brooklyn gal for a while

and the phone rings

When one moves to a new city, what is the first thing relatives always tell you to do? (Well, after the get a job/apt conundrum is solved.) It seems to me there is always a push from someone to join a club; I can hear "get involved" in both my parent's voices. Their reason being that one can make friends in clubs. ( insert the obvious Groucho Marx retort here) But when you think of it, we DO make friends or strengthen friendships through clubs or cliques, as it may be. Examples: high school friends from the volleyball team or "international club"*, fraternities, heck, even playgroup (although we had little choice in the matter)
So, I did join a club, a book club, when I first moved here. I will be honest, the books we choose are not that challenging and we rarely disagree about meaning of plots etc**.
I also joined one of the multitude of online dating things. This has led to meeting the tall man (who has since turned into the no-email-etiquette man***), the sushi dude, and various others.
Well last night the investment in both "clubs" paid off, so to speak. I got a call from J of the book club and one from Jersey guy within 5 min of each other. Now, of course its always nice when a guy calls you, especially when he seems not only decent/non-mental, but actually nice. But, its really great when a gal calls you up to go out for a girls night on the town! And thats just what we did. Drinks in the slope, out to some bars (clubs?) without signs in the LES and even a cab to brooklyn without a fight with the driver! It was a great night out. . . . Yes, I made a friend!


*the club you join so you can go to NYC in the spring without your parents
** the Life of Pi is the big exception to this rule. which ending did you believe? the tiger or the mother? I for one am all about the tiger
*** I did finally block him

posted by gordian knot @ Sunday, December 18, 2005