Robert crawls into the pub

[Robert]

Very carefully so nobody will see him, Robert crawls on his belly into the pub and makes his way for the back corner. Robert keeps to the walls where it is the darkest. Tina screams as she feels something brush against her leg and spills most of her beer. Unfortunately for Robert, most of that beer ends up on his head. Still slithering towards the corner on his stomach Robert is almost there when baudrunner trips over him and falls to the ground. baudrunner assumes he is just very uncoordinated so gets back up and continues stumbling towards the toilets where he thinks he just might throw up.

At last, Robert arrives at his table. He discretely sits in the chair and pushes the magic button under the table and a door slides open in the wall with a chilled beer. Robert takes it and starts to drink.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Austin asks Robert if he works in a hectic corporation like he once did, where only results count, which makes those who can work a massive amount of overtime.

[Robert]

Robert jumps in surprise when austintorn taps him on the shoulder to ask a question. Surprised that somebody saw him enter the pub Robert looks at austin and says, "Hoowww uaaa sseee emeeeee". Then considers Austin's question, and recalls the painful times that he worked late into the night and sometimes the whole night. And those long weekends away from family and friends, trying to make something work when there are no instructions or guidelines. Those long lonely nights use to be infrequent, but now they seem to be all the time now. Robert looks at Austin again and says, "II wwwoork alllllll tymmm. woff wwooooooooof wwof." Robert noticed the frown on Austin's face and isn't sure if what he was thinking came out right. Robert also wonders if he just made some dog noises. Robert pushed his magic button again, but used his thumb this time since his pointer finger was sore from all the button pushing.

[MJA]

Robert screams when, from out of the darkness, MJA appears. Looking up at the ceiling as if giving a narrative, MJA says in a very loud voice, "The mad insane sleep deprived life of a crazed computer geek with sore fingers."

Then MJA turns towards Robert with crazed eyes and a look of great concern and says, "God Robert, can I buy you a whisky and a woman, a scotch and a beer? What do you need?"

[Graybeard]

Graybeard, brown nosing to Robert, informs him that MJA did not use the third person vernacular ..... lol

[MJA]

He bellied up to the bar and said with a glee: I get it, I get it,
Can I have a drink with thee?

=
MJA

[Mikal]

Mikal who only drinks coke on the rocks, enters the bar noticing that quite afew people are actually getting zonked. She decides that she better stay around and drink more coke so that when these guys decide they might crawl or drive home, she will start taking car keys and then fill her van to capacity to get them all home safe. She realizes Robert is wasted so she might have to drag him and lay him out in the back of the van...should be an interesting evening.....


Mikal

[Graybeard]

Robert ... bleary, groggy, and not really with it, wakes up and finds himself in the back of a strange van, a very strange van indeed.

He is surrounded by some very mysterious objects ... with a frightened yell, he lashes out and kicks open the back doors of the van .... and runs straight back into the Pub.

'Whats wrong Robert ?' MJA asks ..

'The Van, the back of the van, there were these .............'

to be continued by others


lololol

[austintorn@aol.com]

Austin walked in and posted a sign:

ANONYMOUS 30 Steps

1. Watch that first step, it’s a long way up!
2. There is a higher power—one which can often leave you quite powerless—it’s your electric company!
3. Make a fearless inventory of your defects—no, wait, that would kill too many trees!
4. Make amends—but, only over their dead body!
5. Eat and be merry—but don’t drink—just choke.
6. From beer to eternity.
7. A.A.A.A.A: An Organization for drunk drivers.
8. “Hello, my name is Johnny Walker, and I’m…”
9. Don’t be a hard drinker, drink easily and often!
10. I’m not just a grateful alcoholic, I’m a great alcoholic!
11. Easy does it—or else IT will do you (in)!
12. “Bottoms up?”/”I don’t care if you bottom out!”
13. Change your mind—and maybe it will work better.
14. Focus on yourself first—let housework be last!
15. Eat, drink, and get married—and then wake up surprised to see in-loves turned into in-laws.
16. Think drink!
17. You don’t drink much—you spill most of it!
18. Let go and get God, not let live and let evil!
19. It’s the questions that are hard, not the answers. (The answers: “yes”, “no”, “maybe”.)
20. “My name is Bunny—I’m an alkaline battery… I mean I’m an alkaseltzer, I mean…”.
21. Hardly does it.
22. One daze at a time.
23. How imported is it?
24. Evil Tel DNA Evil (Live and Let Live backwards)
25. Poor me… pour me another drink!
26. I drank Canada Dry.
27. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
28. An AA or Al anon meeting is not religious—you just do about the same things that you do in church.
29. Get addicted to meetings.
30. Bill Clinton joined on and on anon.

[Mikal]

Mikal who is sitting quietly drinking her coke on the rocks observes Greybeard entering the pub...he seems to be wearing the cheshire grin of the cat....she ponders as to what he may have been up to outside in the parking lot!!! She observes Austin as he moves from Robert's area to post some paper on the wall.....after awhile she saunters over to read the posted papers.....hmmm...she thinks....Austin must be a non-drinker, maybe she can sway this charismatic guy to her table for a coke and they can chat and keep an eye on Robert who is worsening every minute in his WWWWOOOOJJJJ dog language...she looks back at Greybeard strongly sensing that he has been up to possible michief.....


smiles Mikal