A few years ago, at the behest of my friend (let’s call him “Glen”), I went back to my old college for a weekend of drinking, destruction of private and public property, and the shameless exploitation of college freshman too dumb to know better. Basically, it was like all my other weekends, only with more dorm-room fires.
Glen and I go way back, back to a time before he got engaged to a girl who was, essentially, Hitler with breasts. I’d call her Satan, but I wouldn’t want to insult the Devil like that. She’d cheated on him twice, put him down in front of his friends, and generally kept his balls tightly locked in a jar out of his reach. Imagine all this in the body of Rosanne—only more annoying.
True story about the first night I met this train wreck:
I was at Glen’s house attending a party, when someone sat down next to me. They wore a huge, baggy Eminem T-shirt, baggy cargo pants, and a backwards baseball cap. They slung their ass down in the chair next to me, straddling the back of the chair legs wide open.
“’Sup, man?” asked the figure in a guttural growl.
I proceeded to have a conversation with what I assumed was a frat guy for about five minutes before asking, “What’s your name, man?”
“Cindy.” [The name has been changed to protect my friend…really man, what the fuck were you thinking?].
A few months after they started dating, she moved in with him and they got engaged. When I heard that, it was all I could do not to lead a strike force team into Buffalo to break up the impending nuptials. My plan involved a tranq gun, 30 feet of rope and an unmarked grave in the Los Vegas desert. To give you an idea of how much this bitch was loathed, I was able muster 10 volunteers in less than five minutes.
Back to my trip. Cindy didn’t like me. Mostly because I expressed my feelings regarding her glaring faults to Glen. In front of her. And Glen’s parents. Look…if people don’t want to know what I think, they shouldn’t ask me after half a pitcher of Sangria.
Now, I knew that she was a bitch, but I had severely underestimated the extent to which she had pussy-whipped my friend. Because on the car-ride from the airport to Glen’s apartment he said, “Look man. Cindy’s made it clear that she’s not comfortable with strange men sleeping in the apartment with me and her.”
I let this sink in for a moment, struggling to understand.
“Don’t worry.” I said. “I’m not into guys. No matter how much I drink, the odds of me inviting anyone with a penis back to your place are nil.”
“No.” he replied, at least having the courtesy to look uncomfortable. “She means you.”
“Me???” I asked. “You’ve known me for six fucking years now. Does she tell you not to take candy from strangers? And by ‘strangers,’ she means ‘your parents’?”
“Look, I’m sorry. I tried to talk to her, but you know…she insisted.”
I resisted the urge to throttle him. After the studying the ceiling of the car for about 15 seconds, I came to the following conclusion:
I had two options:
Option 1: Throw a fuss, hospitalize the fiancé, possibly wind up in jail and definitely ruin the rest of the weekend.
Option 2: Play nice, blow off my friend, put the incident from my mind and focus on having fun.
For possibly the only time in my life, I went with the more reasonable option. I grabbed my shit, hiked to campus and called up some other friends. The following 12 hours are a blur, mostly because I had vowed to drink nothing but alcohol for the duration of the weekend. I brushed my teeth with vodka, for Christ’s sake.
My crew was halfway through defiling the hot-tub of a nearby hotel when my cell phone rang. It was a text message from Cindy.
“Having a good Weekend?” it read.
I stared at the phone for a second, and started to see spots of rage in front of my eyes. I couldn’t believe what the fuck I was seeing. Now it’s one thing to try to ruin my fun. It’s another thing entirely, having manipulated one of my friends into trying to sabotage me, to call me and gloat.
An awed hush fell over the half-dismantled hot tub as the occupants sensed an Ehren blow-up about to shatter the mood of joviality.
I dialed Glen’s number.
“Hey, man. What’s up?” he asked. The poor bastard had no idea about the shit storm that was about to engulf him.
“Is Cindy there?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
“Put me on speaker phone. Listen here, you fat cunt: Daddy won’t love you no matter how many bull-dykes you go down on. I have no idea why Glen is involved with a post-op trany whore like yourself, but you’d better believe eventually he’s going to sober up and you’ll be back where he found you: sucking dick for crack.”
There was some shuffling at the other end and Cindy started screaming. I hung up the phone and turned to the one friend who could still pass for sober. Dead silence had fallen across the pool area.
“Drive me over there.”
“Are you SURE? I mean, maybe we should just--”
“If you don’t drive me, I’m hot-wiring your car.”
In the end, no one wanted miss the showdown. So 2 minutes later, we were speeding towards the apartment, 12 deep. The rain was starting to pour down, and all I could think of was a samurai film just before the last battle. I suddenly realized I was less concerned about going to jail for assaulting a woman than I was for having to knock Glen out for the opportunity to go to jail for assaulting a woman.
I was out of the car and up the porch before the car came to a full stop.
“You fat fucking pig!” I yelled hammering on the door, still clad in only a bathing suit. “Put down the hot wings, and drag your cottage-cheese ass down here!” I demanded in tones so reasonable, neighbors began opening their windows.
By the time she came flying out the door, most of the neighborhood was on their lawn. My friends were leaning against the cars laughing hysterically, and (I hoped) assembling bail money. Glen was desperately trying to hold his fiancé back…which was tough because she had about 75 pounds on him. Not to mention his testicles.
“You want to gloat about breaking a pussy-starving man? Come on, gloat to my face, you dumb whore.”
“You Bastard! Get the fuck off my lawn!”
I was nose to nose with her. Well, as close to that as you can get to a woman with a 78 inch waist.
“Ehren, come on.” Pleaded Glen.
I stood there for a moment, waiting for her to take a swing while his words penetrated my rage. “Say something now!” she yelled.
I studied her up and down for a moment, then I turned to Glen and in a quiet voice I said, “Glen, she cheated on you twice that I know of. Anyone who would do that, disrespect you and try to turn you against your friends isn’t worth being in your life.”
Then I looked back at her and told her, “You’re the worst person I’ve ever met. I’m leaving out of respect for my friend, but if you really want to get knocked the fuck out, take one step after me.”
With that, I turned and walked back to the car.
Thankfully, they broke up not long after that. And he thanked me for unaviodably calling his attention to the somehow overlooked fact that his girl was a raging bitch. I guess the reasons why my friends keep me around are two-fold:
- My blatant honesty when it comes to unsavory subjects
- My willingness, under the right circumstances, to punch a girl in the mouth.
How do I get the job of scattering sexy rejects from bed amongst my comrades? That's the job I really want.