Well, the night out went well, er? 
Well, it started off fairly good, but towards the end, it was another thing entirely; and I began to wish I’d gone to the twins party! 
Before I left, I got asked for “The Stuff” by Mike in a private conversation on our media site, so I made up a batch of my ‘Party mix’ into a TOGO bottle:
IShine 5mcg (10 sprays), IO 5mcg (10 sprays), CTTM V2 2.5mcg (5 sprays), TUTH 5mcg (5 sprays) and P96 12.5mcg (10 sprays) - 1200mcg divided by the 40 (Approx) sprays you get in a TOGO bottle = 30mcg of mixed mones per spray!
Remember EH’s party, were pretty much I had a blast all night and felt like a) I hadn’t drank all night and; b) Everyone seemed socially active around me. Only thing I didn’t do was the 8 dabs of hedione. Didn’t even think about it to be honest, but then, this was a night out with a friend. I wasn’t out looking to pick anyone up that’s for sure! As far as I was concerned, it was a night out to chat, relax and have a laugh.
So, as I went to leave in my taxi for the 20 minute journey to the City centre bar that I was meeting Mike in, I got a call off of another friend whom neither of us have seen for nearly 3 years!! Mark, our other friend had been contacted by Mike to ask if he wanted to go out for a few drinks; and it was he whom had called me to ask for the meet-up location - great!!
We both get to the bar 30 minutes later than planned; and Mike uses my cell to text another one of his friends to see if he is out to play and wanting to join us?!! This guy never seems to have any credit on his phone, so instead of me writing the text, as I have a nice old K700i, I made him do it, lol. That took the best part of 15 minutes would you believe and it gave Mark and I a chance to catch-up on what each of us were doing. Text sent, we sat down in the corner of the bar and notice this guy going around from table to table appearing to ask the customers something; and they’d all look back with a “Are you joking with us?” look. Eventually, he gets to us and it turns out that this particular bar is selling a new lager by Guinness; and would we basically like free glasses of the stuff, lol!! Ask 3 thirsty guys another daft question, of course we would, lol!! 
Well, one things for certain, I don’t think I could manage the 3rd free pint, it was nice, but it felt like I was drinking cement, a heavy lager, but it was free; and like I said, nice. Had to have our photos taken each time we got a pint, mind, so that the dude offering it to us, got paid, or at least that was the story he was telling us, lol. 
So, we’re having a laugh, catching up on old times and I decided to go to the bar and get a bottle of beer, well corona with a nice slice of lime. Next thing I know, I have this guy asking me for my autograph!! Say what??!! 
Turns out, this guy thinks I’m a footballer (Soccer player), lol. Tried everything to convince this guy he’d mistaken me for someone else, but he turned to his mates and they all started chanting “Franny Jeffers,” all over the bar, lol!! Thing is, up until that point, I had know idea who they were going on about, lol, I follow ice hockey more than soccer, still I just smiled and went back to my friends, sadly followed by this guy, lol! Mike was like, “What are they all going on about?” I told him; and he burst out laughing saying, “Now that you mention it, you do actually look like him, lol!” Yeah, thanks for the support. Took a good 10 minutes for mike and mark to get through to this guy that I was just a normal guy out with friends for a quiet drink (Plus free lager, lol). Unfortunately, the entire bar was now chanting “Franny Jeffers, we love you!” Over and over, lol, with mike and mark in stitches laughing!
So, yeah, that was probably the best the night could of gone! We stayed another 20 minutes then left, with Mike eager for some reason to go to another bar. I’d heard of it. Never been in it. Why? Well, it was deemed a ‘bikers’ bar; and we’re all dressed for going clubbing, lol.
At this point, I pulled out my ‘Party Mix’ TOGO bottle, as I was becoming a tad merry from the free lager, plus what I’d also consumed on top of it, to have Mark go, “Whoa, what is that?!!” Mike was like, “Don’t spray me with that, not after last time!” Funny really, seeing as he’d asked me to bring it out with me!! 
Had to then tell Mark about the last time “The Stuff” got used, lol. Mark all the way down to the bar, the 10 minute walk kept questioning if it worked, lol; and I asked a few times if he wanted a spray; and he was one second saying “Yes,” then another saying “No!” So in the end, when he wasn’t looking, as we approached the bar, I hit him with 2 sprays to the back of his neck and didn’t say another word, lol. Well, mark is skeptical about everything, mones clearly one of them. Don’t know what he’s afraid of. We’d tried, Mike and I, all night to find out what job he had now; and he was being guarded not to say what it was.
Safe to say we were indeed over dressed when we went in to the bar! Indeed, this place was not like any bar I’ve ever been in, nor did I think I’d leave in one piece if I’m honest. A vampires lair, as all eyes were on us as we went in; and yeah, I was a tad nervous to say the least. Crazy thing was though, on my lovely friends heading straight for the upstairs toilets, leaving me at the bar to order, did I spot an old work colleague in the corner of the bar with a group of his friends; and he came over to say “Hi.” Nice guy, Martin; and we had a brief chat whilst the other two had gone missing!
Well, when they came back, it soon became apparent why we where in this bar!! Mike was attempting to locate a young woman called ‘Beth’ that he’d met up a week or so earlier at one of his theatre workshops! Okay, let’s just rewind here. Mike is about 10 years older than me, has a partner; and that weekend, she was in Dublin visiting family. Yeah, my so-called friend Mike was effectively cheating on his partner with this young 26 year old; and it dawned on me why he wanted to go out on Friday, why it had to be Friday, as I’d originally suggested Thursday, it was because ‘Beth’ was out and about in this bar on Friday, he’d arranged to meet-up with her at the workshop. Nice eh! We have a name for people like that - rats. It’s not the first time he’s done this to this partner either, he did it 2 years back with another girl he met at one of these workshops. Let us also not forget the flat party I got invited to. That too was a night out where his intentions was to pick up someone. So, Mark and I were basically the stop gap in between; and possibly the rest of the night in the event that ‘Beth’ never turned up!! Even Mark twigged when ‘Beth’ came down and joined us all. Stranger still, it would appear that mike had competition, lol. This guy in an iron maiden t-shirt kept coming down, ignoring all of us and asking Beth to go back upstairs to join him! She was like, “No, I’m staying here with Mike!” In the end, she gave in; and we all went upstairs to a smaller bar area, with some guy walking round dressed in a white suit. Looked like one of the villains out of a James bond movie, lol, proper creepy looking!!
Anyhow, the ‘Party Mix’ was clearly taking effect on Mark as he was no longer quiet! He was sat next to a couple clearly trying to have a quiet drink, Mark sat next to the lady. Clearly the mix was having a reaction on all those around, even I overcame the fear of being in unfamiliar territory. Well, the couple next to Mark suddenly came to life; and don’t ask me how or why, but the lady reached into her bag, pulled out her cell; and started to show Mark photos of her kids, lol! Then, we had the “Guess our age game?” Started by Mark, lol, certainly put a smile on my face yet again!! What do I keep saying? I don’t look my age, feel 26; and forever get told I’m between 26 and 31! Well, yep, I am indeed apparently 26, lol!! I give up. Tempted to go to the Births Marriages and Deaths office and have my birth certificate amended to reflect what everyone keeps telling me, lol. To be fair we thought the couple were in their late 40’s/early 50’s, shock on us when we heard the lady say she was 29; and the guy was 39. Mark was on a role, never seen him like that, never seen him so lively, talking non-stop to complete strangers, even found out his job, he was that comfortable telling us all, including the couple whom seemed to now be talking to us like we’d known them for years, lol. Then sadly, I looked to my left and Mike was now chewing the face off of Beth with iron maiden dude looking on in desperation sat at the very next table!
Why do people do that? I can’t grasp the way some people have to go behind their so called loved ones back and effectively cheat on them with one or more people! It’s just wrong in my book; and I would of thought by now he’d of learnt the error of his ways, but I guess not!!
So, this kind of went on for another hour and mark and I in the end got fed up of it. So much for our night out, Mike clearly was using us; and I was expecting my cell to go with Mike’s partner on the end checking up to see if he really was out. Yes, that really has happened repeatedly when we’ve gone out on nights out with his partner calling me, to check-up on the person she’s been with for a number of years, almost like he’s been saying he’s been with me on other nights, when he’s probably been out with someone else!! How she got my number, I do not know, but each time she rings, I just hand my phone to Mike. Didn’t get this, this time around, kind of wished I had, would of loved to see the look on both their faces when I said, “Here, this call is for you, your partner is on the phone!”
Still, there was a sudden call amongst the other revelers in the bar to move onto another club, a 3 level bar/club that I’ve not been to for a couple of years. It has different music on each level, one being rock. The top floor is more my liking with the dance/trance/edm music, with the occasional Japanese tech/trapara thrown in every now and then depending on which DJ is playing that night! Nothing like being ale to keep up with the handful of Japanese 20 somethings doing their tech/trapara dance moves and giving me strange looks on wondering how I know them, lol. Easy, I used to write/produce music for the Japanese scene a few years back, sell it over there, hehe.
Back to the night out before I do one of my ‘off track’ thoughts! So, Beth was apparently going to this venue, as was the dude and his fan club in the iron maiden t-shirt! Mike, he didn’t want to go, wanted Beth to leave with him, so everyone ended up at the bar downstairs. Well, this girl is definitely a player, as she was now stood talking with/interacting with the other dude. Mark went the toilet again with the words that he was calling it a night and going home afterwards! Mike and I went outside; and on mark joining us, we made our way slowly (Without Beth) towards where you’d get a taxi. Mark on the other hand just happened to say that iron maiden dude was getting a tad full-on with Beth. Great. Mike did a u-turn straight back to the bar!! Seriously?!! Only one thought in my mind, he was off for a fight. Split between mark and mike, I said my goodbyes to mark, said Id go and keep mike from starting anything. Well, he was in the bar when I got there, stood against a wall just looking at Beth and iron maiden dude just staring at each others eyes!! Okay. Could see Mike clench one of his fists! Said to him, “Don’t do it, it’s not worth it!” He then tried grabbing at Beth’s arm; and she just ignored him! Told him again; and you could just see he wasn’t interested, so I said, “I usually defend you when someone attacks you, but not for this! This is wrong and you know it! I’m sorry mate, but you’re on your own from here on in, I’m caling it a night! I suggest you think long and hard and do the same!” With that I left. Yeah, like I said a good night to start off with, then everything went downhill later on!
So, you’d think that would be the end of it, but nope, next morning Mike is on the social media site in a private message telling me of the great night he’d had the night before! For him yeah, mark and I, no. So I asked if he went home alone; and he said he did not long after me, as Beth and the dude went off to the other venue! He went on to say he’d see her again this week, probably Friday; and wanted to then know if I wanted to go out again on, FRIDAY!! Seriously?!! Not a chance, I don’t support ‘Rats’ cheating on their partners, not flipping happening!! It was done to me years ago, kind of one of the reasons I stopped going out with people, kind of lost the ability to trust! Brings me back to Rachel. She’s been in that position herself by ‘rats’; and yeah I know what you’ve posted Dee, but her store is now closed for a month. Plus side; and I’m hoping beyond hope that I see her, is that she’s going to Creamfields on Saturday!! Sometimes I wish I had the ability to turn back time, do and say things differently, ah, no such luck. Even Coral was saying in a private chat 3 days ago that I might see Rachel on Saturday, almost like I get the impression that they’ve been told something by Rachel, whether to keep it secret, but not giving me the whole story, almost like people are willing me to do something, say something.
Maybe she’s reading this, who knows? She had her own forum login since June, but I don’t think she’s used it yet. Could be wrong, it took me 2 months before I made my 1st post, reading everything on the forums first, before creating this journal and eventually as of October last year, opening up with things I’ve kept to myself for what feels like an eternity! A great relief from doing that, even more so from what I posted in December. I feel normal again, although can anyone call the images I see before me normal? Nope, but then I only know of one person that has a similar if not same mind. Only thing I need to do now is follow my heart, do what it tells me; and hope beyond all hope that the person it falls for also has those feelings. One more day to go; and I might be lucky enough to find out. Fingers crossed.
Ah, it’ll be like the apartment in December when I did the DJing. I’m there for the music, if I’m lucky to see Rachel, then well, we’ll see.
Speak later.
NH.
Actually, I don’t want her to go either! She’s a great friend; and like many that I wished had come from my restaurant, permanently, I’m going to be sorry to see her go!! 
Worst still, this particular engineer along with another one of his colleagues had the joy of installing our particular machine 2 and a half weeks back before we opened; and had to contact the Company’s support service over in America as they too had problems getting it to work!! I’m not the only one then, lol!! 
Even the on/off switch on the back of the machine for the ice production unit has 3 positions! Are you ready for this? The engineer was told by the US support team that, that switch in the factory may have been installed the wrong way up; and that it only had one working position - ‘ON’ - yet, the support team could only say if the ice didn’t refreeze after cleaning, then the switch should be pushed to another position and well, you had to wait 30 minutes each time to find out if you had found the right ‘On’ switch, lol!!