11-22-2005, 06:31 AM
More than past time to ressurect this thread from the old forum.
So, I'm at some fancy-shmancy dinner event, accompanying the Drunk Monk because the Webmaster has loaned me to him for the evening.
hock: I spend most of the dinner talking to some character actress at the same table that I know I know from somewhere, but can't remember. As the evening is ending, I notice the Drunk Monk is gone, and I don't have a ride home. :? But he left me his credit card so I can pay for dinner. 
For some reason I think that's not going to work - I can't sign DM's signature so I can't use it, I'll have to pay on my own. :? But I only have a $100 bill, and they don't accept that - it needs to be a smaller bill. So I give them my credit card, and then leave to make change -- I'll need it for the cab I'll take home -- they won't take a $100 bill either. I leave wherever the event was and start walking (for miles and into some unrecognizable and bad neighborhood for some reason) -- and stop at some corner deli place and they give me change, but it's all ones or fives and so I have this giant wad of cash that I have to try to hide so that no one will try to rob me. I walk some more -- the neighborhoods are getting worse and worse and darker. I've got a cell phone but I don't know who to call to get a cab. I get grabbed and held by some street thug who I have to hit and bite to escape, I'm running and cursing myself for wearing stupid heels that make it hard to run away... 
I know; issues.
But DM looked terrific in a tux.
So, I'm at some fancy-shmancy dinner event, accompanying the Drunk Monk because the Webmaster has loaned me to him for the evening.
hock: I spend most of the dinner talking to some character actress at the same table that I know I know from somewhere, but can't remember. As the evening is ending, I notice the Drunk Monk is gone, and I don't have a ride home. :? But he left me his credit card so I can pay for dinner. For some reason I think that's not going to work - I can't sign DM's signature so I can't use it, I'll have to pay on my own. :? But I only have a $100 bill, and they don't accept that - it needs to be a smaller bill. So I give them my credit card, and then leave to make change -- I'll need it for the cab I'll take home -- they won't take a $100 bill either. I leave wherever the event was and start walking (for miles and into some unrecognizable and bad neighborhood for some reason) -- and stop at some corner deli place and they give me change, but it's all ones or fives and so I have this giant wad of cash that I have to try to hide so that no one will try to rob me. I walk some more -- the neighborhoods are getting worse and worse and darker. I've got a cell phone but I don't know who to call to get a cab. I get grabbed and held by some street thug who I have to hit and bite to escape, I'm running and cursing myself for wearing stupid heels that make it hard to run away... I know; issues.
But DM looked terrific in a tux.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.