something..it just was weird to me. We kept talking and about a minute later we hear a car alarm going off. I think, what a dumbfuck, he hit Chris' car. Chris jumps out of my car, as he does care about his car, and I just sat there because I didn't think much of it. I hear Chris scream, "HEY!" in a very pissed off voice, and the car drove off fast. I jump out of my car, and start sprinting full speed in the other direction of Chris. I ran out of the apartment complex to try to get the plates but I didn't see it.
I walked back and I was out of breath, I heard Chris talking so I was thinking the car I saw might not have been the one that drove off. I was wrong. Chris was on his phone, and then I saw his car. Some fuck smashed his window in and stole his radar detector, about 150 dollar value plus the window. So Chris hops in my car and I drive after this guy, hoping he might double back or something I don't know, I was just hoping to get him. Well, that failed, so we headed back to his place to wait for the police. After the cop tried to find some finger prints and failed we went inside to clean the mess that was in Chris' car.
At this time, we were both so pissed because we didn't react right when the alarm went off, we just sat there for a second or two, and that would have made the difference. So we swept the glass into the sewer next to his car, and got most of the chunks out of his door. The cop had mentioned taping the window incase it rained, and of course..it starts raining, it was more a light drizzle. We grabbed some trash bags and tape, after taping the bags up the tape started sliding because it was wet, so we got a different type of tape that was stronger and it stuck a little better.
All along this time, Bridget is pissed at Chris for sitting in the car with me for hours and it's 2:30 in the morning. Chris and I went outside to get the rest of his valuables out of the car. I mentioned IHoP and he said sure, he wasn't ready to go to sleep, we invited Bridget but she didn't want to go. So we're driving to IHoP and Chris and Bridget are on the phone, she's still mad at him for not spending time with her. (Why didn't she go is beyond me). Once they got off the phone we were almost to IHoP and he said something like what else can go wrong tonight. I said, well IHoP could be closed on it's one day of the year. We pull up, and the parking lot is empty but the lights are on, I'm thinking, expected, who the fuck goes to IHoP at 3 in the morning on a Monday. When we open the doors there's a sign on the door, "The kitchen is closed for cleaning, we are serving hot soups and salads." It was one of those moments where you just have to fucking laugh.
We sat at IHoP and just talked about the sequence of events and how they worked out. I mean..what if Brian didn't ask me to get him a job today, I would have never gone to work, and never given Chris a ride home and we wouldn't have been there to stop that asshat from taking more than just his radar detector. Or maybe Bridget would have parked in a different spot if my car wasn't there. Or, if Bridget had her car fixed Chris might have parked in a different spot where the windows weren't so easily accessible. And just the way Bridget was so pissed at Chris for nothing he did, when in my opinion, he's the one who should be pissed. IHoP's kitchen being closed. Our waiter saying, "Had you guys waited 30 minutes you could have had real food! The kitchen is back open." The lady hitting my car with her door and Chris getting pissed and saying "That could have been my car." The rain after the cop said it. The fact that we didn't think of the covered parking until after we taped bags up on his window and even tried to use magnets to hold those fucking bags up. The odds, what are the odds, that of all the cars, on all the nights, that we would have been sitting there in my car just talking and smoking cigarettes. And the things we were talking about, about how people seem to just be getting worse with trust, and lies. It was just, a fucking weird night. And a big fuck you to the asshat who broke Chris' window. It's now 5:37, I am going to bed, fuck, what a night. |
