So tonight at the Karaoke club

near me, there was no Karaoke. Instead there was a DJ, somehow booked there from Baltimore over 100 miles away.I got there after 9 having decided my best priority tonight was to barbecue some NY Steaks on sale for only $4.99 a pound.



Very tasty.

If you know the place you know most of the Karaoke crowd is both regulars and they are there to belt out 1960s Country Western music. Yeah sure, sometimes they wil jump yp into the 70s and try a little Meatloaf or Blondie, but mostly Merle Haggert and Johnny Cash. To say inner city Baltimore contemporary left them cold is perhaps an understatement. Maybe we could blame the profanity or the words bragging of robbing stores and shooting moms, whatever. The bartender told me most of the regulars had left by 8pm. In fact almost eveyone had left and the place was nearly deserted. Out on the deck in back where the music could not penetrate the steel door a few former employees were smoking cigarettes, nursing fireballs and complaining about the booking agent.

A car pulled into the parking lot and three of the aging, drunk, (2 former but fired) female bartenders went inside to scope out the new arrivals. In minutes they returned horrified that although 4 women had arrived, one of them was a tranny. I and the other customer hiding on the deck were told 'it is over 6 feet tall, and has a choker on her neck so you can';t see the adams apple.

Eventually an attractive woman over 6 feet tall with a choker on her neck came out to smoke a cigarrete. To the obvious discomfort of the older crones she stayed and attempted to talk to the other man. He stated he had to go to the bathroom and went inside. I asked her to sit at my table and she did not, but she did come over to talk. I learned she was born in the US but had gone to Germany a decade ago and was only 1 week back in the US with her female HS buddies of long ago...We did not speak of sex changes. Instead we talked about music. We talked about N. Tesla. We talked about the G-7 and how she felt about it living in Germany. We talked about Syrian refugees. I found her to be much more knowledgable about current events than the usual patron of the establishment. I learned she spoke multiple languages and currently teaches English ESL in Europe. I found her to be one of the most pleasant and enjoyable persons to speak with I have encountered there in over a decade. She shared her Facebook page with me and I sent a friend request so we could meet another time. Her friends grew bored and left and she with them. Hopefully we will communicate later this week.

The red neck former female employees on the deck were very catty about her after she left. I was curious so using the information on the Facebook page I did some googling. The redneck women who were opposed to her even existing, well one lives in a rented trailer and the otehr one takes turns shacking up with different male customers of the place. However my new friend with the neck chokler, she owns 3 companies in Europe and owns 4 web pages. I can document she is fluent in at least 4 languages. She is heavily involved in Me Too at a protest organizer level. She has bonafide (i.e., she owns) residences in 3 countries. . She got speeding tickets in S. Carolina but has had no other run ins (compared to the jealous crones, all 3 of whom are convicted drug felons).

My take? I am happy to have met my new friend and hope to see more of her before she goes back to Europe.