Grrrrrrrrr
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According to my horoscope, the first part of March was going to really suck for me, and what do you know: my horoscope was dead on. Sympathy to all my fellow Virgo-with-Scorpio-Risings. Therefore it will probably be at least another twenty-four hours before I blog again to flog Wild Ride which will be out on Tuesday because snarling and ranting is no way to sell books and influence people. How bad has it been? This is what my current mental state looks like:
In other words, I’m ready to rip up your upholstery and devour your pet hamster. Whole.
Give me twenty-four hours and I’ll be back to my normal mildly grumpy self and we can go on as usual. At which point I will also be explaining to Sweetness that the white bookcase we’re putting in her room will not turn into giant flesh-eating bats at 3AM and rip chunks out of her arms while she sleeps, and that I only told her that so we could put the damn thing in there without her bitching at us. Sweetness has a dark side. But then so does Fake Aunt Jenny.
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78 Comments to 'Grrrrrrrrr'
On March 14, 2010 at 11:11 pm BCB said...
Oh thank god. I thought it was just me who felt this way. Be very glad you don’t have three sisters. Because there is always one of them who deserves to be turned into a hamster and shipped to Cincinnati. Inside a couch. Really.
And please. Anyone reading this blog is going to go buy that book, and ONLY that book, and NOT ANY OTHER book that might be a competitor for the NYT list this week, the minute it hits the shelves. Probably a few of us will chew through upholstery to do so.
Are you sure twenty-fours hours will be enough? Might take me longer. But I’m kinda slow.
On March 14, 2010 at 11:36 pm Michelle from Texas said...
When I saw that picture, I thought “There is no Jenny, only Zuul!”
BTW, Wild Ride is ordered and waiting to be shipped. Done & done.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:04 am Jenny said...
If only I looked that good. Sigourney Weaver’s finest moment.
On March 16, 2010 at 11:21 pm Shiloh said...
That voice was terrifying in an impressive way. Is it me or did her teeth get sharper during that moment?
On March 14, 2010 at 11:48 pm K.L. said...
I absolutely love that pic. Reminds me of, well, me after a visit with my mom and step dad sometimes. But I’m working on that. Really.
Good luck with Sweetness’s dark side.
On March 15, 2010 at 12:09 am Ericka said...
that’s what my cat looks like right after i’ve snatched her up and cuddled her ’till she squeakes. she loves that.
anywho, hope the rest of your month improves.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:00 am Eve said...
out of curiosity, where do you get your horoscope from?
P.S. if you wouldve finished watching Zombieland – it has GREAT tips for stress relief
Feel better! Throw something…
On March 15, 2010 at 1:03 am Jenny said...
Michael Lutin, Susan Miller, and Astrobarry. Plus the Mercury retrograde widget on my dashboard.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:04 am Sharon said...
Sorry for your bad mood-but remember we like you no matter what! Everyone is looking forward to the new book. I purchased “What The Lady Wants” last week at the area Borders store and got the last one on the shelf. Wild Ride will sell big time! Is Bob a nervous wreck before a book comes out?
On March 15, 2010 at 1:08 am robena grant said...
I love the glowing pink eyes. : )
Sorry you’re having a bad first half of the month. The second half is going to be amazing. I can sense it. Money will fly out of wallets and books will fly off the shelves, especially Wild Ride.
My friend at B&N is not happy with me. I’ve called him twice this weekend to tell him others are already reading the book and I know he has it in the back in boxes somewhere, and then I order him, I mean request nicely, that he just go and check. He laughs and says see you on Tuesday. I’ll be looking fiercer than that cat if I drive over there on Tuesday and it isn’t available. Our book club is on Wednesday, and I want to take Wild Ride to the meeting and talk it up.
I think I might call again tomorrow.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:22 am SueG said...
Weeeel, they say misery loves company, so I’ll share my weekend with you. Saturday 10 minutes after my husband leaves for work, toilet stopped up, I manage to get the water to the toilet shut off before it overflows (yay, me). We’ve had problems with tree roots invading the cast iron sewer line before, so I figure this is it and call my DH and then a 24/365 plumbing service. Unfortunately it wasn’t one we’ve used before (boo, me) and after 2 1/2 hours (and $500) of snaking the sewer line and trying to tell me I need the sewer line replaced at a cost of $4200 they pack up and leave with the line still clogged up. Sunday morning my DH and 2 WONDERFUL neighbors dug up the front yard, pulled up the cast iron sewer line and NO CLOG, they replaced the line with new PVC and have decided the blockage is after the city clean out drain and now I get to fight with the city tomorrow. In the meantime, judicious flushing only, as the drain is basically a holding facility until the city gets then “s**t” together. I need a red eyed cat to deal with the city and the loser plumbers!!!
But, instead I’ll happily take a “Wild Ride” on Tuesday.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:31 am Merry the CB said...
Okay, at great personal effort on my part, I looked your horoscope up on my personal favorite site, The Onion. And it said:
Virgo Aug 23 – Sep 22
The stars indicate that you’ve been looking really great lately. Also, the stars indicate that they could really use your help moving next weekend.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:04 am Jenny said...
Yes, but they never write, they never call, unless they need help. Screw the stars.
In other news, I’m trying to write a bar pick-up scene, except that the last time I played that game it was the early nineties. I have a feeling things have changed. From now on, all my books are set on the moon.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:48 am Micki said...
Yay! I love romantic science fiction!!! (Sorry, I’m a Virgo with I have no idea what is rising, but it has been pretty crappy this month, and I wish it’d go back down and leave me some peppermints on my pillow.) But I’m waiting patiently for my romantic thriller (-:.
On March 15, 2010 at 3:02 am BCB said...
Babe. Nothing has changed. People are still people. Just write the damn scene. It will be brilliant and we all will feel whatever it is you want us to feel. You’re good at this. Just do it.
On March 15, 2010 at 9:37 am Katie Redhead said...
The game hasn’t changed:They never write, they never call, unless they need help.
=)
I think the only real difference is that there are more ways for them to not be contacting you these days. (they never text, they never change the relationship status on their facebook…)
On March 15, 2010 at 10:03 am McB said...
It’s been a while since I did that, too. Actually there was only the one time. The pick up lines were really bad and somebody told me that holding back snorts of laughter can wreck your eardrums or something so I gave up on that. But I seriously doubt it’s changed. Maybe the clothes and hairstyles, but basically it wouldn’t have changed much.
On March 15, 2010 at 12:12 pm Bethany said...
The last guy to successfully “pick me up” (before my boyfriend who I sort of pseudo-stalked by going to his restaurant every week trying to work up the nerve to suggest we grab drinks and apparently had also started looking forward to Mondays because he knew I was coming in but wasn’t sure how to pick me up without coming off as weird–it took us almost 6 months, we’re pathetic) was on the metro and he asked about my friend who had been really upset on the platform before the train pulled away and then said that I seemed like a nice person. It didn’t come off as skeezy so we went for Ethiopian food. It didn’t work out, but still the best pickup I’ve had.
Another guy before then commented on the fact that I was reading a book at a bar and we started discussing the book.
Then there are the creepy ones, the weird ass ones, the ones who pull out their smartphones and start looking stuff up on the internet to try and impress you, the guy two nights ago who, after making an anti-marriage comment to the bartender turned to me and said “I guess I sound bitter, well I’ve been single awhile. How about you? Are you single?” which was just, grr, I don’t like people talking to me in public. I’m antisocial. I want my sidecar with a little conversation with the bartender if we’re friends and anyone I’m with, that’s all.
On March 15, 2010 at 12:44 pm Jenny said...
I can use this stuff. Thank you.
The problem is, I’m grumpy about men so Liz is grumpy about men, but I don’t want her to come off as bitchy. And outdated.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:20 pm Bethany said...
Just a warning, I’m 25 so I’m probably younger than Liz (I’m assuming she’s in her 30s for some reason–some vague memory of you once writing that you didn’t want to write women in their 20s) but happy to share more memories of guys in bars and at clubs.
There was the time two of my friends and I went out and two of us danced with two guys of a triad so our friend who was having a bad week could dance with the “hot” one and apparently my one friend got a bit gone and gave “my” guy my phone number but I’d given him a fake name (Anne) and I was very confused by a voicemail a day later asking Anne to meet for coffee…
On March 15, 2010 at 1:24 pm Bethany said...
Oh, and I’ve had 2 guys comment on romance books. One got a conversation because he was decent. The other put them down and got a “this was written by an ABD PH.D candidate who probably knows at least as much about the human condition as Hannah Arendt who you’ve probably never actually read” (sidenote, I do love her “On the Human Condition” )
Ok, I should stop trying to remember these. I’m becoming way too happy that my boyfriend was not a skeeze or a weirdo and buys me romance novels in snowstorms when I’m sick and printed out a borders coupon for me for Tuesday.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:43 pm Jules said...
Well its been the 90′s since I did the bar pick up scene too, but I’ve got my 20 year cousin and her two friends staying with me for a week, and based on their behavior, I think the bars must be full of good-looking people who are always looking down at the phones and texting or twitching to pick up their phones every 20 seconds in case someone sent a message. The three of them just sit next to each other and stare at the phones with the occasional giggle and “look at this”. Its really different than the old days….
On March 15, 2010 at 2:32 pm Moth said...
I had a guy try to pick me up because I was reading Neil Gaiman in a bar. Too bad I was only in the bar to say hello to my then-boyfriend the bouncer.
I had a guy try and pick me up once with the line, “I just looked over at you and had the strangest sense of deja vu. That’s got to mean something special, right?”
My favorite pick-up line, though is: What winks and fucks like a tiger.
And then the guy winked at me.
Priceless.
On March 15, 2010 at 7:07 pm Danielle said...
My favorite pick-up line was,” They call me peter-draggin’ because I leave three tracks in the sand.” This was of course while I was helping the guy three times my size to his truck so he could sleep it off…
On March 15, 2010 at 7:55 pm Jenny said...
That has to go under Bob’s “It worked once” theory. Jeez.
On March 15, 2010 at 8:40 pm CrankyOtter said...
Don’t use the word “yuppie” anymore
But you already knew that.
Last time I got picked up I wore a low cut shirt to the hardware store. Actually last two times. One netted an electrician, the next netted free veneer and a boyfriend/cabinet maker who helped me install a kitchen before he flaked out. It was a good deal.
OTOH, I *like* talking to non-schkeezy strangers at the bar – eating out is in my mental health budget because too many dinners alone in the condo is not good and I still don’t have enough reliable dinner dates after nearly 4 years in CA. (The boyfriend was not good for dinner much either. Which was odd, but hey, free kitchen labor! I totally won on that.)
At bars, I actually have good luck being the chubby sidekick- – the beautiful one pulls the guys in, then they like talking to me better. All the conversation is just so much noise trying to figure out if they’d go home with you either now or at a later date, and it can be repellent to eavesdrop on, IMHO, and I’m firmly convinced that with your dialogue genius, you’ll come up with something I’d use at bar before I could tell you what worked for real. Tell me how it’s done, FAJ!
On March 16, 2010 at 12:02 am Ericka said...
the last pickup line i got was, “call me mr. flintstone ’cause i’m gonna make your bed rock.” which sadly, made me laugh ’cause suddenly i was picturing flintstones porn which at the time struck me as hilarious. i passed on his generous offer, and the other day realized that he’d gotten the line from a rap song so not so original after all.
bah. a plague on them. i’m staying home with my cats… and ‘wild ride.’
On March 15, 2010 at 8:15 pm JO said...
I am so glad I am not the only one going to a bar and reading a book!! What is really pathetic is reading on a website that a guy was trying to pick me up by showing me his smartphone and looking things up on the internet to show me. I have to go back and find him…. Truly, I wouldn’t know if someone was trying to pick me up unless they are VERY straight-forward.
On March 15, 2010 at 10:43 pm Bethany said...
My favorite for reading is my local wine bar (better lighting) but I love having a good sidecar with my books.
I used to be awful at knowing they were trying to pick me up. I mentioned this thread to a friend today who said “remember that guy at Aldo” “What guy?” “You know, the one hitting on you? He kept asking what you’d think about a guy at the bar in the shoes he was trying on and looked totally crushed when you said that you’d think him European, gay, or too into appearances for you?”
I had not picked up on that guy. At. All.
On March 15, 2010 at 6:56 pm Deborah Blake said...
But that scene was wonderful! So I’m sure this one will be too. You might just have to go to a bunch of bars for “reseach.” Enjoy explaining that one to your accountant.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:05 am Lala said...
I am totally jazzed! I just got my email from Amazon, and they said they had shipped my copy of “Wild Ride” (and “The Cindarella Deal”)!
I don’t follow my horoscope, but I’m sure the stars are smiling on me now.
I feel like using lots! of exclamation!! points!!!
On March 15, 2010 at 9:50 am Laura said...
I pre-ordered my copy last month and they haven’t shipped it to me. I guess the stars are against Gemini on the cusp of being Cancers.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:07 am Merry the CB said...
I know you wrote that “snarling and ranting is no way to sell books and influence people.” (are no way?)
It reminded me of a quote by another author: “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” – Humter S. Thompson. Lord know he snarled and ranted and sold books. But he was a Cancer, which might explain things.
On March 15, 2010 at 12:46 pm Jenny said...
Oh crap. I edited the sentence and didn’t edit the verb. I’ll go fix it now. Thank you!
And Hunter S. Thompson was probably a nightmare in real life but fantastic on the page. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of my all time faves. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country.” No kidding.
On March 15, 2010 at 8:44 pm CrankyOtter said...
The bat country made me think of this quote from
http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.”
It’s got lots of interjections, it might suit your mood right about now.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:30 am Louis said...
“Wild Ride ” is on order. Just waiting.
And quietly ranting.
Cause I have to wait for it.
On March 15, 2010 at 4:26 am Kira said...
Oh, yay, it’s coming out tomorrow, hurray for Kindle! (I live far, far away from Barnes and Noble…)
On March 15, 2010 at 4:27 am Kira said...
Oh, and as a fellow Virgo – @#$ the stars, but do get some sunshine. Seriously, nothing like soaking up some Vitamin D to get the juices flowing.
On March 15, 2010 at 8:09 am Kate George said...
I’m a Gemini, I have no idea what my forcast is – but it can’t be good. I’ve got a sudden head cold, and so does my youngest daughter. Such a little ray of sunshine when she’s sick. (HA!) Then I’m up at 4:00 am with one of the twins puking. Never got back to sleep (and I HATE the time change. Whoever thought up that trick aught to be shot. I mean it. Shot.)
So afater all that, the little ray of sunshine asked me to make her lunch this morning, and I said yes, but it would be a few minutes because I hadn’t got all my stuff together yet. THEN my husband, who must have been possessed by the devil, looks at me and says – “You mean to tell me you’ve been up since 4:30 and your still not ready? What’s going on with you?” In a NOT NICE tone.
Instead of screaming “4 AM (not 4:30) and what universe do you live in,” which is what I wanted to do, I walked away. But I gave him a really dirty look first. I’d curse him with this nasty cold, but then I’d have to deal with him having a cold.
Good thing WR is coming out this week. The anticipation is keeping me from murdering people. I’m sure my eyes are as red as that kitty’s, but I’m not as cute!
On March 15, 2010 at 9:44 am Emily said...
According to National Treasure (surely a credible source) daylight savings was first thought up by Benjamin Franklin. Just to help you direct your anger. Don’t know if it’ll be enough to help your husband, though!
Borders Australia website told me that Wild Ride would be coming out on Tuesday… checked at my local store today, and nothing doing. Grrr. Got home and ordered from Amazon, now just to wait for international delivery. Grrr.
On March 15, 2010 at 9:54 am Laura said...
Yes, but when a new Kerry Greenwood is released I can’t even use Amazon, or I would have to wait 6 months to a year for the American release. I have had to find an online Australian bookstore from which to make my annual order and track her publishers website to see if a new book is coming (I just use Amazon for everyone else).
On March 15, 2010 at 12:28 pm Kate G said...
Normally I’m quite enamoured of Ben Franklin. He did a lot of good stuff. But Daylight Savings Time is just WRONG. It just goes to show even really smart people sometimes make mistakes. I don’t believe anyone has ever been able to confirm that it saves energy and it certainly makes for very grumpy kids for two weeks out of the year. (To say nothing of my grumpiness.)
On March 15, 2010 at 10:56 pm Lala said...
I’m from Arizona–we cheerfully thumb our noses at daylight savings.
(I’m also gloating because when I got home from work tonight, my copy of “Wild Ride” had arrived–a day early! thank you Amazon!)
On March 15, 2010 at 10:16 am Rox said...
Just got three order shipped notifications from Amazon.com. Turns out I pre-ordered Wild Ride three times: in September, in November, and then early this month when I found out the release date. My niece and mother will be the lucky benefactors of my terrible middle aged memory.
On March 15, 2010 at 12:47 pm Jenny said...
You know, you can return those.
But I thank you for your support.
On March 15, 2010 at 2:57 pm Rox said...
If I have to ship them, I might as well ship them to people who will be delighted to read them, rather than to a warehouse that couldn’t care less. Plus, I will score big points with my mom and niece.
On March 15, 2010 at 3:04 pm Jenny said...
And everybody wins. Once again, Rox rocks.
On March 15, 2010 at 10:27 am Diane (TT) said...
Someone ran into my parked car over the weekend. The files that I thought could be easily combined and transferred are lacking crucial information that I have to assign by hand – in each of about 10 different spread sheets. And I am fatter than I was a month ago.
However, the person who backed a Suburban into my car contacted the police, so my insurance should be OK, I made an AMAZING pie for Pi day (3.14) yesterday (Cranberry Apricot Surprise from King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking), and Wild Ride comes out tomorrow.
I’m Scorpio, for Sun, Moon AND Rising, but I have no idea what March was to hold for me, but it could be worse. Which is NOT a challenge, please!
On March 15, 2010 at 12:48 pm Jenny said...
Oh, dear God, a triple Scorpio?
You must have such an interesting life. Bat country 24/7.
Waving to you from a distance.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:02 pm inkgrrl said...
Pretty sure Heidi and I figured out that The Prince is a triple Scorpio too – definitely bat country 24/7/365.
On a happier note, Wild Ride was delivered to my Kindle this bright and sunny morning – WOO!!!
On March 15, 2010 at 1:20 pm r. said...
I’m going to tread carefully here since I may have slightly overused the “Yeah? Well, Ms. Crusie thinks I’m a genius!” line. I know, I know, it was the rabbit idea, not me totally. Moving on to a bar. I got nothing unless there’s good music. I do all right on the dance floor. you could just have the guy say, “that’s a great song. Let’s dance.” He’s got a 50/50 chance. Not that I did that a lot. Nope, not me.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:21 pm Logical Judy Long said...
Well I was going to drive an hour to Paducah today and pick up Wild Ride at BAM where it is sitting on a shelf as we speak. However, I checked my hotmail first and amazon shipped it this morning.
Still considering Paducah but maybe this is a sign that I should stick with writing until it gets here. I have another 30,000 words on the novel that I am going to revise with Lucy in June. It’s supposed to be finished already and set aside.
What to do, what to do, what to do….
(pouting) I really want to go pick up Wild Ride.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:21 pm Bethany said...
So just to show that even the archives are exciting, I was using my lunchbreak to clean out my email drafts (it was over 250 which seemed excessive) and found this link just labled “Read This” http://www.arghink.com/category/uncategorized/page/6/ I have no idea why. I mean, it’s entertaining and the red thing is cool, but seriously? Why did I single that page out? I was really hoping it was the massive office cleanup since that always inspires me toward organization. For a week.
On March 15, 2010 at 3:05 pm Jenny said...
Well, that must have been the worst post ever. Maybe you flagged it because it was so bad.
On March 15, 2010 at 4:22 pm Bethany said...
The puppies are cute. They were good to see today.
On March 15, 2010 at 7:43 pm Kathleen said...
I forgot about the red thing! Did you ever end up wearing it very often? I find when I buy interesting clothes, I wear them once, feel conspicuous, and chuck it in the closet until I finally donate it somewhere.
I wish I was gutsy enough to wear crazy fabulous clothes all the time.
On March 15, 2010 at 7:56 pm Jenny said...
I did, but it was hand-dyed and I perspired in it and now I’m trying to figure out how to wear it again without anybody saying, “What’s wrong with your armpits?” Possibly I will need to dye it again.
On March 15, 2010 at 10:44 pm Bethany said...
What about really hot water to sort of fade into the armpits?
On March 15, 2010 at 11:13 pm Jenny said...
And to think that when I started this blog, Mollie didn’t want me to make any comments because I might share too much. ARGH.
On March 15, 2010 at 1:22 pm Sure thing said...
Sending you good vibes. :-*
On March 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm Moth said...
Why does the reply button never work the way I want it to? *sigh*
On March 15, 2010 at 5:30 pm Logical Judy Long said...
I caved. I went & got WR at Paducah. But it must have been meant to be cause they had Burn After Reading, a Francis McDormand movie that I haven’t seen, in a sale bin. Meant to be, – see…
On March 15, 2010 at 7:06 pm Deborah Blake said...
I’m working on the outline for my current WIP (#2 in the series my beloved agent is trying to flog–er, sell) and it turns out that my protagonist and her best friend hang out in a bar called “Benders.” This is a play on words, since it is a paranormal (well, urban fantasy), and the owner of the bar occasionally entertains his customers by bending spoons with his mind. After a hard day, the pals get the house drink, called a “Bend me over”
I haven’t been in a bar in years, so I can’t really help with that. And I haven’t gone out with anyone in a serious way in more than 8 years, so I can’t help with that. In fact, it is proving to be something of a challenge when writing romantic scenes…since I can’t remember how any of that stuff used to work. I’ve been wondering if I could get away with hiring a male prostitute and taking it off on my taxes as “research.”
Not to taunt anyone…
But I got my copy of WILD RIDE a couple of days ago (ordered it through my local Indy bookstore–yay!) and I’m almost done. In case any of you had any doubts (HA!!!!) it is wonderful, of course!
On March 15, 2010 at 8:51 pm Kerry K. said...
Started the day with Bank of America refusing to accept my online mortgage payment. Much time passes before finding out they have a serious server problem, but will graciously wave phone fee for payment. This was followed up with the infamous ” SERVICE ENGINE SOON” light flashing and beeping at me while the car shimmered. Having a mechanic for a son I KNOW to pull over right away, however I had been trying to figure out what was wrong with a tooth while driving, turns out a tooth split in half leaving me with a very large hole in my gum. I decided to ignore a mental picture of my son jumping up and down yelling stop, stop, stop. My brothers family dentist is on a direct line to my house so I called him to get the address, 7740 Montgomery Rd says he. Trusting soul that I am I keep looking, 7720 – yes, 7730 – yes, 7740 – no, 7750 – yes… WTF? Me ” Kevin dear I can’t find 7740″ himself ” you have to go around back of one of the buildings. Time passes as I tramp around the backs of buildings and baby brother and I get increasingly testy with each other. Finally got phone number, called for directions, 7440 – not 7740, am storing up strong words for baby brother as I repeated the 7740 every time we talked. Got to dentist to find out cost of split tooth, $1000 – $1600 (depending if I need root canal). Got home to son who said “PULL OVER WHEN THE CHECK ENGINE IS ON MOM’. I need “Wild Ride”!!!
On March 15, 2010 at 9:30 pm GatorPerson said...
Life is easier if you
1. Don’t read horoscopes
2. Don’t watch news on TV
3. Stick your head in the sand.
On March 17, 2010 at 2:09 am Jenyfer Matthews said...
Totally my philosophy – and since I live in a desert, the last part is easy
On March 15, 2010 at 9:51 pm Julia Tasker said...
So sorry to hear about the blah day. Mine rocks, two copies of Wild Ride just hit the building!! Life is good.
On March 15, 2010 at 9:58 pm Renee Nickel said...
Going out to book shop tomorrow – Can’t wait!!!! Oh, by the way, I want that cat!
On March 15, 2010 at 10:27 pm Ginny said...
I used to waitress and bartend at a small bar near the courthouse called the Quorum Club. Say that over the phone to drunk people. Anyway, I heard so many pick up lines that they kind of lost their charm except this one which was so bad it was funny. “I’ve given up dating ugly women for Lent. Want to go out?” I should have listened. He was bad news but his gay younger brother was a love. He took me out to a gay bar to celebrate my breakup and we danced all night to “It’s Raining Men” by the Weather Girls. That surely dates me as ancient. And I’ve had a nasty cold, so I have prescribed bed rest and “Wild Ride.”
On March 15, 2010 at 10:28 pm Jenny said...
I love “It’s Raining Men.” Happiest song. With thunder.
On March 16, 2010 at 1:01 am Micki said...
Hallelujah (-:.
On March 15, 2010 at 11:17 pm SueG said...
Yay, just got my “shipped” email for Wild Ride, it will be here tomorrow!!
On March 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm inkgrrl said...
The good gay bars still play “It’s Raining Men” ;-P
On March 17, 2010 at 2:12 am Jenyfer Matthews said...
Haven’t been in a bar in ages, and am also bad at realizing when a man is hitting on me (possibly because I was a child bride so all that is a distant memory) But I got a Facebook friend request yesterday with a message that said “to the woman with the golden aura” and that struck me as bordering on a pickup line. Even harder to tell in cyberspace…
On March 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm MJ said...
When I went out with my much-younger sisters, I was surprised at how carefully they guarded each other’s drinks against roofies. Maybe because we were in Chicago.
On March 17, 2010 at 4:26 pm Jenny said...
I think roofies are universal now.
Fortunately, the bar in the book is a very small-town-community bar so a roofie would get somebody run out of town on a rail.
From now on, I’m writing about nuns.
On March 18, 2010 at 2:49 pm Lauren K said...
I can’t believe that this is what gets me to delurk. But where can I find a mercury retrograde widget? I totally need one of those.
On March 18, 2010 at 4:00 pm Jenny said...
Go to the Apple apps store and search for Mercury Retrograde.