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27 June 2009

Just my luck ... [More:]
I went to an AA dance tonight on the King's Road in Chelsea. It was a lot of fun, I saw people I hadn't seen in ages and had a good old dance (lots of Michael Jackson was played).

Anyway, I got chatted up by this guy, who kept dancing over to me, and then engaged me in conversation. After we swapped names and basic pleasantries he said "I can't believe there isn't a bar here - I had to go out to the pub over the road to have a couple of beers." (He'd had way more than a couple)

Turns out he didn't realise the dance was an AA event. He'd been walking by, heard the music, strolled in, paid his £8 on the door and started dancing. Out of all the guys there, I had to be chatted up by the only bloke in the place who was on the piss.

Of all the gin joints, in all the bars, in all the world ...

BoringPostcards, you'd have LOVED Chelsea tonight - the last Saturday in the month is the Classic Car Cruise. Oh my, there were some beauties driving up and down the King's Road, lots of them American classic cars and pickup trucks from the 40s and 50s, beautifully restored, some with incredible paint jobs.
"on the piss", what a great phrase!
posted by octothorpe 27 June | 19:36
£8!!
posted by matthewr 27 June | 20:36
Oh jeez, what an idiot!
posted by Specklet 28 June | 06:15
Wait, is that even allowed? If you are all "Anonymous" can outsiders even be allowed inside?
posted by TrishaLynn 28 June | 07:06
There's no membership register, Trisha.
posted by essexjan 28 June | 10:47
so I have to know... did you tell him, and what was his reaction?

TrishaLynn- from what I know, the anonymous bit is that, if you see someone from meetings out and about, you don't shout "hey, bob, it's me, from AA! how you doing!" or say "oh, I know ted in accounting, we go to the same AA meeting." or something like that. It's not so much an iron-clad secrecy thing as it is a matter of knowing you can go there and the other people in the meeting won't leave and tell half the town where you were.
posted by kellydamnit 29 June | 01:44
I was going to tell him, but then the Summer Loving came on and the room split up with all the men on one side and all the women on the other, each singing the correct part and doing silly Grease-type dances. After that I didn't see him again.
posted by essexjan 29 June | 12:14
Richard Price + Martin Scorsese + Michael Jackson = "Bad" music video || Saturday Night

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