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It all began one night at my favorite now defunct bar in Georgetown, land of Vineyard Vines, boat shoes, and a strong sense of entitlement. I had befriended the bartenders at this particular bar and was a regular on the weekends. And weeknights. And during the day. I got a lot done in grad school obviously. This particular bar had kind of an Irish dive vibe with a lot of dark wood, slightly sticky floors, and the layout of a multi-level probably historical townhouse that created lots of dark corners and bad decisions.
I and a friend were there on a Saturday night celebrating how responsible we had been that week (read: we only drank four of the available seven days). I was cruising around in my sundress and wedges accepting shots from the bartenders when a particularly suave and heavily gelled blonde gentleman approached me. I looked over to see my friend similarly occupied with a particularly short suitor, and decided to humor his advances. He had a strong accent that drunk me perceived to be Boston, but which I now acknowledge could have been literally anything from Chicago to Long Island.
At some point, he persuaded me with his wit and intellect (muscles and rolled sleeve button down) to accompany him home and assured me it was walkable. We were quickly joined by another slightly shorter guy who bore a vague resemblance to him that he claimed was his cousin. As it turns out, he was only in town for the weekend and was staying at his cousin’s apartment, and would that be okay?
At that point, I didn’t think anything was weird and said it was fine, although I was not looking forward to the couch sex I assumed would result from him being a guest. On the walk home, he and his cousin began jabbering heatedly at each other in Italian, which completely caught me off guard since they had no trace of any accents whatsoever other than the Boston/Chicago/Long Island American. “This is fine and normal,” I thought to myself as we arrived at the apartment. “How cool that they speak another language at home!”
The Italian escalated into finger jabbing, which was apparently an expression of agreement (?) because my suitor turned to me and informed me they had been arguing over whether or not he was allowed to have the bed instead of the couch. “Oh, don’t worry about it, I’m sure we can make do on the couch! I don’t want to inconvenience your cousin!” I insisted, trying to remember my good manners when a guest in someone’s home. My mother would be so proud!
“No, don’t worry about it, he agreed to sleep on the couch,” my guy informed me, leading the way back to the bedroom. “He has to defer to me because I outrank him in the family.” Ummmm… what? “Do you mean like… you’re older?” I asked. “No, he’s older than me. I just outrank him,” he replied nonchalantly. “We’re in business together.” At this point, we started hooking up but all my drunk little brain could focus on was trying to unravel this entirely illogical statement. He never offered any clarification, and I declined the sleepover offer, not wanting to further inconvenience his poor cousin regardless of familial rank. Or get involved in any “business.”
Okay, so he didn’t come out and say straight up, “WE ARE IN THE MAFIA,” and I’m sure some of you will say I’m jumping to conclusions. However, if that’s the case, I have some questions. Like… what kind of fucked up family are you in that ranks its children? What are these rankings based on? Is this like a Hunger Games scenario where you make them fight to become stronger people? Is their grandfather some sort of megalomaniac who can’t decide who to leave the company to so he makes his grandchildren compete in a weird Willy Wonka style contest to see who would make the best CEO?
Yeah, you try and come up with a scenario with an innocent explanation for this. I’ll wait. And that, friends, is the time I went home with a guy who may or may not have been in the Mafia. And they all lived garbagely ever after. .
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Quinn Truflais
Formerly known as Queen of The Garbage People. Functional title still stands. Dog owner, whiskey drinker, Star Wars fangirl. #DoingItForTheContent QuinnTruflais@gmail.com
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Graduated from grad school. Starts second paragraph with “I and a friend.”
Who said I wrote these sober?
Hemingway didn’t have spell check. Yeah, clean that shit up.
Write drunk. Edit sober.
So Harry Potter and rolled up button downs is all it takes huh? Sup?
Listen, whether you’re garbage or not, I don’t judge on that (although I’m very much qualified). Throwing my name in there, a little unnecessary. Unless you were trying to get my attention, then “Sup?”
Your stories are entertaining but the garbage thing needs to stop.
She’s the queen tho
Give me a good reason. :*
More likely a ranking of likelihood to get on Jersey Shore than the Mafia
Was the title for this article changed? The first paragraph just doesn’t seem to fit.
Haha, yeah, it was originally “a guy who may or may not have been Family.”
That’s on me.
So he may or may not be your cousin?
Article titles are turning into click bait. With the whole revamp of the “look” you’d think they’d decide to look at how they title articles and make it a little more professional.
The title I changed it to was actually more concise and less click baity.
You’re right, it’s not necessarily click bait. But, other than the news stories, a lot of the articles titles just give you the story right to you rather than inviting you to read what the story is.
So based on what you just said, you actually want more clickbait.
I left her title the exact same as she submitted it aside from changing “family” to “in the mafia.”
Nah, I’m just saying don’t give me the exact story in the title. I don’t know, I might be talking out of my ass.
Badda bing badda boom
Yo, it doesn’t look like they’re posting my article, so, try the following scotches: Glenfiddich 12yr, Johnnie Walker Double Black, Laphroaig 10yr, Glenmorangie, and MacCallan 12yr. Don’t touch: Johnnie Walker Red or Blue, Grangestone and Dewars.
Judas drank Johnny Red
Thanks brother
What’s your opinion on Ron Swanson’s scotch, Lagavulin?
Damn good stuff, but definitely not a beginner scotch. Start with Laphroaig then do Lagavulin. They’re both Islay scotches.
I’m about this
You respond to every comment except mine, the top comment. Ok, I see how it is.
I’m an equal opportunity commentor.
Not you Jesus (mad respect), talking to Queen Garbage.
Fuck, I’m on the app and I saw it wrong. Forgive me.
To forgive is divine, bro.
Truly, the Lord is with you!
Sup?
In a sober situation, I would say that there’s no way they were actually in the Mafia. People that are involved in that shit don’t talk about it. But, assuming they were drunk, maybe he let it slip.
Congrats on the sex.
Defunct Georgetown Bar, “had kind of an Irish dive vibe with a lot of dark wood, slightly sticky floors, and the layout of a multi-level probably historical townhouse that created lots of dark corners and bad decisions.”
Guards, Rhino, or Third Edition?