A Great Head of Hair

"Everyone's lives are like a very long sidewalk.  Your sidewalk is like mine but hopefully not as many cracks."
-as heard while watching the 2009
Austrailian film
"MARY AND MAX"

Twenty-five years ago today

May 16, 1986
Friday

All right it’s the end of another week. Work was okay…or at least what I can remember of it.

I telephoned Ric Green at his work number just to surprise him. I found his work telephone number on his credit information via his residential telephone account.

I went cycling and ran into Birda Briggs who happened to be riding at the same time.
“I just got back from Pismo Beach,” Birda said as she was a little out of breath.
“Oh wow…I’ve never been there.”
Birda went on to share more about the Central coastal area of California. Her job with Sanchez Trucking takes her on all sorts of road trips here, there and everywhere. I was reminded of the many places I have yet to visit.
PHOTO: Birda Briggs

I quit bike riding at 7:45PM and was wondering if Ric had tried to call me as we were planning to meet Steve Green and his Doctor Peter ‘friend’ at MacArthur Park in Palo Alto. Just when I arrived home Ric telephoned.
“Okay Ric…I’ll be at your house by eight-thirty.”

I was there as I had confirmed and we arrived in Palo Alto by nine o’clock.

Steve’s professor friend (Peter) is fifty-two years old. He is white-haired and was a pretty nice guy. He was NMT (Not My Type) in terms of anything else though. I expected some words of wisdom but was rather disappointed.
The Professor complimented me by saying, “You have a great head of hair!”
That was nice (I guess).

We had a few drinks there. Tim, the waiter, was also a friend of Steve’s. He was pretty nice, too. Tim bought us a round of drinks.

We left by a quarter past ten o’clock and went to a club in San Mateo called B STREET. It was okay. I met two guys named Doug and Rick who happen to be the current roommates to George Jones. They weren’t the same two guys that I thought I knew.
A drunken woman named Maria said to me, “You look like Ted Danson in CHEERS…only better looking.”
Wow…last week I got Remington Steele and this week I get Ted Danson (too funny).


I saw a new guy that works in my office. His name is Paul Lim.
Paul came up to me and said, “Hi Michael.”
I said, “Hi!”
That was the extent of our conversation. I’ll ignore and keep away from that one at the office as if he were the plague. It would have been neat to see George Jones but he had another engagement on this very night (per his roommates). I did see Rick from my gym there which was also a bit of a surprise. Then again…it wasn’t too surprising.


We all left and some guy named Richard followed us to Ric’s house in Hayward. I guess he perked an interest in Ric.


Steve and I “hot-tubbed” for a while and then went to bed.

"You yourself said I should go about in the world, that means taking risks."
-Lucy Muir
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", 1947 motion-picture