{"id":178,"date":"2016-12-29T18:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-12-29T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:52:31","slug":"new-years-eve-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Eve Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had two very memorable New Year\u2019s Eves in the last few years.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The first was when I was dating a woman whose birthday was 12\/31, and I was being laid off from my job that day.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>My coworkers held a \u201cgood bye\u201d happy hour, because we used every excuse to throw a happy hour, and it was back when I would get drunk, so we had a lot of fun.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The future XGF and I got good and sloshed and headed back to her place.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>As midnight drew close, we were\u2026um\u2026.doing what you do to celebrate, especially if you are drunk.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>She said, \u201cHold on, I need to get something,\u201d and left the bedroom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After five minutes, I called out, asking if everything was ok.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Got no reply.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Got dressed and went out to look around the apartment and she was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Figured that maybe she forgot something in the car or whatever and turned on the TV to wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

And wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 15 minutes, I realized that if I left, I\u2019d be leaving her apartment unlocked, and while it wasnt\u2019 a terrible apartment building, it wasn\u2019t exactly a great one. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, I waited.<\/span><\/p>\n

And waited.<\/span><\/p>\n

And after an hour, she came back.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>I asked where she\u2019d gone, and she said, \u201cI wanted to get some weed.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt took an hour?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted me to smoke up with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I took this as my cue to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later, she asked to get coffee, and me being a forgiving sort, I agreed, wondering if it was just a situation where she\u2019d gotten too high to remember to come back, she had other issues going on, etc.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>We met at a coffee place, and started talking and she talked around the issue.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>When I finally asked why she left FOR AN HOUR on New Year\u2019s Eve, her reply was \u201cYou know how much I love weed!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My reply was, \u201cI think we\u2019re done here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone overheard it and posted it on a \u201cOverheard in Minneapolis\u201d website. <\/span><\/p>\n

THE NEXT YEAR I was dating a woman who didn\u2019t like watching old movies.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>In fact, when we would have movie nights, she said, \u201cNo movies made before 2000.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Fine, I guess\u2026you know, the things we do for love and all.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>New Year\u2019s Eve, we are both pretty exhausted as we worked at the same group home, and she had three kids, so we just wanted a quiet night.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I made dinner, she rented movies and we settled in to watch them\u2026and by 10 pm, she was asleep on my lap.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the movie she\u2019d chosen was \u201cEat, Love, Pray\u201d which is one of the most cloying, clich\u00e9d things I had seen in ages, while TCM was having a Marx Brothers marathon.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The remove was ALMOST out of reach, so I very quietly and moving slowly so as not to wake her up, got the remote, turned off the DVD and turned on Animal Crackers.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>At 10:30, Duck Soup, the greatest comedy in history began, and I watched it with a clenched jaw making sure I didn\u2019t laugh out loud and wake her up.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have any idea how hard it is NOT to laugh at Duck Soup?<\/span><\/p>\n

The move ended around midnight, and she started to stir, so I quickly changed the channel to something I knew she\u2019d want to watch, and when she woke up, she what I did while she was sleeping\u2026and I said I was letter her get some rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not that I took advantage of her being asleep to watch a movie from the 1930\u2019s that I knew she wouldn\u2019t let me watch. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have other New Year\u2019s Eve stories, but I think those two are the most recent. <\/span><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had two very memorable New Year\u2019s Eves in the last few years.\u00a0 The first was when I was dating a woman whose birthday was 12\/31, and I was being laid off from my job that day.\u00a0 My coworkers held a \u201cgood bye\u201d happy hour, because we used every excuse to throw a happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}