Going to the Club
I don’t know about this… When I agreed to go out to the club with Oz, his ex-fiancee, and her best friend, it seemed like no big deal. I’d take a nap that afternoon. We’d go hang out at the club for a couple of hours. We’d have an okay time. I’d come home and at least I got to meet the girl and he got to hang out with someone Oz wanted to keep as a friend.
Today Oz mentioned to her that we may not be able to go because I would be tired after a full day of running around if I didn’t have time for a nap. Of course, this caused her to flip out. Why couldn’t she come out without him? Because he didn’t want to go out with a girl I had never met. He made that decision without me. She offered to pick him up then. Honestly, I don’t want him going out with his ex-fiancee alone if she’s going to be that pushy about having him go out with her when he said that he may not want to go because I’m not feeling up to it. HE may not want to go, not I may not want him to go. It’s all on him in that case. She was being really pushy in my opinion, and in his. She doesn’t see it though, of course. Why would she? For whatever reason, I see this turning into stalker Ranelle all over again. This just leaves me with a very bad feeling about the whole thing. I have a feeling what she wants from him isn’t just a friendship, even if she is "happily married" and has two kids. She’s dropping her kids off at a "anytime daycare" that charges $40 for 6 hours, which just strikes me as shady, especially because of the neighborhood it’s in. Where’s her husband? Probably deployed… And here she is, desperately trying to get my boyfriend to come along on their girl’s night out. At first she really seemed like she wanted to meet me. I guess she wanted to check out the competition. Now she’s all obsessive that he has to go with even if I don’t! I don’t think so! She’s totally set on the idea that it HAS to be this weekend. If they go every weekend, why can’t it be next weekend? Or the one after that? Why does it have to be this one? Thankfully he’s already said if I’m not going, he’s not. She’ll just have to deal and arrange it for another time…maybe…
As if I wasn’t worried enough about my company for the night, the club we’re going to sounds like nothing I’d be interested. It apparently plays a good mix of everything, which pretty much means music that’s popular right now. Unfortunately, I don’t like much in the way of "popular" music. I HATE rap. I’m not a fan of anything inspired by country. There’s a lot of modern rock that I really can’t stand. I don’t see me getting up and dancing alone. I don’t see me getting up and dancing with these chicks. Then again, they aren’t getting there until 11pm anyway, so I doubt by then I’d be up for dancing at all! I’ll be pretty wiped by then! The only kind of club I’ve ever been to that I’ve enjoyed was a goth club. I’ve been to other kinds of clubs, but they’re really not my thing. I just can’t get into it. On top of that, the only real thing anyone does at clubs around here is get drunk and watch people make idiots of themselves when they were drunk. That’s just not appealing to me. That’s one of the things I liked about the goth clubs back home. Getting drunk wasn’t a major part of the agenda. Very few people got drunk. No one busted out into fights. No one acted stupid. People acted like adults. It wasn’t a bunch of college age kids getting drunk and stupid. Then again, even at the normal clubs I went to back home, drinking to eccess wasn’t that common and people rarely fought and got stupid. From what it sounds like here, fights are just part of the territory. If you go to a club and don’t see a fight break out, it’s a rare night.
Then I hear that the club we’re supposed to be going to has apparently become rough territory. Fights break out more often. There have been a couple full scale fights where everyone in the club got involved in some way, or the cops came in and started arresting everyone. That’s not something I really want to go to. Sorry, but I prefer somewhere upscale and classy. Heaven forbid a girl actually have class and some drive to go somewhere that adults actually act like adults!
Finally, these places all have cover charges. I’m sorry, but these chicks are planning to be there at 11pm. That means we’re probably only going to stay an hour, maybe two. I don’t want to be paying a cover charge that could easily be $10 or more on a Saturday night so that I can leave in an hour or two. That’s a lot of money for an hour or two out with these girls! We’ve got to pay a babysitter for that time too, which adds to the expense. Thankfully, she said $10 to watch them until whenever, so that helps. Still, for that much, I could go to the movies and REALLY be entertained. That’s also not counting any drinks Oz or I might have when we get there. Aside from the fact that I’m not getting alcohol, bar drinks are just WAY too expensive. It doesn’t matter what you get, they cost a small fortune! Even sodas they charge you out the tail for because you’re not spending so much in alcohol.
I think this is going to be a one time thing unless I’m completely surprised and have an incredible time. I honestly think I’ve just outgrown the clubbing phase. Yes, I like to go and dance. If there’s a lot of people I know there, it’s a great place to hang out. That doesn’t mean I like going when I’ll only know one person and he’ll only know two other people. I don’t want to go watch drunk people. I’m thinking I’ve just outgrown the normal club scene. Unless there’s music to dance to, I really don’t like being there. Unless I have a crowd of friends to go with, there’s just no point. I may be surprised and have a great time, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
~*~Rave~*~