Running Red Bull

Testicles 1, 2, 3

Testicles 1, 2, 3

Is this thing on?

Yes … they’ve brought back kareoke at the bowling alley on Wednesday night.

Long, long time ago …

I can still remember how the music …

Used to make me smile.

Well, it really wasn’t that long ago … about three or four years I’d say.

And I’m not sure it was smiling that people were doing, but more like outright laughter.

At me.

Back in the early stages of The UnUsual Suspects … they used to have kareoke at the bowling on Wednesday night.

And we’d stay … and take over the bar.

We’d be the only ones singing for the most part …

A rotation of Singer, Hottie, Me and then all of The UnUsual Suspects at the time performing under our stage name of The InBreeds.

Different times … different days.

Same behavior. 🙂

But they stopped having that a couple of years ago … I guess because it was primarily just us at the bar … and they couldn’t justify the cost of kareoke … knowing full well we’d stay and drink anyways without it.

Bastards.

Anyways … for some reason it’s back in the mix,

And Singer and Hottie took control of the stage Wednesday night.

It was only the three of us representing The UnUsual Suspects in the bar this night …

Singer, Hottie and Me.

Sister had to leave early.

And Miss Daisy had an alternate engagement … yeah, like anything could be more important that us ?? LOL

For a change, I didn’t take the microphone once that night …

But instead watched both Singer and Hottie try out new songs,

Which they did masterfully !!

Personal favorite moment … Hottie singing Rock This Town while Singer and I danced to exhaustion … well, at least I was exhausted … I really think you guys should still let me take up social smoking if I’m going to be this out of shape anyways !!! 🙂

Now … it was kind of a quiet night last week …

In fact, even the other team commented …

“You guys aren’t drinking as much as you normally do, are you feeling okay?”

Well … that’s probably because Miss Daisy wasn’t there !!! 🙂

But we did get a surprise visit from Shaft !!!

Just after the first game started, out of the blue …

All of the sudden I saw Singer’s face light up and she exclaimed with a smile …

“Hey Kool-Aid !!!”

I grabbed the pitcher of beer just as it was about to bounce off the table … and turned to see Shaft ambling towards us !!! 🙂

So nice !! It was just like old times … well, not quite … Shaft … (though at bowling now … he’s referred to as Straight Shaft) … was sitting where Miss Daisy sits, which is where Hottie sat last year … Singer sits where Shaft used to sit … Hottie sits where Singer used to sit … and Sister and I sit where we’ve always sat. Got it? Good … because it’s not important ! 🙂

Anyways … it was a really relaxing, mild night … just easy catching up on times …

Oh sure … there were a few moments …

“He touched my back fat !”

“She got her hand caught between the balls.”

“I barely made it to work before I had to change my tampon … again.”

“… well, I don’t have balls.”

But it was rather uneventful …

Until …

Sister got this brilliant idea that we should smuggle in some of the Red Bull she has in her trunk … (she’s driving around with a case of it in her truck … I told you she likes the stuff !!)

Just buy shots of Jager straight up …

And use her Red Bull as our own mixer !!!

We’ll save money !!!

Brilliant idea … and a bit rebellious.

Sounds fun.

So Sister gave Shaft her keys …

And Shaft was going to go pick up the goods …

Be the Red Bull Pimp.

He goes out to the car …

And comes back in 5 minutes later with Red Bull stuffed in his pockets (that’s NOT code for gawd’s sake !!)

Though … what’s that … a look of fright ??

“You won’t believe what I did !” Shaft asserts.

“You’re right, we won’t. Do you have the goods?”

“Yeah. No … I’m serious … I locked Sister’s keys in her trunk.”

“Whatever, we don’t believe you … nice try.”

“Seriously,” Shaft began, as he slid cans of Red Bull into Singer’s pwus under the table, “I’ve got A.D.D. … I must have set the keys down in her trunk when I went to load up the cans in my pockets. I don’t have them … do you have a hidden key someplace … a spare?”

“Nice. We don’t believe you.”

“No we don’t. Hey, Drink Bringer … we need four shots of Jager?Thanks … oh yeah, may we have four empy glasses too?”

“I’m not kidding !!!! I locked her keys in the trunk !!!”

“Sure … sure. Give her the keys !”

“I’m not kidding !!! Really … do you have a spare at home … I’ll go get them.”

“Here you go … four shot of Jager … and four empty glasses … that’s $18.00.”

“Here’s a spare key … I have it from a few weeks ago when I lost them myself.”

“Thanks … be right back.”

“Hey … what did we just save ourselves smuggling Red Bull … only like a $1.50 ?”

“Yeah … something like that … I’m not sure it was worth it,” Singer said, pouring the Red Bull she had hidden in her pwus into the glasses and passing them around to each of us.

“Hey … see … here are her keys,” Shaft said, returning with the original set and the spare Sister had given him.

“He’s not kidding, the key’s been outside … it’s cold.”

And so we consumed our Jager and smuggled Red Bull combo … all keys found … and with the company of Shaft enjoyed.

For a mild, quiet night … it was nice that we still found a way to make it interesting.

And as Singer, Hottie and Sister all said …

It was really nice seeing Shaft.