{"id":157,"date":"2004-07-27T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=157"},"modified":"2004-07-27T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T11:04:00","slug":"jb-rivers-hyde-park-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/jb-rivers-hyde-park-7\/","title":{"rendered":"JB Rivers, Hyde Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Tuesday, July 27, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>    Food: * * * 1\/2<br \/>\n<br \/>    Ambience: * * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>    Babe Count: * * * * *<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Phone: +27 11 325 5055<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You know,       being a serial monogamist can be a bit of a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting here reading and playing solitaire on my palmtop since after a late lunch with Eran. He&#8217;s flying to Israel tomorrow for a holiday, and to scout out some filmmaking possibilities for the production company we&#8217;re forming together. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday he and I went to see Standard Bank in Sandton to see about opening a business account and getting starting capital of R1.5 million. We&#8217;re still in extremely preliminary stages, and we may look for a partner. But it was a fun exercise. Near the end of the conversation, I said to the three bankers, &#8220;Hey, if we open our account here, we&#8217;ll just have to invite you to set one day, to see what really goes on behind the scenes. Would you be keen on such a thing?&#8221; They almost blew their wads then and there. &#8220;Yes! Oh, yes! Please remember us when you have a shoot!&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mysite.mweb.co.za\/residents\/rb000004\/Anette.gif?resize=260%2C280\" alt=\"What a babe. And what bad timing. Here I get a second chance at wooing a serously lovely girl, but I'm now tied up in monogamy. Ah well. It least I got to feast my eyes.\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"280\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" width=\"260\" \/>Right now, I&#8217;m sitting minding my own business, and my glasses are on the table. I&#8217;m giving my eyes a rest from contact lenses, which I&#8217;ve now been wearing successfully for the last month. The left eye is feeling a bit deranged, but it&#8217;s tolerating the lens! Viva!<\/p>\n<p>So, with my specs on the table, I can&#8217;t really make out the features of the babe who&#8217;s just sat down two tables away. She&#8217;s waving at me.<\/p>\n<p>I pop the glasses on, and I recognise       her, but I can&#8217;t figure out where from.<\/p>\n<p>I walk over to her table. She&#8217;s there with an older guy, in his sixties, and she&#8217;s in her early thirties. Long blonde hair. Greenish eyes. Incredible cheek bones. Dimples. Bod. This is babe heaven for me. Where the heck do I know her from??<\/p>\n<p>She       says, &#8220;You drew me one night &#8211;&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>And before she can finish her sentence, I know where I know her from. She&#8217;s the one that got away. The delicious woman I sketched at Piatto in Cresta late June. The babe whose number I didn&#8217;t take. I say, &#8220;Piatto in Cresta. My name&#8217;s Roy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Annette,&#8221; she says, and we shake hands. I&#8217;m now only dimly aware of the dude at the table, and I&#8217;m kinda locked into her gaze. &#8220;And this is Peter,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>I shake Peter&#8217;s hand. &#8220;Pleased ta meet ya,&#8221; he says       in a Cockney accent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join us for a drink?&#8221; says Annette.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.       Okay. I get my satchel and join them.<\/p>\n<p>The joys of monogamy.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as I&#8217;m exploring a relationship with Karen, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m not going to be pursuing relationships with other women at the moment. But I&#8217;m also treading a delicate balance. I don&#8217;t KNOW that things with Karen will work. And nor do I know whether or not we&#8217;re really suited to each other. So I don&#8217;t want to close off possibilities too strongly. But I do want to be honest and upfront and clear. And I don&#8217;t want anybody getting hurt.<\/p>\n<p>So right now I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll be okay to have coffee with people. Like Annette. And some of the women I&#8217;m corresponding with from the internet dating service.<\/p>\n<p>An added complication for me now is the fact that my new sexual journeyings are on this site. And babes I speak to are immediately given the web address. So I&#8217;m kinda open book. Which might not be to everyone&#8217;s taste. But hey. I&#8217;m an individual. And I have a broad mind, now even broader, and that&#8217;s who I am. As Charlotte Kasl says in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553814966\/barefoot\">ZEN       AND THE ART OF FALLING IN LOVE<\/a>: &#8220;If you want love and friendship,       you must walk the path undisguised.&#8221;       <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Service: * * * Food: * * * 1\/2 Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * Phone: +27 11 325 5055 You know, being a serial monogamist can be a bit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/jb-rivers-hyde-park-7\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JB Rivers, Hyde Park<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}