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“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” Arnold H. Glasgow

Thursday night, I had to cut out from work relatively early because we had a birthday dinner for Corb's brother Scott. We were going out for hibachi and it was just two of us, Scott and his wife Tina and Corb's mom. Scott is now at the age where the kids no longer wish to go.

Ah, hibachi! A chance for us to watch drunk people get sprayed with sake. How fun! We were seated next to one woman who the chef kept drying to soak in sake. She would run off screaming, every time it happened. She was with a mother and daughter combo who I suspect wooden legs. The daughter end of the combo was a petite blonde who had so much sake sprayed into her mouth that she left mid dinner to throw up. She also had just driven twelve hours from Florida to Massachusetts. Gee, I am sure that was a pleasant ride home.

Then there were the five of us. Scott was clearly up for the sake experience and being the birthday boy, willingly complied, like a seal with a bouncy ball, but the rest of us...well, I politely lifted my martini glass to my lips whenever he came close, as a defensive maneuver, Tina made it clear she wasn't gonna have any of that, and Corb's mom mimicked my martini maneuver. 

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