KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | Contact
A local bloke has executed some exceptional forward defense today as he casually blocks the requests from an old workmate to catch up before Christmas.
Tallis Gordon, 33, was catching a bus home from the city when he was sprung upon by Dave Ericcson, a colleague he used to share a desk with back when he worked in data entry.
Hitting him up via Messenger, it’s believed Dave’s proposal for a pre-Christmas beer failed to get much traction, given that Christmas Day is practically tomorrow and Tallis hasn’t had a spare minute to scratch himself in weeks.
“Mate, we have to catch up before Chrissy for a couple of brewskis!!” Dave messaged, a block of text that sat below the exact same message he’d sent out at the same time last year.
“What if we hit up trivia and a steak in the city?”
Squinting at the message through slightly tipsy eyes, Tallis decided it was best to just leave it on read for the night and maybe come up with a half-assed excuse tomorrow.
Speaking privately to Tallis, there’s a snowflake’s chance in hell that he’ll have time, or the energy, to drink beers on a weeknight with someone he used to share an office with.
“It’s like four sleeps ‘til Christmas, everyone’s social calendar is totally rammed, and Dave thinks I’ve got a spare night to reminisce about how shit our old data entry jobs were…” Tallis told The Advocate.
“I haven’t got an empty evening free until the 5th of January, and even then, I’ll need the rest of the month to dry out.”
“He’s gotta be kidding himself. As if my girlfriend’s going to let me use him as an excuse to skip out on doing the Christmas shopping next Thursday night.”
