Agonotheta

Firsts

November 22, 2004

Over the weekend, I did a couple of cool things. One for the first time. One for the first time in awhile.

Friday night, I met up with a bunch of fellow Subaru WRX/STi enthusiasts and checked out each others' rides. I've never done this before and, man, was it fun! There was no competition, it wasn't about who had the better/faster car. It was a gathering of people who have similar interest and enthusiasm for their car. It was a meeting of the minds. Members of this club talked about modifications that they had already done to their car and what the results were. I found out about this meet, as they're called, through one of the forum websites that I frequent. I was very nervous to show up, but once I was there, I had a blast. It took place at Fashion Place Mall, at the food court parking lot. There were probably 50 WRX's and STi's there, but during the course of the evening probably a hundred or so other cars came by and taunted us to race them. Picture a really lame looking Mitsubishi Eclipse with a primered ground effects kit sitting in front of a row of highly moddified, performance-tuned non-aggressive Soobies.

One funny thing that happened was that a police officer in his squad car came by and just sat there shining his spotlight at our cars. He sat there for probably 15 minutes before driving away. Several of the people thought he was checking out the cars, but I think he was trying to either intimidate us into dispersing or seeing if there was going to be a race or something.

I met some very knowledgeable people and made a couple of contacts that can help me do some installations that I don't have the knowledge or equipment to perform. I can't wait for the next one!

The second thing, you know, the one I haven't done in awhile, was go to a theatre party. What I mean by this, is that it's a party where the majority of the attendees were involved in professional theatre in some way. My roommate, Erik, does community theatre and is pretty well connected into that circle.

We went to a party with the cast of the Beauty and The Beast at Pioneer Theatre Company. Nice people, most of them, but it reminded me of why I quit theatre. First, theatre people, by nature love the attention on them. So, they don't really listen to you much in conversation. They always tend to turn the focus to them (moreso even than regular people).

Second, out of about 25 people there, only four of them were female. I wasn't planning on hitting on any girls or anything, so this isn't a huge deal. But come on, the last thing I want to do is hang out with a bunch of effeminate heterosexuals and openly gay men. I just don't. I'm sorry. I got nothing against them. But I have no common interests with them. No common denominator. I mean, let's look at what we were both doing before getting to the party. I was riding a high after watching the Utah Utes destroy the BYU Cougars in football. They came from dance rehearsal where they were dressed as plates, forks, spoons, knives and various other cutlery.