Hank and I sat at the Chinese restaurant near our place.
“This place got closed down three times for serving minors,” he tells me, drawing a picture of what looks like an egg.
“How does that even happen?” I wonder, tearing a chicken wing in half. Hank shrugs.
The waitress passes.
“Excuse me?”
She turns.
“Can I get a mai-tai?”
She nods an walks off.
I frown after her. “Unbelievable,” I mutter. I look back at Hank. He has chopsticks in one hand, pen in the other.
“I want to be ambidextrous,” he informs me. He starts drawing with one hand and eating with the other. A couple of three legged dogs dancing the waltz would have been more elegant. He doesn’t seem bothered.
“I don’t think that is something you just choose, Hank.”
He looks up. “Why not?”
“Well, I don’t know. Just one of those things.”
Hank thinks about it. “Piss on that,” he decides. He goes back to his dance. After a bit, he holds up the napkin he’d been drawing on.
I squint at it; lines and circles.
“What is it?”
He looks at it then at me. “Its people having sex.”
I look closer. “Right.”
Hank smiles. “You see, this way I can draw my porn and masturbate at the same time!”
Something clunks down on the edge of the table. I look up, the waitress looks at me, then at Hank. He smiles. She looks at me again, then scampers off.
Hank goes back to drawing. I take a sip of the mai-tai, it’s strong.
“Dude, I really don’t think you’re just going to be able to make yourself ambidextrous.”
Hank looks up at me, pen still moving, mouth full of noodles.
“And you’re not old enough to drink in bars,” he informs me.
He looks back to his stick figure porn. I think about it. I know it doesn’t make sense, but I can’t find the words to argue.
I decide to go looking for them at the bottom of my glass.
*For more conversations with Hank, click here.
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Extremely interesting post…
An why can´t you be ambidextrous,
ifinn you work on it?
Go for it!
chris
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Haha, thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it. This week is made up of similar stories featuring the same characters. Just Monday-Thursday.
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i see, i hope my timing is right when i open my reader!
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Great scene. Reads like an excerpt from a Coen brothers movie
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Wow thank you. That’s quite a compliment. They are great.
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All your works are interesting, nice blog you got here 🙂
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Thank you very much.
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Man, it’s great to have goals…
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Haha it sure is.
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Great Stories. Thanks for the follow.
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yes, write about him again!
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Oh, I´m lucky, I found myself the way to the Hankstories..; )…Hank is also a creative person and wants to be ambidextrous,to draw his porn and masturbate at the same time…I think there may be something else…..in german “Ambidextrous” can mean also “conniving”.
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huh, I didn’t know that. If you look under ‘series’ there are a bunch of stories titled ‘conversation with hank’
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So here is still a supplementary, as I find appropriate, quotation of my dear grandma: “You can not dance with one “ass” on two weddings” …. hahaha..gut at least here I could sometimes prove the opposite …. Hank can On both sides sure….
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haha your grandma sounds like a wise woman. I think Hank would try to disagree with her but I doubt he’d win that argument.
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ohh, there was never something to win or loose with my grandma…if you fight against her or did the opposit, she said just “Ohh, blow me on my head!” thats was it…she never had really stress with anybody….so as hard the words are, there was nothing afterwards, the same with my mom, we never ever got any punishments in our life like “no TV” “no going out for some time”……
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haha well that sounds nice
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well, it could have ran out worse…
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Did he keep on to be ambidextrous?
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I’m not sure actually
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