May 2006 Speaking with Others: Drunkard at the bar on Castro. |
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Näm was with his friend Kurt and his roommates César at the Bar on Castro one evening. They had just come from dinner at Thai House Express and decided to pop into the Bar for a quick drink and some man-seeing. We're sitting at the booths in the front, when Näm's other roommate comes in. He makes some statements about not being called out but then sits down and enjoys the crowd. The guy that we refer to as the paint mixer starts dancing in front of us. He actually was probably dancing in front of his own friends, but the point is that we call him the paint mixer because he shakes his ass like one. Anywho, this drunken white person point my roommate out and says screams out his name. Näm's roomie responds with glee and all of the sudden this giant white man is tumbling out from the air and lands on my roommate. He continues by kissing him on the cheek and such and making a huge fool of himself. Näm's roommate makes it clear that he is not interested in that sort of shenanigans. So the guy sits down with his arm around my roommate, to his obvious dissatisfaction. Next to the white oaf, my friend Kurt was sitting. Näm turns to look at him and he has this panicked look on his face and eyeing the oaf's other arm, that had somehow gotten around him. Kurt was mouthing for help. So, Näm taps the guy on the shoulder and ask him quite nicely, "Can you please stop touching my friend, he doesn't like that and you are making him uncomfortable." The oaf lunges back in a bit of shock and goes to grab my roommate on his other side. But during Näm's request, a black form had shifted out the bar and my roommate was nowhere to be seen. The guy then starts making no sense. From what he ended up saying, "Well, then where do I want to touch you then." Of course, Näm responded, "What are you talking about that doesn't make any sense." He repeated. So, Näm responded, "I really don't understand what you are asking, it doesn't make grammatical sense to me in light of our situation." He then goes on a rant a rave about something and finally says, "So, what are you some expert… are you taking an English class or something?" Well that
was just silly, the guy was obviously drunk so there was no use to argue,
not that they had anything to argue about. We are saddened and annoyed
that guys think it appropriate to touch other people when they have
not been solicited to do so. That's just indecent, especially if they
have already been told not to. Though, we would like to say this is
something that happens with Asians a lot, it is very likely that this
is a universal trend in the Castro. Men here are pigs.
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