The Workermonkey

Friday, May 02, 2014

Matt Barone: amazing individual 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/02/2014 08:26:00 PM

(the last post was september?!?! balls, i'm slipping more than usual)

every now and then i start to feel like i'm an amazing individual but then my current situation knocks me back down to earth. then something innocent happens and i'm right back up there.

its been a long week and i've been running around a lot lately between work and other thing. tomorrow i need to get up early and go judge some little kids. So i came back to town after work and went down to the local bar to grab a bite and have a drink. i think i've been there 4 times this week. not all drinking (seriously, i'm slipping).

so i sat at the only open spot at the bar which happen to be between a nice middle aged lady and some local townie. i ended up striking a conversation with the older lady after she asked me what kind of scotch i was drinking. she had obviously heard my order but i entertained her anyway. she caught me off guard when her immediate follow up question was whether it was blended or single barrel. i answered correctly with a smile which caught her off guard. we kept talking and she eventually opened up that she was an executive VP at a large company here in CT, but mostly that she was now a lesbian.

i don't care about the lesbian part (not exactly easy on the eyes) so i kept asking about the business end of things. she obliged but kept injecting about the lesbian thing. it took me a minute but when i told her about having a roommate and his two kids it confused her, she didn't' take me for gay apparently but the roommate and kids part confused her (i need to get out of here).

anyway we straighten that part out and she slipped in:

"good, its too bad she's a lesbian but i know the perfect girl for you"

"she's not curious is she? sounds like fun"

best line of the night. we kept talking and she started picking my brain about climbing the corporate ladder. she really wanted me to get an MBA and it was odd but she kept stressing the fact that i need to be married to move up and that's really what they're looking for at the upper levels. they want that tie/consistency in people. i tried to stress its more about trust when you get that high but she would actually know better since shes there already. nope, she was very clear that its about the fact that there's another person in the world that doesn't think you're a total douche. her being gay didn't matter because she was in a good gay relationship with kids but it also mattered that it was a good one with kids. her point was don't settle for a bad relationship just to check that box and it might seem odd but I'm totally on the right track.

i agreed and she seem like she was a person cut from a similar cloth with a few more years of wear and tear. she continued on that she thought of her self as a bit of a match maker and that was her intention for continuing to pick my brain. apparently its obvious i'm single and she needed the entertainment for the evening. we exchanged cards and i told her to go nuts. can't hurt right?

the whole conversation left me feeling pretty good about my self. she essentially ended the conversation with reiterating that i'm amazing and that i now know what i need to do with my life. (she had 2 martini's while i was there). it was really nice to hear that there's a person out there in a position i'd eventually like to be in thinking i'm doing the right thing or at least on the right path. it was a really good ego stroke for a pit stop at the local watering hole.

Apparently, ordering salad and a scotch is the key to success.

2 comments

oh fuck balls, why is google inserting adds into my post!?!?

not cool google, not cool.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 02, 2014 8:31:00 PM  

So, did you hit that or what?

By  BB, at Tuesday, August 05, 2014 10:42:00 AM  

Post a Comment