A young woman, an old man and 17 children walk into a bar. One by one they get hammered, they drink ouzo & rezina and sangria. They also drink whiskey, beer. These are not discriminate people and this does not change when it comes to their intoxicants, chemical, psychological or physical.
The woman wants to know the old mans story. The old man wants to know the woman’s taste in bedroom décor. The 17 children want to take the tables with them when they slip out the back door. So what they want immediately, and what else matters? Is a distraction.
The old man anticipates disappointment in his wants but smiles anyway. The young woman anticipates her life will change if she is only exposed to the wisdom of her elders. She will be disappointed as well, and until she is an old woman this will not make her smile. The 17 children anticipate nothing, their brains have not developed into consciousness, but rely on baser mental faculties. All they know is to act when the time is right, disappointment may as well be a city in Taiwan for all it means to them.
The 17 children get their distraction anyway.
The old man, drifting in his thoughts while the woman pries into the same, has fallen asleep as well as off his stool. The bartender runs to the front of the bar to help the woman help the old man up. The old man is smiling, long since having given up embarrassment. The bartender insists on an ambulance while the woman insists it was her fault. The old man is laughing and insisting he doesn’t need an ambulance, sometimes an old man just needs to rest his eyes, but perhaps the bartender should call the police.
The bartender is confused until he looks up and sees that all of his tables are gone. All that’s left is the feeling of 17 children suddenly vanishing.
The old man is still laughing, so is the woman. Feelings of ecstasy surge through the channels of her mind and she is in love. The old man, who has learned to read the twinkle in a woman’s eye as another may read the headlines of a newspaper, kisses her mouth. He finds she prefers blues and whites for the bed and beige, brown & green carpet and furniture. She says it’s because it makes her feel as though she is sleeping in the ocean, facing the beach.
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