Meeting New People

My good friend and I have been getting together on Mondays. We tend to get together during the day and have some coffee and talk about work and stuff. My friend is a chef and I'm a cook so Monday is one of the days we both have off. Considering that it's Monday, I like having him to hang around with because no one else has off on Monday.

I called him early in the day, late enough so that he'd be awake but early enough that he wasn't doing anything else. He was already doing something else. He said he would call me when he was done with the stuff he was doing. Long story short (too late) he ended up falling asleep and didn't call me until late in the afternoon. He asked if I wanted to come over at night and have some beers and play some video games. He said he was going to have some other guys over as well. I said sure.

The other guys that he had over are friends of his I don't completely know. The one guy lives near me and is a pretty nice guy. He's pretty mellow and nice. I had never met the other guy though. He talked a lot. The kind of nervous talk that people tend to do when they're not completely comfortable and they're overcompensating. That's not really too big of a deal. It was more what he talked about.

Like a lot of guys, I look at porn. Sometimes I'll even forward something I've seen to a friend. The desired response to something like this is usually something like "Thanks for the e-mail. That woman was hot." Or something to that effect, if anything. However this guy decided to go into excruciating detail about what kind of porn he liked, what he liked about it, why porn on his high-def tv was better than being married, etc. When we started playing video games he decided to narrate what might happen to the characters in the fighting game after the game was over. And it tended to be graphic and excessively misogynistic. What really frustrated me was that he had brought his sketchbook and he was a really good artist. I had been hoping to find someone to work with on a comic book and I was excited to have finally found a good artist.

Then he opened his mouth.