I Still Suck At Coop's

after the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2/tropic thunder movie, the plan for everyone was to meet up with my friend (hot amy). hot amy has been excited of late because her new beau was visiting for the week and she wanted everyone to meet him. as it turns out, my friends (pam and ed) were also coming up from bon jovi's home state of new jersey to meet the mystery man. (i probably should clarify that... pam and ed are not coming up from new jersey just to meet hot amy's new beau... they were coming back to visit family and incidentally had the opportunity to meet hot amy's new beau.)

as it turned out... the original plan of dinner with hot amy was not happening. instead, the plan became bowling with hot amy. so, karen, jen, kerry, bill and i ate at the fours in quincy beforehand... to which kerry recognized a former teacher and karen recognized a former neighbor. when we finished, all of us (except bill because he had to feed the dog) headed to the bowling alley known as o'lindy's in quincy. the only problem... hot amy, her new beau, and hot amy's bff (andrea) were not finished with their own dinner and would not be meeting us there for some time.

by the time they were to arrive at the bowling alley, there would not be enough time to actually meet the mystery man as o'lindy's closed fairly early... so bowling was not a viable option. so with dinner out... and bowling out... we went with plan c... coops. it should come as no surprise to anyone that coops was the final destination even though we were there last week, because hot amy is a big fan of the place. in fact, i was figuring that it was either going to be coop's, blue 22 or the former sarsfields which is now widely known as the clash of the ash.

lucky for me, i still suck at coop's. after a quick pitstop at frozen freddie's in quincy for some ice cream (for karen and kerry), all of us finally got to meet hot amy's new beau at coop's bar and grill. pam and ed arrived later, so they were also able to meet hot amy's new beau (andy).

anyway, it was interesting.

(pictured below is andrea's new tattoo from vegas.)


in general, i tend to be low key when meeting my friend's new significant others. after all, i don't want to immediately scare them away. i am guessing my single friends would probably not like it too well if i scared away any potential suitors. thus, i tend to listen and observe the person throughout the course of the night and then formulate my own thoughts afterwards... not that i would share them with anyone anyway because that never does any good whether my opinion is favorable or not.

besides, who would want to listen to my opinion anyway? if anyone wants to know whether a potential significant other is good or not, they should consult pam's dad. i hear he is a good judge of character... and i'm not just saying that because (according to pam's mom) i am his favorite... second to ed of course. to this day, i still have no idea as to why i am one of pam's dad's favorites... i am simply assuming it is because i exude awesomeness...

regardless, i hope things work out with hot amy and andy.