"The Infamous Guak"

Monday night I needed some chips. I had capped off a right awesome Memorial Day Weekend of leisure with some beer and 2-for-1 pizza with some quality people (all killer, no filler). I had spent all of my money save for $2 at Ruski's getting a serious buzz on. Cumberland Farms provided me a bag of artificially flavored sour cream and onion potato chips for $1.29.

I returned to Fort Awesome to find a party going on at both first-floor apartments. I stopped to talk to two guys living it up on the stoop. Out of one of the apartments stepped a young lady in her early twenties. She's a neighbor of mine, and we tend to talk a bit on the stoop when we both happen to be smoking butts. We have never introduced ourselves.

She was drunk and soooooo happy to see me. She yelled "hiiiiiii!" and somehow managed to slur even that. She went on about how she was glad I was outside and that she's not the only one who's often still in pajama bottoms around noon.

"We've never officially introduced ourselves. I'm Katie," she said extending her hand. I shook her hand and said my name was Guak. "Oh my god! You're the infamous Guak?!" Katie exclaimed.

"Wow. 'The infamous Guak?' What do you mean?" I inquired. Katie then went into explaining what "infamous" meant. I cut her off to inform her I was familiar with the word but wanting to know how I was infamous.

My neighbor never told me about my infamy. After my question she merely replied how she was excited  to meet me. And that she was going to do some grilling in the near future, and I should take part. I responded by telling her I like grilling things. Katie said of course I did because I'm a man. I went self-deprecating and said something like "I'm kind of a man, but I still enjoy grilling things."

Then she gave me a long hug. A hug I wouldn't expect from a chica I barely know. Even a drunk one. Then Katie scurried back to her apartment.

I admit it pleases me mightily that even now I'll occasionally meet someone, and I get a comment like "you're the infamous Guak." That just by word-of-mouth I have some renown, albeit a small amount to be sure. That I received that comment from a nubile young thang was even better. A little sad? I dunno, maybe a little I guess. But sometimes I gotta take it where I can get it.