West Side Story Social

Our beloved TP and I are doing West Side Story in N. Tonawanda (in the Buffalo area). I’ll reserve comment on this blog about that, instead moving right along to one of the ways he and I are making the best of it! What better way than to have our own mini-TLIC social?

There’s this great little diner across the street from the theater called Nestor’s. It cheesy and dirty and gross and it’s awesome. And they serve ice cream. So last Friday we decided to go get us some, then catch a little porn after. So we scarf down some dogs with everything, then move hurriedly to the ice cream.



Aren’t we cute?

While we’re adding calories to our already sugary diets (remember, there are muddy buddies in the pit!), we talk about what porn store to go to. And I’m saying, “It’s N. Tonawanda for god’s sake! There’s gotta be a porn store here!” And neither of us wants to go very far, because NT is in the middle of Nowheresville, NY. So I says, “Let’s ask someone!” And Alan says “NO WAY!” So we get a phone book. But where the hell do you find “porn store” in the phone book???

We try “adult”, “porn”, “novelty”, “news”, and who remembers what else. We find a listing under "news" that looks suspiciously promising! Right there on Main St. in N. Tonawanda. In our haste, I don’t even finish my ice cream!

So we hop in the car and go looking. And we drive and drive. And we can’t find it! So we decide to forget the whole thing, do better research, and continue this social on another day. Alan says he has this little magazine…which he brings in the next day! And it has many listings for the whole area. And sure enough the store we were looking for is listed in there. Hmmm…After some thinking, I realize that we had been driving on Main St. in Tonawanda, which is the adjacent city literally over the bridge from the theater, and that Main St. in N. Tonawanda is a different street, around the block on THIS side of the bridge. The street is, in fact, on the back side of the theater. Right where I’d been parking my car every damn day! So after the show I get in my car, and sure enough it’s like half a mile up the dang road, so close to Nestor’s you could SPIT there!

So that’s where we’re going tomorrow!