In the afternoon, when I was doing nothing, Kid comes by, needs pictures.
- let me be guessing. You need them for yesterday or overyester.
- til tuesday
- you are a genius. Since when do you have so much time?
- know what, I passed the driver's [exam] so I need them for the licence. Can [do] by tuesday?
- okay, will be something.
And he paid in advance. Then we watched "Theatre at home" the slid to disco. That is I left him by Volta (fifth shop left from Proleter, where ex IV6.73 gathered, plus Dženk), while I went to in front of Dom. Cold outside, she's not there, I get in. Around half nine, I'm doing the third round already through the overcrowded disco, looking for her. Get stopped by Kid and Branka, he goes "gimme a cigarette". OK, we respect the scratchers, so here's one. She goes "what, you smoke?" "no no [these] are not mine". And he goes "hear, when she comes, join us for a beer".
Okay... to his ear, I remark that Branka is my ex, so to avoid confusion, then aloud "I'm off to find her". At seven meters in, some kid comes to tell me she said to wait for her by the entrance. There it's qute crowded, and I run into Grne. "Ey, I need you to act in a movie of mine" "I know. I feel [it]." "Let me explain..." "I understand.".
...this is where there's text missing, when I was writing that part, had an accident with the diary, it fell into a cake... so I tried to protect the text with transparent adhesive tape, which saved it mechanically, but the glue ate the ink, so no text.
On wednesday, 5th, likely a meeting at the club, but nobody there and a rain was starting. Met Sredljak downtown, we buzzed around, bought the lily-of-the-valey fragrance for her (spare, if she ever runs out), rain stopped, went to his place. Showed me various things in poker, though I already knew most already (but it never hurts to check the rules, I was often burned by local variants which were presented as The Rules to me). Then switched to šnaps and gangsterica.
On thursday lots of fun at school, in the toilet we rehearsed singing "Milkina kuća na kraju" (favorite song of Marko Bozon), maybe there was some booze. What do we buy the girls. And what do I buy to mine? To mom, a single by "Skadarlija" sextet, with old city stuff. I ask R. then
- now something for baba (i.e. grandmother)
- far as I know her, here's Suzy Quattro
- you're kidding
- why, she'll like it
- which baba did you mean?
- ah you meant the real baba?
- the real
- I screwed myself. Here's Josipa.
Sings "Omer beže"... sold.
Still had cash for gasoline. Met Žara so stood with him a while. Then Pop so we talked a lot and a long, and than he
- hey, look at that funny girl
And sure enough, across the street, there trots Oli Boj.
Went home, played the singles, and later in the evening went for the date. Met M. and Z. along the way, picked them up, the engine stalled, asked him to give it a little push (not quite necessary but let him show), just looking at them... like us two a year ago. Met her by Tekstil and went to disco.
Kid showed me his license, the picture is to mothers'. When I found her and told her this episode with Kid, she said she wanted to see Branka. We didn't stay with them for too long, just later asked how she seems and she said "she is really sweet". (... 82 words...) Later she told me how her cow (Đenđi) finally found a frajer. Must have been lucky on lottery.
Somehow managed to fix the crate for the next day with Beštara, he said they're moving granma soon, this is the last time. And it turned out that our entry slot was between 19:30 and 20, and we met at 19, so had half an hour to kill. When we got there, the key was not in place. We waited, he didn't appear, recheck, feel all the dusty corners, none. Phew, fuckya. Drove to her place, to change trousers, the seam had split. Then... (... 90 words...)
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