CafeChatNoir

Personally, I think it’s critical in life to have safe places you can go to and just exist with no questions asked on a regular basis. Sometimes it’s IRL, sometimes it’s virtual, in the form of a blog, a friendly forum, whatever.

One of my safe places is GD’s. It’s someplace I can go completely alone and never even think twice about it. I can go in, have a beer, watch a game, catch the box scores on SportsCenter and no one hassles me. I find it amusing that when Pink’s song “U + Ur Hand” came out, my brother said, “That makes me think of you at GD’s.” Spot on - I’m there for a beer and decompression and little else, so sod off.

Not that I am a hermit beeyotch there, I have completely accepted (and embraced) my role there - we all have them, even if we don’t know it - early-onset-mildly-aging-hockey-junkie-barfly who loves sports and always has an extra smoke for anyone that needs it. And I’m OK with that. I’ve met a ton of good people and even when the connections seem to be nothing more than superficial, it’s good to go somewhere and have a sitdown and check in with everyone and make sure they’re doing OK, and they do the same with you. I’ve met some fantastic people there and I wouldn’t trade them for anything.

That’s why at the end of a long (but technically short) week, I couldn’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be to kick back and celebrate the fact that we all made it to Friday.

Have a good weekend, kids.

Current Music: The Ballad of John & Yoko - The Beatles