Tools
The winning $200 bidding form.
The Griswolds, Legolas the Elf, Allison, a loud and drunk Krazy-Kim, Stavvy and yours truly, rolled out to Bondi Australian restaurant for a
Charity Singles Auction. There is an old saying,
a fool and his money are soon parted. Well..... the unapologetic, dim-witted duo of Nemo and D3, learned this lesson the hard way at the auction after Nemo suggested that they put MY name down, along with a $200 bid, for 3 days/2 nights at a Mission Beach vacation rental that was being auctioned off for event. When my name was announced, as the winning bid, I stood there confused until Nemo and D3 clued me in to what had happened. I asked them, "
Why would you do that? Ok, so my name was called and I looked stunned for a moment. You had your fun. Now, you have to pay $200 for a Mission Beach vacation rental. If I want a Mission Beach vacation I'll drive over to OJ and NHF's.
You're fools but at least its for charity." Nemo was genuinely shocked ("
I just suggest to crazy Danny. No idea he would really do." "
Tough titty said the kitty but the milk still good," I replied. "
Get over there and pay your half for your foolishness." D3, already well "refreshed" in anticipation of getting auctioned off, was actually happy about it and belched, "
We can have a party!"

The emcee for the evening (at the microphone) called me out (by name) OVER and OVER again ("
Get to the cashier and pay for your winning bid!" "
Those aren't real raffle tickets!") thanks to dumb Nemo and brain-dead D3. In the bottom corner is one of the wheel-chair bound athletes that benefited from the charity.

Here's the event organizer AND a single that braved the auction-block, Romeana, who describes herself as having an
Italian attitude with an Irish temper (or "bitchy" in a nutshell
), on the auction web-site.

Romeana was the first to be auctioned off and I'll tell you the truth. I don't know how ANYONE had the nerve to get on that stage and invite the embarrassment of possible low bidding. I would hyperventilate and then have a nervous breakdown before the opening bid, certain that I would sit there with no bids and a double chin. With this in mind, I'll be giving most of the auctioned persons a free pass and will uncharacteristically hold my waspish tongue (well, except for D3 and Nemo, of course). Romeana, on the other hand, had NO such insecurities, as she sat confidently and eventually went for a wallet bursting $350 (!!!)

The buyer? Holy mother of drama!!! I'm so happy!!! That's Grosslos, Stavvy's first love! They had a tumultuous three year relationship that went belly up. Thank heavens for that or I would have never met beloved and beefy Jon! Grosslos seemed like a nice enough bloke, but we couldn't possibly be pals.

This lucky and beer-guzzling guy won a bike at the raffle! (When I bitched that I wanted to win the bike and threatened to ride it out of the front door, Mik made me feel a little better by stating, "
You're too fat for that. It would fold in half the second you sat down.") Later, he also left with a date! As he successfully purchased a date with the lady below. While I detest gossip, I could have sworn I saw them canoodling at the bar!
A Minute with Mik
The newly engaged (again) Mik Griswold returned from Italy last week (bearing gifts! great gifts!) and he made the rounds at Bondi catching up with folks he hasn't seen in ages, while his fiancee, Angela Griswold, was catching up on her beauty rest (Translation: She passed out cold after too much liquor). On the photo above, Mik caught up with Stavvy's BFF, Laura . On the photo below, he caught up with with Kristi (a lass that appreciates men every bit as much as the man-hungry Maria), who made a bee-line towards us, after she saw Legolas the Elf, and purred, "
Who is that?" If I were one for gossip, I'd tell you that later on I saw cell-phones whipped out and numbers exchanged.
This concludes a Minute with Mik
I love this photo. The two tall and comely twins were won by the guy on the left. He looks either absolutely stunned by his good fortune or horrified that this picture may find its way back to his wife.

While we were waiting for Colin, D3 and Nemo to be auctioned off, I took notice that the ladies were getting out of control. I demanded the auction number be given to me so they could not mistakenly bid in a drunken stupor. D3 yipped, “No, what fun is that if the most boring of us all has the bidder? Give it to Krazy-Kim!” Hearing this, Krazy begin to stomp her feet and bellowed, “
I want it! I want it! Why can’t I have it?” It was so loud that people began to stare like I was beating my child or something, so I gave her the bidder and fled. Messes. Later, D3 would come to regret this interference.
Allison Attacks!

Freed from the restraint of composure and propriety, Allison was a hoot. So much so that I told her, "
Who knew you were so much fun?" Shortly before she passed out (at least she waited until we left the auction, unlike Mrs. Griswold). She cut a path of destruction through the auction that culminated with the disaster of the Mik/Nemo bid. Here she snuggles up to Colin. On the right is the lass that I'm going to set up with O.J. because she looked active yet loves
Top Model, she also has a fun, frog-like voice
.
Here, I told Allison to, "
Lean in close, now sniff him." She happily obliged. I told Colin, "
You need to be grateful that this quaint, raggedy-ass, back-woods ass, hillbilly-ass auction won't allow men to bid on men. Otherwise, although baby is broke, I would have raised funds to secure our date." When he was done laughing and alternately checking himself out in the mirror, he replied, "
Well, you could have had one of the ladies bid for you!" Sadly, it was too late to sell Nemo into white slavery but I began to scheme with a drunken Allison, who had ALSO gone in on a scheme with two other girls!!

This bartender rushed over after Krazy dropped her drink. In a moment of much hilarity, Allison lifted his shirt and openly molested him while he swept up the broken glass. He was a good sport, as all the people in the vicinity burst into laughter (mine was a flat out cackle/guffaw hybrid), and allowed Allison to continue to rub his chest and stomach until she had her fill and once again went searching for Colin.
Tool Time
So, earlier that day when Nemo told me that he and D3 were going to be auctioned off as a DOUBLE-date, I spat (in a moment of complete candor), "
Who the hell is going to want that?" (at this point I was slapped on the wrist by Angela). I should clarify, while they are both very sweet, I consider them to be heavy burdens upon me and the thought of some dear girl suffering through a double-date with them, ripe with broken English and a bum liver, fills me with woe.

Things seemed off to a bleak start, as initially women seemed confused by Nemo's sylish, green chiffon jacket and silver shoes and D3's seemingly permanent, cherry-red lip-stick. They must have thought that a sweet, gay couple was on the auction block. Someone must have yelled, "
Those aren't twinks! They're tools!" Because soon the bidding kicked into high gear.

Unfortunately, the bidding was coming from a drunken Krazy, Allison and Stavvy. In an attempt to drive up the price, they bid $250 and got owned. It was beautiful. First, faced with coughing up the cash, they turned on EACH OTHER, with all assigning blame elsewhere for the winning bid. Smug and satisfied, I got off my patented, "
Well you have no one to blame but yourselves!
I told you to let me hold that damn bidder." It gets even better, it was at this point that Angela passed out and Krazy took her to my car to "help" her (and avoid stiff charity fees, if you ask me). Nemo cried, "
I can't believe this. This is worst night ever. I spend $100 on condo and now I have no date." (he was actually hoping a cute lass would snatch him and his shattered English up) The next morning, Allison provided me with one last good belly laugh when she told me, "
I was a mess last night. I never get like that. I remember we won an auction. Who did we win? Was it Nemo?" 
Now get this. The event RAN OUT OF TIME and they still had TWO bachelors left to auction, Stavvy's ex, Grosslos, and the grande finale of Colin!! Flummoxed, the event organizers were forced to turn it into a DOUBLE-DATE and I was immediately grateful I didn't sell my car.

With the bidding over $300, Grosslos took off his shirt. I thought, "
No he did NOT just take his shirt off up in here!" The bidding completely stalled at that point as Colin had to act like he hadn't been waiting his whole life to take his shirt off on stage and show off his red-band Calvin Klein underwear.
BAM! The bidding shot upwards of $350.
$349.50 of that, was for Colin.
Who knew? That an auction I called back-woods and hillbilly would provide the single gayest moment I've seen in months....and I've watched boat-loads of illegally downloaded porn!Good Day.