3/31/08

FR: Poker & Flu

Setting: Day after my last FR(3 numbers in 30 minutes)

Threw a poker night with the guys at my place, we all dress up planning to go sarging later in the night.

Early in the game, I start feeling cold, and tired. I shrug it off, and open me up another beer and continue betting chips hard!

I sneeze, bloody hell. In the next 30 minutes, I get a cold, then a slight fever and I'm all puffy in the face and eyes. I'm not going sarging like this!

I take a handful of flu pills and c-vitamins, and apply face cream. That's better, I look somewhat like myself.....just blow your nose once in a while, kiddo.

4 of us decide to hit the town, and I take a ride in another car and plan to meet them at a bar downtown. I get there first, and call them....they stopped to buy smokes and will be there in 10 minutes.....leaving me standing alone in a crowded bar, no buddies or girls I know around, and feeling stuffed up, cold, weak and sober. So I walk to the bar after faking a phone call.

HB8: Hey, you waiting for a beer? ::looks up at me smiling::

She's a part of a mixed 3 set, with her are UGMidget and Mr. MaleModel. We're all standing by the bar.
I put on a huge smile and look them all in the eye
Me: No, they haven't served me yet.

HB8: No I'm offering, we just won 10 beers at the wheel of fortune! Want one? ::brushes her hair and smiles up at me::

For me, this counts as 2 major IOI's from her. I engage.

Me: Hey thanks, most appreciated! So how do you all know each other?
HB8: ::Points to her UG friend and the guy and says something about them all being friends::
Me: ::I put my fist out towards the guy, befriending him immediately.:: What's up dude, these are some really cool girls you've got here.

He smiles and nods, but then takes his right hand and puts it around HB8's back, stroking it. I think he might be getting territorial, so I look at her for reaction and she doesn't mind. That means couple. I back off.

Me: Well guys, thanks again for the beer, but I have to go back to my friends. ::raise a toast::

I eject not so gracefully with the guy looking at me smirking.

I walk to the other end of the bar, wishing and hoping I know someone there. Because now I feel so sick, that my frame is collapsing and I need some company.
I feel woozy, this is no good......meh, I suck it up and stop complaining.
I walk past a table, where my ex-LTR is sitting with her friend, and two AFC's. She gives me a polite awkward smile, then a nod and a real smile when she sees I'm not awkward around her.

I walk away however.

My friends arrive and we go to the next place, I'm feeling terrible at this point. I try and regain some composure.
My friend spots a set he wants, and I wing him. Pretty easy, I just keep her talking about how she knows her friend, what they've been doing. She was easily distracted.

They both leave and we go get a beer and sit down, I get a text message from HBTaxi. (See http://www.venusianarts.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=10081)

She wants to meet me, I tell her where I am. She responds with "ok, be right there "
My wing has isolated his earlier target, and they are making out on the sofa. Me and our two AFC buddies sit around talking while I wait for her.
In 15 minutes, my ride says "I'm leaving...want a ride?"

I think it over....I'm getting hot, I feel a fever coming on strong, my sinuses are blocked, I'm woozy.....this is no way to sarge. I admit defeat, "yeah, let's go home"

I walk outside and call HBTaxi, as soon as I dial she grabs my arm. She's in the queue. "Hi !!!!!!!!"
I turn to face the group of women she's with.
"That's him!" she calls out. They all turn to look at me. Thank god my frame was still up. "Hey ladies"

They all want me to come with them back inside, they like me, tell me how gutsy and cool I was getting their friend's number.
I look at my friends....think it over, then cover up a sneeze. No, I have to go home! I'll pass out soon.

I run into a humorous routine, telling them how silly it feels sneezing on the dancefloor and that I regret having to go home, but I have to save my health. They laugh and pat me and tell me to go home and under a blanket. I get a hug from HBTaxi, didn't even try a k-close because I was contagious. lol

I walk down the street with my friends, and my phone rings. It's HBDress (http://www.venusianarts.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=9292). She wants to meet, and I barely get to say yes, when she hangs up.

I look at my phone...wtf. Then I hear her calling my name, she's across the street. I run over, tell my friends to wait a second and I pull her into a hug, and she gives me a kiss on the "gray area"

We talk a bit, and I tell her I have to leave, give her the same speech as HBTaxi, and she pulls me into a hug "aww baby....go home and rest"

So I do.....thinking, what's next....another girl that wants to meet?
No I get to go home.

Update: Now I sit here the next evening, running a high fever and a terrible cold. I've been running a great comfort game on HBDress AND HBTaxi on msn all evening, since they both want to keep me company while I'm sick.

Lesson learn from all of this: Stop the sarge addiction and sometimes STAY HOME !

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