Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Playing Pool

I came to a bar to meet a group of friends.
Actually, I ran to the bar. It was pouring rain outside - torrential rain. So everyone in the bar had damp clothes and was sporting wet-look hair styles. The light was dull but brightened by the beer signs above the bar and the TV screens playing sports and horse races. My friends had started playing pool on the large table at one end of the small bar. There was some Creedence playing on the jukebox with laughter and lighthearted banter hanging in the air along with the cigarette smoke. So, not a bad place to spend some time with friends.

Joey handed me a cue and urged me to join in the next game. I noticed that the balls on the table were for playing Snooker - not Pool. So he made up a triangle of red balls and colored balls, and that is how we played.
After Joey broke I had my turn and was doing quite well. That is until Sofia started her distraction tactics. How is a man supposed to play pool shots with any degree of accuracy with Sofia Vergara sitting opposite the pool table perched on a bar stool with wet hair from the rain and wearing a tight blue dress the way only Sofia Vergara can and moving in such a suggestive way to render accurate pool shots impossible. She always distracts me this way whenever I play Joey. You would think I would be used to it by now - but I'm only human. And by the smile on her face she was completely enjoying causing me to lose. It's not that she prefers Joey to win, she just knows that I am the easiest target. To be honest, it's not a bad way to lose.

So Joey takes the game and while he sets up for another I stroll over to Sofia to give her a piece of my mind on her, clearly one sided, support. "Have you seen Danny?" she asks. "He has just finalized his divorce and he got his wife's body".
"He what?"
"He divorced his wife," she explains slowly so I will comprehend, "she got the house and he got her body".
"I don't under..." I begin to say just as Danny walks into the bar. He walks over to greet us and I am confronted by this middle-aged man's face on a hot female body in a sexy black dress. A body to rival Sofia's and a face to rival the old guy planted at the end of the bar.

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