Friday night with friends

Yesteday I'd arranged to meet fireun at the mall, so we could go for drinks after work. As I was walking in from the parking lot, I saw fireun and djkc driving away. Waving to me as they giggled. I stopped in the middle of the lane, head hung down, a picture of dejection, wailing "Oh noes!"

A kind woman stopped and asked "Did you miss your ride?" in a tone of voice well-suited for dealing with a distraught child.

"Err, um, no. They're parking," I replied.

Turns out that fireun had scooted home so she could pick up the souvenir she brought me from her trip out west--an awesome beer glass that proclaims the virtues of interspecies love:

Safely reunited with my friends, I called jpsorrow's cell phone and left him a message stating our intent to proceed into Ruby Tuesday's, begin devouring brains, and asked that he bring bail money. Surprisingly he showed up not too much later. And he'd brought freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, yum.

With friends like these, how can you go wrong?