Thursday, February 23, 2006

Lucas: The Prequel

I was eating calamari and sipping my water when Ben and Josh arrived at Vinny T's and joined me at the table. "Our waiter's cute," I said to Ben as he was sitting down.

"Really?" he asked and started looking around. I immediately started to worry that Ben wouldn't think he was hot. Lucas came over, took Josh and Ben's drink orders and went off again. Ben turned to me: "Oh yeah," he said, in that way that he has, which really means, "was there ever any doubt?" I felt relieved that Ben agreed with me. Josh rolled his eyes.

When Lucas forgot the third special, even after standing in front of us wracking his brain for more than a full minute while I tried not to laugh, Ben was enchanted and Josh was bored. Later, there were whispered exclamations like, "He touched your shoulder!" Then Ben said, "I can't get a read on his sexuality."

"I think he's gay," I said.

"I don't think he's gay," Ben said, "but he's really schmoozing that table of homos next to us." This was true. Lucas had inquired if the only empty seat at the table of six men was for him. We never came to an agreement about his sexuality and he offered no further clues to sway our opinions.

We decided to go back and investigate further.

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