Free Shampoo by Karina Almeroth Page B

is now called
Elanor),
     
    then Saturday night most of us from Sin went
out to Panchos
     
    (my FAV PLACE ON EARTH)
     
    at Balmoral – me, Nat, Dan, Benny, Melissa, her
boyfriend Nathan, Sars, Ryan, Paul, Little Jonny, oh my God who
else…so many of us.
    First we went to the Balmoral Hotel, where
apparently
     
    (according to Dan and Nat)
     
    I kept standing on tables and yelling “My name
is Otto, and I love to get blotto!”
    So I was in fine form off of tequila shots by
the time we reached Panchos.
    Now I love Panchos cause it’s the one place in
Brisbane I can get on tables and not get kicked out. They seriously
have a blackboard on the ceiling that you stand on the table and
draw on.
    This family pizza restaurant is full of penis
drawings on their ceiling.
    I didn’t even make it onto the tables at
Panchos however. I was so drunk Sara was taking care of
me
     
    (stern, serious Sars was laughing her head off
at me – forever here to entertain, I am),
     
    and I WOULD’VE BEEN FINE, if damn Nathan hadn’t
dared me to eat that anchovy.
    Soon as I bit it, I started retching, then
started vomiting right there, at the table.

    (it was the damn anchovy that made me spew
madly, not all that tequila)

    Luckily everyone found it so funny. I can only
get away with this behavior with these people.
    Then I rolled down my window in Dan’s car and
spewed, causing massive vomit streaks all along the side of his
car.
     
    (not the first time, and won’t be the
last!!)
     
    THEN I woke up to Sharon from
     
    (the loony bin)
     
    downstairs informing me I threw up all in her
flower bed and asked me was I aiming for her cat, cause I seemed to
be chasing it around and trying to spew all over it.

    Worse, I was wearing my pink Sin shirt at The
Balmoral Hotel and Panchos. Dreading Monday.
    Dinner was sure over in a hurry after I spewed
all over everyone’s pizzas.
     
     
     
    Monday 24 July 2000
    6.34pm

    Word got round very quickly about my
performance at Panchos. Someone dobbed me in I’d been wearing my
Sin shirt too.
    “ Pinky!!” John Cash boomed. “I hear
you projectile vomited all over a restaurant in Balmoral while
wearing your Sin shirt??”

    (oh God. Here’s where I get fired)

    “ Good job, Pinky!” DY yelled out. He
came out of his office. “You make us look young and hip acting like
that!!”
    “ Don’t you mean drunk and stupid?”
chimed in Gerry.
    Renee laughed her ass off (best office manager
ever!!).
    “ Everyone, I want you to take a page
from Pinky’s book!! Spew in public places while wearing your Sin
shirts!”
    Nat was shaking her head. John Cash added,
“Maybe we should give Pinky a bonus for promoting young, hip
haircare so well?? She should be the new face of Sin!!”
    Oh God, only in this office could that
happen.
     

     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 5
EVER OVER…ALREADY??
     

Tuesday 25 July 2000
    5.55pm

    Got a bad cough AGAIN. That’s about
it.
    Evvy has soccer tonight.
    The bastard.
     
    6.53pm
    Oh my god, so he calls. And it was
AWFUL.
    I can’t believe I’m wasting body liquid on him
by crying.
    He has hurt me FOR THE LAST TIME.
    “ I never wanted a relationship,” he
began.
     
    (terrible beginning. Terrible, terrible
beginning)

    “ OH HERE WE GO – ”
    “ I told you I didn’t from the
beginning – ”
    “ Did you?? Did you
really??”
    “ UGH, YES I DID!!”
    “ Whatever, Evvy – ”
    “ WHATEVER, WOMAN!!” Pause. “I just
don’t want to have to rush over and kiss you!!”

    (pull the knife out of my heart
NOW!!)

    “ You’re right, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE
TO. You should WANT TO!!!”
    “ There’s no talking to you, woman.
There’s nothing I can say or do.”
    “ Yes, THERE IS.”
    “ No, THERE’S NOT.”
    “ Trust me, there is
PLENTY!!”
    Silence.
    “ Bye Everard!!” Another slam the
phone down moment.
    I hate him!!
    I hate myself for caring.
     
    9.32pm
    So tired but can’t sleep. Keep thinking I’m
never gonna see Ever again and getting