Julie on top, sometimes
 

JULIE?S ON TOP, SOMETIMES


Sometimes, you get what you need, even if you didn?t know you needed it.
I?d been dumped by my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago, and I was feeling rejected, lonely, and kind of low, so I decided to head down to the bar to have a couple, and perhaps meet someone new. I didn?t need any more emotional baggage, so I sat on a stool between two others, distancing me from a direct conversation with the other ?poor and lonely? people. I thought I would just have a few to try to mellow out over what I had just been through with the woman I gave my life to (I thought), so I ordered a draft. It was flat, and the glass was NOT frosted. ?Well?, I thought to myself, ?I will drink the drink I paid for, and head to the store and buy myself a six-pack, I have frosted glasses at home in the freezer, and even if this damned beer cost me $3.00, I won?t waste it by leaving NOW---
I sat at the bar nursing my beer, and a guy sat down next to me and ordered the same thing I had.
?I wouldn?t?, I told him. ?The draft?s kind of flat?.
?Hey, thanks?, he said. ?Let me buy you one in a bottle, for warning me! Bartender, two of these, but bottles!?
?You didn?t have to do that?, I said to him, ?but, thanks. I?m Chris.? I held out my hand, and he shook it. ?My name?s Eric?.
A couple of beers later, we were talking about stuff---cars, football, the elections. The subject of women came up, and I told him about my breakup.
?Yeah, I?m kind of worried about my girl, too?, he said. ?We got in a fight, and I?m in the doghouse right now.?
?What?d you fight about??, I asked. ?With mine, it was the money thing.?
?Well, it?s kind of embarrassing---?
I said, ?As far as I have heard, ?The bigger the checkbook, the bigger the dick look?. I wasn?t man enough because I don?t make enough money! You?d think that 40 grand a year was enough, but her new boyfriend makes 70 grand---?
Eric said, ?No, nothing like that. She wanted to try something different, you know, in bed, and I don?t want to do that.?
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