double booking adventure

I accepted a date from a female singer at a little coffee shop in a suburban
strip mall a while back. I had never been to the place but I knew the
general area pretty well. I drove into the parking lot and found it to be
pretty much deserted but since it was a weeknight I didn't let that bother
me too much.

What did bother me was the irish singer guy setting up his pa system and
getting ready to play what I thought was our date. When the girl singer
arrived she was equally miffed. Two or three angry phone calls later we
agreed to let the irish guy play in return for later dates and the
complimentary meals we'd been promised.

The funny thing was that the room was empty. And I do mean empty. It was me,
the girl singer and one employee behind the counter. No paying customers at
all. Undaunted, the irish guy went ahead with his act anyway. What an
egomaniac. He was bellowing these over amplified songs of his through a pa
system out into an empty room. He poured his heart out. In between songs he
told stories and jokes. It was so loud that the two of us could literally
not hear one another as we sat trying to talk and eat our dinners.

So we basically ate as fast as possible and left. Outside in the deserted
parking lot, the irish tunes still blaring out of the coffee shop, it was a
little like an episode from the Twilight Zone. I'm not sure Rod Serling
could have set it up any better. ....joe


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