Since I cant sleep anyway due to too much caffeine earlier I might as well stay up and tell you a story - but could
you please hand me that blanket over there? It has been a long day and an even longer night and I am a bit cold and weary
though not able to sleep yet. Maybe I better start at the beginning though with me being silly enough to argue with my
imaginary Johnny boy and now I cant even remember what about ... That is not important either but the
little darling left in anger and went to our local bar where he met some friends and began drinking with them. One
drink took another and they soon left for what they thought would be a better place down the street. And another place a bit
later and then another and - and I think you get the picture -o* When Johnny had left in anger I found his wallet on the
dresser in the bedroom and almost went after him to give it to him. But then I decided not to do that hoping that when my
sometimes a bit silly and certainly hot headed guy found out he had no money he would come back to me so we could make up
and everything Johnny especially - would simmer down. But no Johnny showed up as the night progressed. I had forgotten
about that charm of his which always seems to make him able to get what he wants when he really put himself into it.
So getting drinks and cigarettes without two dimes to rub together was no problem at all for my man. Later Johnny told
me that he had actually been about to go back for the wallet when he found out it was missing and he only had a little cash
in his jeans pocket - some change he had gotten back earlier when buying some apples and milk, he smiled. But Sean, a
friend of his, asked him very seriously if he really was that frightened of the little woman at home that he'ld crawl
back like that and ask for forgiveness humbling himself. A moment Johnny says he thought that going home and making up
with me sounded like a very cosy thing to do. But then all the men around the table started to talk tough about having
to show who was the boss and not giving in. A man after all needs his freedom and space to breath. Why should women decide
everything? They had never understood anything anyway, they stated with all the wisdom of a lot of booze My sweetie was
sensible enough to look rather sheepishly when he told me this later - but also claimed that all this made some sort
of sense when one had drunk quite a lot. And since some of our argument had been about Johnny forgetting to call home
earlier in the day and me getting worried my boy did want more freedom at least enough not to have to feel guilty
for having made me nervous. Conveniently forgetting that he behaves the same way himself - or even worse - if or when I
am late for something ... He *o* That said I do believe Johnny when he said that he tried to call me a couple of
times during the night but that the first pay phone he found was busted. The next was busy. His cell phone battery had no
more power and as the night wore on he also knew I would be more and more worried and more liable to get mad when I heard
he was quite O.K. but drunk as a skunk as he said himself so he gradually gave up on trying to reach me at all ... But
when Sean and another guy started to get so drunk they wanted to fight all and sundry they met on their way Johnny had had
enough. He is sometimes a bit of a hothead himself but fight just for the fun of it has luckily never been
his style. So he bluntly - and not that wisely, I must admit - told them they were more stupid than ought to be allowed
by law when behaving like that. A true statement if there ever was one but it almost got him a beating too
hadn't he in the nick of time slipped between two very big and broad ushers at a discothèque who knew Johnny by sight
but not Sean and his mate. They had seen belligerent drunks enough in their line of work though to tell the two gents immediately
to take their business elsewhere. And when Sean yelled loudly 'But you let Johnny get in and that son of a b.... ... seacook
is just as drunk as me!' the biggest usher told him that he could get very much in trouble trying to make people deaf by running
around screaming like that and now he would either leave on his own or get kicked on his way. I don't know how Johnny does
it but he seems to have friends everywhere who is always more than willing to save his gorgeous little hide when ever it needs
saving - maybe it's that charm again -o* The only place there was no one to save the little cutie pie was home at 'mutter
Fit' - erm - 'mama' here so when my dear little boyfriend finally did came home at four in the morning with a sorry looking
bunch of flower he had gotten somewhere hoping to use those to pacify the 'dragon' I got mad instead. Yes, yes, I know
- I should have tried talking instead of yelling - but I am a Danish chicken after all ... O.K. maybe I better explain
this to you dear foreigners ... You see, the Danish equivalent of a always worrying Jewish mother is called a hen mother in
Danish so I - as a chicken - sort of can't help imagining all kind of things that could have happened to him while he was
gone. One thing worse than the other like mugging, rape or murder or all three things together - cluck! - Sometimes
I wish I had NO imagination at all! But only sometimes *o* And there he was a little bedraggled and worn out but healthy
enough to ask whether or not I had cooled down some. Which he then promptly found out that I hadn't! So Johnny left again
in a huff.
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