Random Neighbors

So Friday night turns out to be incredibly random. It starts out simply enough...Gavroche comes over after dinner at Sushi Sam's to play some Beirut. We start about 9, and around 12, we've decided that we're not gonna bother with going out to the bars. We'll just play a few more games and call it a night. We're midway through a game when I hear coming from outside, "Excuse me?"

This, of course, is the moment I have been dreading. The moment when a neighbor complains about the noise and puts me on caution mode with the level of my music. I look over the fence of the patio and see a girl standing there. Apparently, she's drunk and has locked herself out of her apartment, which is across the street, and is wondering if she can hang out with us until her friend with her house keys comes back. I'm wondering about her sanity in coming into an unknown house with two guys while faded, but luckily for her, she stumbled upon Gavroche and myself.

So we're chatting, she's watching us play Beirut, talking about her friends and the guy she's waiting on who has her keys. As we're reaching that part of the conversation, her friend shows up. She calls him over and as he gets closer, he starts looking more familiar and as he pulls up to the fence, it's not just her friend, it's our long time associate, Nick H., little brother of Paige. Talk about a small world.

Nick's enthusiasm leads us to play several more games of Beirut before passing out, but the damage, so to speak, the odd and soon to be befriended neighbor who might actually increase alcohol consumption in the apartment, was done. She now knows where to find us, and while she hasn't come knocking on the door yet, I'm sure with how randomly she showed up the first time, it's only a matter of time. Potential future roommate Hosin is excited about this fact...