I was going to hold off till I met some more BL'ers but hell - they can get their own post.
I am here to publicly praise both
potato and
iamtha1.
Picking up someone that is realistically a bit of a stranger (save for a common interest of a certain message board) from the airport at 10pm on a Saturday night...proceeding to get completely and utterly slaughtered on alcohol then offering me a place to crash and a guided tour of the city on a hungover Sunday.
That is the kind of treatment one would usually expect from family, so I mean it when I say I was so touched by the acts.
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potato - Inviting me into his place and topping up my glass with wine I got the impression that he is one chilled out dude with a wild streak.
Add to this, while he was trying to sleep he had to endure me talking Jaeger-fueled jibberish until daybreak on his outside couch not even
7 metres away. A huge drive and a full-on day roadtrip he had to go on were mere hours away... and he acted like it was the most normal and un-annoying thing in the world to have me shooting my mouth off till dawn.
Even earlier in the night when the alcohol started taking total control over my motor functions and I started using words like "abortion" to describe things... ("That kebab... that kebab tasted like a goddamn abortion") or when I tried unsuccessfully to repeat the famous anti-funny "
Aristocrats" joke, which would have had lesser hosts politely telling me to get the hell out... even then he didn't raise an eyebrow.
Relaxed. Easy to get along with. Animated. Good stories. Someone I really enjoyed meeting and am looking forward to catching up with again before I zoom back to
htreP.
iamtha1 - Been looking forward to meeting her for a while. She is so totally tiny. The poor thing was stuck with me from 10pm on Saturday night until early Monday morning, not only giving me a guided tour of the city on 2 hours sleep but also offering me a couch to crash on for my second night in Melbourne. Energetic to the extreme I had to forcibly knock back caffeinated drinks just to try to keep up.
Totally hospitable and kind enough to give me a crash course in "Tram Riding 101", she is also funny as hell and had me cracking up throughout the day.
While being able to talk shit with the best of them, she could also slip right into "real topics" mode and easily hold her end of conversations for topics other than smalltalk.
Small. Welcoming. Boundless energy. A charmingly wired personality.
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Either way I have been completely blown away by the hospitality and friendliness displayed by both of the first Eastern States BLer's I have met.
Still looking forward to more drinks with them and meeting some other new characters.