repost... but a story that will live, burned into my skull, forever:
I was getting ass over elbows shitfaced one night at Dorian's and 'Carla' was hanging on my like a fucking lamprey. Carla was a large mostly goth chick that was really REALLY not my type,that constantly chainsmoked her way through pack after pack, doused in patchouli oil, but a friend of the group none the less and no worries... so I thought.
We go over to my buddies house to smoke a few and I am getting stoned enough to actually sympathise with Depeche Mode lyrics, and Carla keeps sidling over to rub my shoulders or some other lame thing, so I lean over to my buddy and say "I am way, WAY too wasted to continue this charade, so please, DO NOT LET ME GO HOME WITH CARLA, please, whatever happens, save me from that fate."
Not only did he actually put me in the cab with her, but he payed for it too.
I wake up, hung so savagely that I cant uncross my eyes. I know I am in bed with carla, and she rolls over to start a little morning hoola-hoola and her cold sweaty belly presses agains my arm while she exhales stale beer and cigarette smell right into my Medievally hung over face, which pops me out of bed like a plutonium powered toaster.
"Uh, I gotta go.' he says, reaching for his boots on the way to the door.
"You can't go yet, you have to wait until my father walks the dog."
'father'?!? the HORROR
Ok. Panic time. I'm 26 years old. She lives with her parents.... "How old are you?"
"17"
Balls crawl into chest cavity.
"Er... when does he walk the dog."
"About 8:00"
looks at watch, its 6:30. I am NOT waiting for an hour and a half feeling like my scullcap is slowly being peeled back with a rusty fork with the pituitary giant twin sister of Wednesday Adams licking her eyebrows while trying to swallow me whole.
"I have to go".
I walk out of her room with my boots in my hand. Now, you really have to picture this to get the full effect. I am in pretty good shape at this time, training really heavy, cycling a lot daily, etc. I have a good two day growth of beard and hangover paste about a meter thick. I am in a black tshirt with a scull and crossbones on it, black jeans, black suede jacket and carrying my Mad Max boots into the pristine white and powder blue, extremely well lit, living room of carla's parent's appartment on the upper east side.
I walk out to meet, face to face, carla's dad, who was reading the times until i opened the door and stumbled out of his teenage daughters bedroom. He is sitting with the large dark dog that I will refer to as "Rex", who might have been a Rot, or maybe the product of a failed Jurasic Park-esque experiment. Daddy and Rex both look up at the same time, both with ears up and ready to pounce..
Think fast, cheffy...
"Mr. XXXXX I am so glad Carla let me sleep on her floor last night we had a big party after the school play and I think I had a couple too many beers and was afraid to drive home to my folks place in CT. so carla let me sleep here she really saved my life i can't tell you lucky I am that she was kind enough to offer...."
I never stopped talking accross the room, through the kitchen, out the door, down the hall and into the elevator still with my boots in my hand.
I ran out of the lobby, into a cab and back to my place on the west side where I drank a cold beer, showered and scrubbed the gothic funk from my sorry lingam and went back to bed, alive, unscathed, knowing that this will always haunt me as the least attractive 'wake ups' ever.