Hockey games, sunburns, pickup lines and free meals

Tony Mach.
4 min readMay 17, 2022

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I woke up after sleeping in and it was lovely, I spent quite a bit of time on my phone but rapidly decided to instead go to Starbucks — I had a conversation with Taras about why I go so often and settled on the pleasantness of the walk. I waited in line for a little while (being 20–30 min) and spoke to the man in front and the lady behind. It was extremely busy inside. The lady behind me was anxious about using her coupon before it expires and I was about to let her pass but then she started to talk about how *technically* she was here before me but forgot something in the car. Now the thing is that while at first I was not against it after she said that she is entitled to that spot I strongly disagreed. No one is deservant. Fuck that. I ordered before her in a pleasant way. I recognized that the lady was simply not pleasant. Oh well. I also like the girl who works at starbucks and want to ask her out sometime.

I walked home and coined the terms million dollar smiles. I was tired and sore and decided that I wanted to eat a little protein to recover. I smiled to many people on the way there and on the way back. It was a sunny, happy day and I felt it in the outlook of the people I passed. I cooked my steak, watched a great hour of netflix and ate a sandwich. I went to pick up Xavier’s sweater by bicycle and took Highway 7 — it was etremely tiring and hot, I did not really want to do it but I did it anyways. I got there and picked up the sweater, Kobe seemed tired and I asked about how he was doing — we got to talking about stress, family and how guys are really easy to befriend. I raced him on Steeles for a fwe streets but he soon overtook me, I really did not want to do any hills and so I decided to instead go to aroma — which I reached by riding up a hill. I sat down as I usually do and asked a girl to watch my bike. I went inside and a bum girl who didn’t seem too bummish asked if I could help pay for part of her food. I decided to pay for all of it. She also wanted to give me some money to pay back — she wanted to spend everything she had on the meal. Screw it I thought, she ay benefit more from this meal than me and at the very least she could stand to benefit — more than I do from a cocktail.

I also noticed Luna working at the coffee bar and had a brief conversation with her. She was still gorgeous. I talked to the girl who looked after my bike because she was extremely cute and we had a pleseant conversation. We made rough plans to go out the next day. Cycling back home I made an effort not to make a mental expectation of seeing her again. I tried to disconnect what I wanted to what will be — namely us actually meeting vs. just having that one conversation.

Oh well, I made it home burnt and tired and decided to take it easy. It was an unproductive day but I enojyed it anyways. I did get a little work done but not as much as I’d hoped. That’s okay. I talked to Tjis over the phone. He sounded more tired than he used to. I ate something I’m pretty sure — a pepper maybe. Then I kept going — watched a show. I had a plesant but mediocre time I’m pretty sure. Around 7/8 I left to meet Taras + Victor to watch a Leafs game in a bar — it didn’t work out (finding a table I mean) and we stood in the crowds outside the stadium. I want to learn how to tell myself to go home earlier.

I feel that I need to eat protein but I do not want to eat egg whites. It was fun! We had drinks and stood around making comments to people. Taras and Victor met two girls — one eastern and another chinese who we went for drinks with. On the way there it was a fun conversation — a little odd but fun. I talked to a super serious vetran from Qatar who was talking about how he is responsible.

— This is what I remember on Monday:(wrote this instead of sunday’s edition)

The day before I remember not accomplishing much but still heading out for the hockey game — both days were labelled as rest days — Taras is starting to take a toll :O I am going to return to my own groove. Yes.

Anways, yesterday I woke up at a medium time (9/10am) I went out for grabbed a coffee during an extremely busy time at Starbucks in a massive line up where I was helped by the pretty girl who I don’t know the name of. I made conversation with the man in front and the lady behind and I made sure to put myself first and did not let her pass. I smiled and walked along my path back home — I stopped at NoFrills for beef. I also thought about the fact that I’m “back on the diet”. I felt a little down during the middle of the day but not siginificantly — finished the Polish show about the drug dealing step son and cycled to Kobe’s store to pick up a sweater. On the way back I went to the gym for some light work.

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Tony Mach.
Tony Mach.

Written by Tony Mach.

astronaut runner doctor person. give or take a bit.

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