Monkeys in the Coop
I'm sitting waiting to board the plane in the airport and so in my effort to write more this year I thought I'd force out some crap just for the sake of upholding my promise to myself. I've been staying with Holden in Vancouver the last two days in his little apartment. We went to the UBC "climbing gym" AKA "The Coop". He tells me to wait outside and walks in and hands his card to the lady at the desk. Five minutes later he's back out again and I meet him in the washroom. He slips me his gym card and I walked in the with confidence holding his gym card. She didn't bat an eye at the fact that there were two very different looking Holdens entering the gym within ten minutes of one-another. I felt stupid at my racing heart but I played it cool. We laughed later when Holden admitted he was nervous too. We would've looked like such punters getting caught sneaking me into the "climbing gym" for free. I use the quotations for a reason, ...