What Are We Gonna Do With All This Trash?: Petey Tours America, Phase II

July 29, 2010

Petey Tours America, Phase II - Providence, RI

Actual view of the Rhode Island Statehouse from my swanky hotel room--hey, your tax dollars have to go somewhere. Cheers!

Ahh, now this city is more to my liking (sorry, KC denizens). Providence definitely has a major East-Coast-major-metropolis air about it... i.e. everything is in walking distance, old architecture interspersed among modern architecture, good food & drink, interesting graffiti, plenty of hipsters (I know because they had sleeve tattoos and expensive eyeglass frames).

Speaking of good food & drink, the Trinity Brewhouse served one of the best corned beef Reubens I've ever had, and more importantly, one of the best pints of beer I've EVER had (White Coffee something something Stout)...now you know I take my beer very seriously (born with a .02), so this is no off the cuff comment. I would have had six or seven more, but my supervisor was sitting next to me.

Coupling that meal experience with mid-80 temps and moderate humidity in late July and it's is easy to have Providence as early odds-on favorite for best phase of this whirlwind of business trips...next up, Nashville.

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A History Of Trash

Trash, at first, was a pretty cool guy. You know, he’d come over with some beers, and you’d hang out and have a couple of laughs. Maybe Trash brought some weed with him, and you guys tried to sync up Dark Side Of The Moon with The Wizard Of Oz until you remembered you lost your VHS copy of that movie sometime in college and that you fucking hate Pink Floyd. Good times were had, nonetheless.

But then, you don’t know what changed, but Trash started to overstay his welcome. He’d just linger for hours, never taking the hint you wanted him to leave, no matter how many times you yawned obnoxiously or mentioned how early you had to get up tomorrow. Trash just didn’t get it. You were getting older. You didn’t have the time anymore to stay up until 3 a.m. to talk about the Port season of “The Wire” or how much you miss Jawbox. Eventually, you just stopped taking Trash’s phone calls and no longer replied to his group e-mails about sneaking into abandoned mental hospitals.

Last time you saw Trash, he was smoking alone outside a local dive bar, looking down at his decaying and mismatched shoes. You hoped he had been doing well. You hoped he had not been hurt by the disintegration of your friendship. And if he had, you wanted to comfort him. You wanted to tell him that even though people move on with their lives, it doesn’t mean they stop caring. You wanted him to see in your eyes a sincere appreciation for the time you shared, because all the relationships in our lives help make us who we are, and even if you weren’t the best of friends anymore, you wanted him to know that there would always be a piece of Trash in your heart.

But instead, you looked away and crossed the street. You were with your new girlfriend, and you really didn’t want to have to explain Trash to her. She’d never understand.