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Overhead in the Men’s Lockerroom at CA Fitness

November 30th, 2006 · 5 Comments

The Players

Player A: Early 30s, dumbass gym rat in a towel who thinks whitey can’t understand Chinese and would barely move an inch so I could get into my locker

Player B: Oviously in a higher league than Player A and his friends, acting slightly uncomfortable.

A: I’ve got this friend that really wants to meet you. He’s having this sex party, do you want to go?

B: Oh, no thanks, that’s really not my scene.

A: Oh, OK, how about dinner? We could just all go to dinner together?

B: Oh, I am just really busy.

A: Do you have a boyfriend?

B: No, I am just really busy.

A: Are you sure? He’s a really nice guy. He’s married so he doesn’t go out that much.

B: Oh, I am kind of busy.

A: Oh, OK, if you want to meet him sometime, just let me know.

B: OK, thanks.

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5 responses so far ↓

  • Sir Reginald Peepers // Dec 4, 2006 at 1:24 pm

    I always feel a little “left out” too when people at the gym invite friends right in front of me. HELLLO!! Just standing right here, not as if I can’t understand your invitation! Geez!

    I sometimes comfort myself with the idea that if invited I’d probably turn them down anyways. Down here in the tropics, I tend to spend a disproportionate amount of time hanging out in hotel verandas with a gin & tonic in one hand and my pith helmet in the other. We haven’t had time for a “sex party” since my company overextended itself into the Taiwan camphor trade.

  • Jim Skim // Dec 4, 2006 at 1:42 pm

    I thought this was going to have some photos based on the “overhead” mentioned in the titled. Didn’t realize it was just going to be “overheard”. It’s okay and everything, it’s just that I was expecting something totally different.

  • Elmer Fudd // Dec 5, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    I like to think of it as being like one of those ABC after-school specials or the public-service messages they used to include with Saturday morning cartoons:

    A: I’ve got this friend that really wants to meet you. He’s having this sex party, do you want to go?

    B: Oh, no thanks, that’s really not my scene.

    A: Oh, OK, how about dinner? We could just all go to dinner together?

    GI Joe: Hi kids, what’s going on? Are you planning a sex party?

    A: Sure thing!

    GI Joe: Well, having a sex party in Taiwan is something for grown-ups. Just imagine if the cops busted in with Apple Daily photographers!

    B: No way!

    A: Now we know!

    GI Joe: And knowing … is half the battle.

    (fade-out w/ GI Joe song)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C53OYwOwlQ

  • Frank Parsnip, the Dancing Man // Dec 6, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    Like the line: “A: Are you sure? He’s a really nice guy. He’s married so he doesn’t go out that much [to sex parties]”

    Yeah, he sounds like a real prince.

  • Amy // Jan 7, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    “he’s married”
    - !!!!!
    most gay Taiwanese men are deeply closeted, i heard.

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