It's official, Bob's
I was hoping that my apartment wasn't damaged.Thankfully, it was bone dry. A roof drain wasn't working properly during the downpour we had earlier in the day and that caused the damage. Yuk.
When I got inside, I did the usual at home activities; watched TV, played games and listened to music. This all culminated at the end of the evening when I ended up watching the collective works of Blue Oyster Cult on VH1 Classic. They had me at Godzilla but I stayed for Don't Fear the Reaper. There's a good chance that I may have been in a sugar coma during that time. What can ya do? I ended up online at 12:48 am and seriously considered purchasing a Sony ICF-SW40 World Band Radio from Amazon.com. What can I say; it was one of my Gold Boxoffers. After thinking about it and thinking about it, I passed forever and looked at their next offer. The next offers were baby items. And then it just hit me - I'm 33 years old and I haven't spread my demon seed yet. Yes, I want a child. Ha ha ha, just kidding --- I just wanted to use "demon seed" in a sentence.
Saturday I woke up around 9:53 and made arrangements with Walter and "Sally". The plan was to take them to a few used car lots and then we'd go to the casino. At least that's what I thought the plan was. I get to Walter and "Sally's" and then I find out there's a slight change of plans. We're going to Brooklyn to look at car that someone is selling privately and by the way, the casino is out because I never really made a full commitment to it - even though I distinctly remember saying we'll play it by ear until the last second. If "playing it by ear" is agreed upon, and it was, other plans for that night should not have been made! But whatever, I'm bigger than this. So, this puts me in quite the mood.
Walter's Rebuttal: "Sally" and I really appreciated Bob taking time out of his busy schedule to drive us out to Queens and we apologized to him for our miscommunication. However, in my defense, I'd like to quote Bob from his official website diary:
8-1-03: "This weekend I've been debating whether I should go to a casino with Walter and possibly "Sally" . But ultimately, I decided I should use my money for things I need, such as a car tune up or a Tivo, ha ha."Case closed.
-WK
We get to the private seller and the car wasn't even worth me getting out of my car to check it out.I love cars, so you know this wasn't a good deal. Walter and "Sally" thought the same and soon we were off to a dealership in Queens. But first we stopped off at the best place in Brooklyn for mideastern stuffed pitas, you know, the Bedouin Tent. It was OK but I ordered the wrong damn thing. I thought I ordered a pita but I ended up with a lamb pizza. My review of my first ever lamb pizza: "Yep, that was a lamb pizza alright."
Off to Queens, somebody pinch me. There's not much to this part of the story. We were in a dealership for about four hours. I'm no longer angry about the casino thing because Walter and "Sally" are my friends and let's be honest; it's probably for the best as I should save, not, spend my money. At the end of our time in the dealership they may or may not have bought the car - I don't even think they know for sure. We drove back to the city and had a lovely dinner at their place. I could have gone to a movie that night but I really wanted to get back to Hoboken.
Once back in Hoboken, I wondered why I wanted come back so soon, damn. I watched a movie and called it a night.
Sunday morning I watched the political shows and got a shower. Soon, I was off to Nutley to do my laundry. Sweet sassy molassy was it humid out! I put in my loads and walked over to the drug store to purchase some soap and deodorant. I walked back to the laundry mat to check on my laundry and I forgot to turn on the machine. That was Bob moment #1 for Sunday. I told the laundry lady and she said now you're stuck with me until closing, ha ha. To kill time I walked into the pet store and bought some food for the office fish. Then I walked over to the shoe store, mostly to get cool. On my way over I ran into Tara and Joe from work. It's always weird/cool running into people that you know on a weekend. I looked in the shoe store for a while to get cool. I noticed that they were having a sale. Buy one get another for half off. But I also noticed that they jacked up the prices from last week. So if you're just going to buy one pair, you're going to get screwed. If you buy two, you still don't save you anything because the prices aren't true. Famous Footwear gets the gas face for their false sale.
I put my clothes in the dryer and then walked over to Kohl's. I was looking for clear glass/plastic bottles to put shampoo in. They had one that I wanted but it was $14.99! Come 'on Kohl's, it's glass and a tube. I stayed a little longer to soak up the free air conditioning. Then I ate some pizza. I folded my clothes and I was on my way. I accidentally drove by a Pier 1 Imports or as the New Jersey lady said to someone one her cell phone, "I'm in a Pier 1 Import". I drove in there because I knew they'd have a glass shampoo bottle. Sure enough, they had one ($5). I also picked up a basket ($6) to put my bathroom cassettes in (I listen to music in the shower). While I was browsing, I picked up a huge, $30 martini glass. I was concentrating so much on putting the base safely back on the counter that I hit the other huge glasses and it made a loud "cling" noise. That was Bob moment #2. I laughed out loud at that one. I also picked up something for you. It's time for another bobborden.com contest!
Pier 1 Imports and bobborden.com have teamed up for a contest I like to call: Win Bob's Corn! I was walking around the store and saw this:
Win Bob's corn!
It was so pointless - it's fake corn with a price tag -- I had to get it! Here's what you need to do to win: On my message board, tell me why you want to win the corn. The best answer, in my opinion, wins. I'll announce the winner tomorrow. Good luck!
That's it for today. I had a pretty good weekend.
Down for Whatever,
Bob
