Old friends are the best friends

our friends from high school - shabbie, victor and shabbie's cousin, megan, are visiting us this week. we pretty much all grew up together from middle school (some even from earlier in elementary school), and have been friends through our awkward phases, silly high school drama, four years of college in different parts of the country, and post-college/quarter-life crisis until now. with these friends, we can just pick up where we left off any time and have a ton of fun doing absolutely nothing.

we were at a pub in chelsea last night when shabbie spotted a cute guy in black on the other end of the bar. granted it was dark in the room and the guy was at least 50 ft away with about twenty people in our line of vision, but we were on our second drink and he was pretty to look at. somehow looking turned into giggling, which then lead to shabbie and floria walking across the bar to talk to him. victor and i applauded their bravery, but were disappointed when they sat down at a table next to him instead of actually going over to talk to him and his friends. by now, vic and i thought maybe flo and shabs just need a little encouragement, so we called the bartender over, asked her what the guy in black at the other end of the bar had been drinking all night, ordered a vodka lemonade, sent it over to him and said it was from "the girl in grey" (did i mention floria was wearing a grey dress?). needless to say, a series of messily-scribbled napkin notes were passed back and forth (the bartender must have thought we were in middle school), laughter ensued, more drinks were consumed, and at last! "the girl in grey" and her friend, shabbie, went over to talk to "the cute guy in black" and his friends.

if we were living in a sitcom, the story would have ended with floria and shabbie having witty conversations with the two guys across the bar and a possible date or at least a potential friendship would have developed. but of course with our luck, the guys across the bar barely spoke any english, were out-of-towners from norway, and were not very good charades players.

it was fun, nonetheless, and quite hilarious for vic and me to witness, although i think i'm no longer on top of flo's list of wing women.