Wednesday’s are normally happy hour for me, but today I have chosen to go straight home after work and do a blog update.

There is a new girl at work who I have really hit it off with on a friendship level. She is from out of town so my whole goal is to be that upstanding gentleman and hopefully show her some of the fun things to do until she starts to form her own friendships outside of the work environment. The funny part is though, the moment we sat down as a group for lunch not long after she started working, I just knew straight away that this was someone who I was going to be friends with. She got my humor and can be a bit sassy, so it was destined that we would get along 🙂 There are very few people in life that I can sit one on one at a bar with, so that gives me a good measure as to the intellectual qualities that a person has should that happen, even more so that I want to do it again. If a person is interesting enough to me to keep me occupied for several hours one on one, then that is definitely someone who I want to keep in my close circle of friends.

Anyway, we had no plan other than to find a place to have a couple of drinks after work to relieve some stress. Most of the places that I go to are in Downtown New York, and we were in Midtown. We didn’t want one of those upscale Midtown joints, so we were fortunate enough to find a hole in the wall that at first glance seemed to be a Latino bar. Turns out it was pretty mixed between Latino and people from Asia, that would be the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi parts of Asia.

It all started off pretty good, other than a barmaid who insisted on cranking the music volume up to obnoxious levels when there were very few people in the joint. There was also this really drunk Indian fella who was harmless enough and somewhat fun to talk to. Well, that only lasted a short while because at one point he started dancing behind us and then proceeded to gyrate his body up against my seated friend. I was pretty fucking livid to be honest with you, and the man I once was many many years ago came to the surface.

On my vanilla blog I have a story up there where I talk about the reasons why I would never ever strike another human being again, unless it was under circumstances that were beyond my control. Well this situation was in my control, but I will be damned if a friend of mine is going to be disrespected like that. A bunch of guys at one end of the bar hassled me a bit to leave the guy alone as I approached him for a quiet word, but at the end of the bar closest to us there was a guy who had watched the whole thing. The moment I reached this Indian guy, the guy who had been watching us jumped up and intercepted me. Now I was pretty pissed but after telling me a couple of times that he would deal with it, I went back to my friend. The one guy took the Indian fella outside and came back alone so I was pretty happy that I wasn’t going to have to deal with the seething anger inside of me.

It took a while to get the comfort level back, but without that guy in there we started to get back to where we were before. At one point we headed outside for a smoke and bumped into two other bar patrons, a Pakistani guy and a Bangladeshi also having a smoke. Now these two guys were a barrel of laughs and after listening to us bitch for a while about the Indian guy, they started to lighten our moods with some really fun conversation.

Now this next part is pretty much my whole reason for posting this blog in the first place, and it really made both our nights. The Pakistani guy who was really funny looked at my friend and called her Chichi, it wasn’t until we got into work the following day that we realized how much of a compliment he had given her. He did try to explain it and the word basically means ‘Affectedly trendy and fashionable’. We all had a really good laugh about it and then he turned to me and said that I was definitely a Chacha, lol. That one was easy for them to explain to me because it means ‘Father’s Brother’. Now at first I was thinking “You cheeky sod”, mostly because I am 17 years older than my friend and the dirty old man complex hit me a bit, haha. But the thing is, the names kind of stuck and now even at work I will call her Chichi and make the comment “Who’s your Chacha?”. It was a really good end to the night and gave us many a good laugh, one that we can keep up like a little inside joke at work.

We stayed with these two guys for a while longer and laughed for a long time. Unfortunately the drunk Indian guy came back which made me pretty mad, but thankfully the company we had kept my mind off of this prick. He did try to buy the two of us drinks but I told him, and the bartenders, that under no uncertain terms was he to pay for any of our drinks. After speaking to the owner I believe he went and spoke to the guy to tell him to stay away from us.

So that was a fun story that I wanted to share with you all. Now Chichi is not only fully aware of this blog, but I have also showed her my work on video. It’s funny because at work I trust no one there enough to share my private life with them, but with Chichi I had no fear in sharing this with her, and as I expected it didn’t bother her in the least. In fact, I even know she has visited this blog to read a bit about my life, and I told her that I was writing this post with her approval. So I also know that she will come here to read this blog update.

This is one of those positive things that has come into my life recently, I really like good people and not only is Chichi a good person, but she is also someone who I want to know more about and hang out with more. Hopefully next week we will be able to sneak away from work one night and hang out again, I’m really looking forward to doing that again and the sooner the better. Even if I do feel a little bit selfish for wanting to hang out with her one on one as opposed to doing something as a group from work 🙂

Finally, Chichi was out and about on the town over the weekend and spotted this little gem in Manhattan. Being that she knows all about me, she snapped a pic with me in mind as she knew that it would be something that I would enjoy. As Chichi sent it to me tonight I figured I would post it here, enjoy 🙂 BTW, Chichi is also the girl mentioned in a post below about the friend who I gave a good swat to last week, AND, it is also her birthday in two weeks time……. so you all know what that means!! 🙂 Oh shoot, I forgot, she is going to be reading this. Never mind Chichi, I’m just teasing you 😉

I was planning on doing a ‘blog love’ post tonight, but the story above took me a little longer than I anticipated. So I will do a ‘Blog love’ post soon. I have also received the copy of Exclusive Education 2 from Clare Fonda and I will be reviewing that DVD by the weekend.