Super Cool Infinity

a magical city thing happened last night.

i come home and put my bag down. i walk to the sliding glass door to look for clementine. she's not there. i hear my neighbor yell hey!! at guy, who has just arrived. she asks guy is lou home? guy says yeah! then guy comes in the front door. he says, M. wants to take you to see robin williams in the city. right now. right now? yeah, right now! she has a ticket! you should go! ok! i'm gonna go, i tell him. i'm gonna go right now! and i run down the stairs, purse back on arm, sweater back in hand and jump into M's cute little mini. and we're off.

i feel like i'm back in the city!! i tell her. she nods, YEAH!! these days are about having fun and doing what comes along! i tell her i believe in that! but it never happens since leaving the city!

we talk all the way to bimbos passing a fatty back and forth. the car is like a rocket. tight. everything precise. a little bit of a rough ride, being so low, but ultimately super cool. super cool infinity. it is my first time inside the mini rocket. i stare at all the components. toggle switches, round read-outs, a built-in GPS, everything symmetrical, blue and black leather, shiny sparkly gray dash. she tells me about her husband and how he was so excited to get one, he didn't negotiate with the dealer and he didn't even get the color he wanted, he just bought what was there. that's how i operate i thought. So Stupid, she says. deep inside my head i agree. even deeper inside i cry. just kidding.

we get to the club and i find they don't take credit cards. M. has called ahead and her friends have gathered chairs for us at their table which is really close to the stage. we get there and she orders a bottle of domaine chandon and food for us. i get embarrassed with every purchase that i can't pay for, yet feel unable to turn anything down with grace. i'm a glutton.

it's a night in the city, out at a club, on an expensive free ticket, with a new friend seeing an old comic who i've loved for maybe my whole life. how am i supposed to say no to anything?

oh, and very funny robin. very funny. you made my face hurt.