Sunday, November 7, 2010

Those who have glass doors should not drink bloody marys!!

So we decided to go down to the "bar", Carol and I... to have a bite to eat and a bloody mary. We had no idea that we would encounter a Californian bar tender whose signature drink was indeed... a bloody mary! He made this drink in front of us with great skill in his mind, transferring to his hands as he whipped together a concoction of tomato juice, vodka, A1 sauce, horseradish, celery salt and a pickle on the top. We enjoyed our "spicy bloody mary" - looking through the door to the pool. The door looked directly into the hot tub - this was to be our next venture... why in the world would an architect design a pool and a bar with a glass door in between them? As we are talking to each other we also find out that the guys next to us are electricians for Protech - here on business, teaching others how to take care of electrical shortages when they occur.
...we are trying to be really good listeners and yet the whole time we are trying to conceive in our minds who was this person whom designed this place? What in the world was he thinking? Did he indeed have a plan in mind and then meet up with the California bar tender and forget what in the heck he was doing?
...grammie pammie has been looking forward to the hot tub sense her new knee surgery, is she going to let it bother her that everyone at the bar will have a look at everything she presents including her new knee? Will she dare to venture into the bubbly hot tub to relax when she can see from this side of the door, all the way to the bottom of that hot tub? Picturing what she will look like to those on this side of the door...
...we continue to listen to the electrician tell us about his life on the road as he pours down a few more beers and it is harder for him to keep his eyes open.., by now Carol has decided she is not going to go into the tub - but, she will go with me and relax with her computer
They are going to brave it, Grammie slips off her triple X flannel shirt and quickly hops into the tub. As Carol sets up office - Grammie leans back and lets the hot water jets spray onto the muscles that surround her new knee. The joys of life are there for us, hot water, computers... we have forgotten about the other side of the door.
...we have forgotten about electricians with jobs and California bar tenders
...we have lost ourselves into the world of relaxation
...my 30 minuets are up - out I go - slip on the triple X shirt and some sweats and suddenly in walks about 15 people - wowser, fully dressed - sitting with Carol we start to laugh... thinking how we pulled the wool over their eyes... they'd never even guess I had been in that hot tub. They would just think we had been there talking and laughing with our friends on face book...
...unless of course they were having a signature bloody mary before they came in!!

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