Birthday fun

It was my friend Saturday's birthday.  He and William, another friend of mine pooled their money together and now they were going to treat all of us and some girls from a nearby girls dormitory.      Everybody dressed up.  I was so excited since Saturday and William were taking us to eat at a seafood restaurant.  (When there's free food, everyone's interested!).  There were about 15 boys and to our surprise, 20 girls mostly William's friends.     Saturday had rented two cars for the occasion and all the girls went with william in one car, and us boys with Saturday in another car.

This is Saturday.  He used to go to the Philippine Military academy so he's very intereted in stuff like guns and war.

James was the designated driver and he drove us to this little restaurant were we all sat down at these long tables.  All the girls sat at one table and William had to sit with them (to entertain them.)  All the boys sat at another table and made small talk.  Each table ignored the other.  No attempt was made to break the ice.  I asked Saturday if anymore people were coming and he told me that Mandy, Ramon, Brian and a couple of others were coming in their own car.  As we were speaking, Mandy, Ramon and some other guys arrived with a bottle of wine.  "Happy birthday!" They cheered.

This is James, the dorm's resident war freak.  He and Saturday get along very well.

They made a lot of noise and sat at our table.  All the girls stared. Then the food began to arrive.  Saturday and William urged us to eat a lot since a lot more was coming.  As the first platter of shrimp reached our table, Mandy made a grab at it with his barehands and dumped most of the shrimp on his plate He laughed like crazy and we laughed a bit too. A second plate arrived then suddenly both Mandy and Ramon made a grab for it and got most of the shrimp. When the third plate arrived all the boys sitting near Mandy this time made a grab for it but as usual, Mandy was quicker so this time the boys grabbed all the shrimp on Mandy's plate!! All the girls stared and stared. But Mandy didn't get off scot-free.  Later when the Main course arrived,  he and the other boys were stuffed to the gills with shrimp appetizers and they could barely eat another bite!

A mestizo guy in the dorm was called the "tax collector" behind his back because he was always asking for loose change so that he could use the pay phone to call his girlfriend.

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