‘Cause it’s nice.

Location: The Dresden Room, Los Angeles
Time: 12:42 a.m.

While sitting at the piano bar, I engage in a polite, Swingers inspired conversation with a senior gentleman who was drinking a dirty martini.

Kyle: “Did you get those olives from Nikki?”
Senior Gentleman: “Is that the cocktail waitress?”
Kyle: “No, she’s right over there at the bar.” [Motion with my left hand in the general direction of no one]
Senior Gentleman: “Oh, I don’t think so?”
Kyle: “She’s here all the time. Loves giving out olives…’cause it’s nice.”
Kyle: “She works at Starbucks.”
Senior Gentleman: “Do you work at Starbucks?”
Kyle: “No, my friend was applying for a job there.”
Jayson and Kyle [simutaneously]: “‘Cause it’s nice.”

At this point, I can’t hold it any longer so I turn to Danielle to tell her what just happened. As I do so, Jayson later recounted that the gentleman looked puzzled, turned to him and…

Senior Gentleman: “Whatever.”

~ by Kyle Davidson on June 6, 2007.