And this drinking buddy had a grudge!
El Torritos, Tyson's Corner, VA, Feb, '94
And btw this guy - my weekly co-worker drinking companion - was suddenly up to something all of a sudden one evening while drinking at 'El Torritos'. Some karate chop thing. And he could do it! He had one of those 9th degree ...
Suddenly he was just looking for an opening. He needed just the right argument to spark it off. And it was all because I wasn't a democrat! Remember, we had been taking for weeks, and apparently my political beliefs had been causing him more and more - a little at a time - to become more and more progressively militant!
And so Martha W. herself (it's true) had to suddenly show up one time - right out of thin air and in the nick of time right next to me at the bar at the Tysons Corner “El Torritos” restaurant to help me avoid the now premeditated, and probably deadly, karate chop! She was suddenly just appearing at the bar right to my left and in full body guise too - not like this or this - but more like this and this - and as soon as I noticed her standing there she then got right to it -
"Hi", she said to me somewhat urgently, "remember me? Hey how have you been?"
And then the tone of her voice suddenly switched to no-nonsense mode because the niceties were over -
"Don't listen to him! Just ignore everything. Like he isn't even there!"
And so I did! And it worked! Even while he was continuing his banter - it worked. It was now like he wasn't even there. It just worked. Like in that "Kung Fu" TV show. It just worked. And he knew it too. And so he then wisely cut it out. His banter. And was henceforth very well mannered. Good thing!
And it should be noted, right now, that the fact that this Divine assistant (yes, Martha W. is now a Divine assistant) could not only foresee the upcoming ill-advised disaster that was brewing from wherever in the universe she was (?) but was also able to easily
APPEAR IN STRIDE
as a bar patron at just the right bar and at just the right time and in just the right guise to
SEEMLESSLY DEFLECT
the potential incursion in just the right way - if that isn't without exception the most astonishing thing that you've ever heard about in your entire life ...
YOU'RE NUTS !!!