Reasons to rejoice...
1) Pleasant company at the Newsroom
2) Com'd drinks and food to boot
3) Keira has internet!!!
We interrupt this regularly scheduled programming to inform you that Dave and Steve get real, real mad when I get special treatment for... well, for being a woman.
Tonight for instance. I go to a local restaurant and get my yummy martini and snacks all comp'd by the extremely nice, talkative, and male host. No big whoop, as I'm fond of the respected establishment and am on casual terms with the man. He's very friendly and I --honest to goodness (a very Minnes-oh-tan thing to say)-- enjoy chatting with him.
Steve and Dave, on the other hand, seethe with jealousy. Weather it be free drinks, having doors opened for me, free "xtras" from Au Bon Pain downstairs, etc. etc., it's a source of their pain. Which is of course why I take every chance I get to tell them about it. Not so much Steve... he's getting used to the whole "What Margaret wants, Margaret gets" mentality. In fact, come to think of it I think he's the one that labeled me with that phrase. But Dave... whoa-ho-hoa. His face turns red, his fists clench, and he scrunches his nose.
"See... now, that is TOTALLY unfair!" he'll fire off.
"I'm sorry Dave *now I batte my eyelashes a few times*, what would you like me to do about it?"
"Dammit Margaret *insert head shake."
That's when I offer up a game of tic tac toe on the whiteboards or talk about getting some white chocolate to run interference. And of course it works.
I'm just sayin' people. If I go to the Newsroom for an innocent drink, have a pleasant chat with the host, and he happily comp's the bill, I'm down. Besides, men have their perks for being men. Like... acting all masculine when I give them the opportunity to flex their muslces and pay for shit. Lucky bastards.
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and THAT is why I love you!!
XOXO
Dave seethes more than I do. I've been lucky enough to get some drinks comp'ed by proxy so I got nuthin' to complain about.
Yo - I wonder if your extremely nice, talkative, and male martini comper will read this post. LOL. You should mention that sometimes being a woman (see pink shirt above) will get you certain things ;-)