“That happens,” Lamore.
“Is it broken? How?” Me.
“Hi, I am trying to get a friend to go to the gym. Can you help? He wears a Catfish hat,” a dude walked me at the gym in New York Sport Club. He is about my dad’s age and talked to me in a way I don’t understand. I thought he really had a friend who tries to go to the gym and I can help him with my guess pass.
“Hi, Lamore, I would like to use one of my guest pass to my friend,” and then I was pointing at the dude which the dude asked me to get the pass.
“No, this is not his first time,” Lamore.
I just felt a bit interesting in a sense that there is no rule stating the guest pass can only apply to “new guest” and I was required to pay $ 20. I meant he was.
And when he seriously about to leave so am I, I realized, “oh, it will be awkward if I do not pay the $ 20.”
“Please enter your number,” Lamore.
And then there is $ 20 shown on the screen.
“Wait, so how can I use my card on file?” Me
“Uhhhh, you cannot,” Lamore.
“So I need to get my card,” Me.
“Yes,” Lamore.
I went back to the Men’s Room and found my credit card. One of me thinks about of 20 dollars just can be gone for no reason now and another me thinks about ok I am using a credit card so I will just pay 2 dollars for the pass.
That guy was fit and young. So, I was like what is the hidden card.
“This is awesome, can I buy you dinner?” He told me his name is Joseph. He looks like one of the celebrities in Fast and Furious, an action movie that I never watch.
“Sure, where shall we go?” Me.
“Red Rooster,” Joseph.
Red Rooster is my favorite restaurant in Harlem. I like the food and music there but I still feel the music is a bit loud since people go there, I meant some of us go there to have a date.
“Congrats, you win the game, indeed, someone would pay for you. Hopefully you win a bet,” Me.
“There is no bet unless you go to my hotel with me,” Joseph.
“I did not shower yet today,” Me, “oh I forgot, I did it at the gym.”
“Let me get the taxi,” I pulled my phone and called Indira’s driver to pick me up with her Lincoln.
Indira has a Lincoln which was born in the 60s with renovation. The inside is totally current and when I sit in, I just cannot not believe I am a prince.
“The dude was a bit shocked when he saw you car. He thought it was mine and kept asking me why I was working out there and I told him that I was trying to sleep with my brother,” Me was talking to Indira about my bona fide date from New York Sport Club, a club she is hesitate to go to.
“So…” I slide my hand under his, “how did you know I am gay?”
“The first moment when I saw you, I know it,” Joseph.
“How did you know I am interested?” Me.
“……..”
I was not even drunk that night and we went to a bar first.
“Let me have some Irish coffee,” Joseph talked to the bartender.
“I will have Tito on Ice,” me.
“What do you do for work?” Joseph.
“Oh, I do cyber security and my job is just to apply the coding. When the screen shows, I hand it to the next,” me.
“So, you are fit. Any drug that you use?” Joseph.
“Not as much as you,” Me.
When the dating occurred many years ago, the rule was different. I was pretending someone who I seriously did not know but I believed guys buy it.