Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 30-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
[continued from last week]
He was at the gym today on the elliptical running thingy wearing large headphones. He waved. I waved and got on with my work out. He had long enough to figure out how to behave appropriately, but he decided not to. I was in the middle of 200 crunches when, as I always do, I sat up and went into a yoga twist on the floor before doing the next 100 crunches.
I saw him in the mirror, coming up behind me. I closed my eyes to indicate that I was actually doing something. I was busy. Unavailable. I mean, I’m not even facing the guy and he starts talking to me.
“Oh, hello, Jean, I just wanted to say that it’s fine that you didn’t want to go out with me, but you could have at least replied to my email.”
I stay in my yoga pose on the floor. He’s standing above me, and basically it doesn’t sound like it was fine that I didn’t want to go out with him and now I’m getting a lecture on what I should have done to make him feel better.
[to be continued]
“Not With You” from Mecca Normal (Smarten Up!, 1986; re-released by K, 1995) (download):
