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"In case you are reading this and the setting or characters in the post reflect an event you attended or the characters fits your description, behavior or utterances, please don't take it seriously as this is an exaggeration of the reality in the name of attempted art"
We get into a joint beer @180. I take my first one and tell my buddy that I have given his name as the one to be charged. We exchange giggles. Nothing is too serious. The table is painted brown and green. Brown represents business (getting high) while green represents tomorrow's comfort at whatever the cost. Today's comfort must ensure a comfortable tomorrow.
I agree with environmentalists green is clean. I mean is there a difference between pollution and hangover? The later is to the mind what the earlier is to the air. By the tone of my talk you are sure am on the brown side.
You are wrong am not only brown but the hardest brown available in fact it should be black. My rector scale is reading 5.3/500. Compare this to a green of 4.0/300. Numbers don't lie.
So. I slowly push my 5.3 as I turn out to be the story teller. Not that am a good orator but my calculation is that more stories > less sips > lower bill. This is to be balanced by a stronger stuff therefore maintaining equality or is it equity.
It works, my stories slow me down so by the second order (mainly from the greens) am halfway my first brown. but there is a problem everyone either brown or green needs to replenish. Everyone but me orders.
But before all the orders and their temperatures are taken, a green declares "replenish the entire table"
he! he! , my stories are getting me somewhere, "just got a beer" my mind register's. The night gets better, the audience gets more receptive. The weight of story telling is lifted as the audience joins the stage and the stage joins the audience.
We need another drink. Munyi doesn't . I had factored in this and therefore two of my strong ones are enough for the nite. But there is time. Time to be spent together.
"Aaahh Munyi what do you mean, have another one."
"No am ok."
"No no give him another one."
" But am ok!."
"Hapana mpatie" someone orders.
These are questions/discussions am not used to so I accept. I good nite its turning to be in deed.
"Lets shoot pool" , a green proposes.
'A nice idea' I think, but what I have learned in the past is "Avoid pool if u are not sure u will win, the bill is always on the looser" I therefore avoid it. With excuses of course.
Then the ultimate defining moment comes. The night's bill is tabled. Of course am sure am safe, no liability at all. I however give 500 to test the waters. On seeing that its accepted contrary to my expectation, I ask for change.
He he
" yours is 540 " Am told.
