Things Go Better with Coke

The ongoing "high" society drugs-and-sex scandale in Manila as exposed by THAT blog reminds me of an incident - oh gosh - over 20 years ago or so. I was home from Paris for the summer and on a date with a well-known Man About Town. Intellectual sophisticate, smooth talker, connoisseur and collector of all things luxurious, from sports cars, aircraft, fine vintage wines, private islands and women...

Anyway, on this particular night, after picking me up in his Lotus (or was it a Lamborghini?) he said he needed to pass by his house because he was waiting for a delivery. So there we were sipping champagne in his terrace when the messenger arrived with a puffed up brown envelope. The Man About Town swaggered back into the terrace clasping the envelope.

"Do you coke?" he asked me.

"No, but I bake," I replied with staggering naivete. Hey, the crickets were out in full force and the leaves on the trees were shaking wildly in the pre-monsoon wind. "Coke" sounded pretty much like "cook" to my ears.

He gave me a quizzical look. What the hell is this girl on, he was probably wondering. In those days my culinary skills were rather limited but I could make the yummiest cakes and pies. I belatedly realized that Man About Town wasn't quite referring to my prowess in the kitchen; he wanted to know if I could snort Colombia's finest up my nose... I think he was disappointed to discover that the past two years in Paris may have transformed me into a Sabrina-wannabe, but not into a Studio 54-esque habituée...

Needless to say, I never made his collection... Phew! Besides, he'd said I wasn't beautiful but I had sex appeal. Then a few years later I ended up marrying someone who said I was beautiful but had no sex appeal. Go figure.

Luckily there are quite a few men who'd vehemently disagree with them both. Like... ah well... I'm not about to do a Brian Gorell...

Comments

[manuelbuencamino]

"Do you coke?" he asked me.

"No, but I bake," I replied with staggering naivete.

And he probably thought you had a new way of free-basing the powder.

[bambinawrites]

Hahahaha! If you only knew who the dealer was for that transaction!

[manuelbuencamino]

I hope you are not referring to someone we both know and love. hehe

[Mrs.T]

Hahaha...
"Do you coke?
No, but I bake..."

Sounded like something that was fished out of an Erap can of jokes :) Funny!

[chris]

hahaha... thats funny. sorry, just started reading your blog. thanks for adding some sunshine to an otherwise dreary wednesday morning in makati

[bambinawrites]

Thanks so much for visiting the blog, Chris!