Ben Gleib’s Diary

September 7, 2004 – 2:15 am
Getting felt up by Ashlee Simpson

Saturday night I was at a little bar on Sunset. It was a at a birthday party for my friend Daags and I was pretty drunk. I pre-partied at my place and my friend Jason and I (he drove) went to the party. I was sitting on top of a booth, talking to my friend Brett, when I looked down to my left and noticed Ashlee Simpson sitting next to me. I understand she is a pop-star and probably around 17 years old, but I’m excited. That “Pieces of me” song gets stuck in my head sometimes, and she looks incredible in that video, and I watch too much MTV. But for some reason, I’m 26, and I’m excited. But I’m also drunk. So, I forget about it, and drunkenly keep talking to Brett. Well, about two minutes later, it happened. She reached her arm back and accidentally hit me in the upper thigh, not too far from Mr. Friendly. This got my attention. Maybe she was really forward and fleeting with her advances. I wanted to lean down to her and ask her softly to sing the chorus of “Pieces of Me” in my ear. (She does say the word “Pieces” better than any of the pop-stars.) But instead I just mumbled “Mo Problem” or something like that. She clearly felt bad for hitting me, which was nice of her, so she then kind of caressed my leg, while saying “I’m sorry.” It was a lot lower this time, and in a “I’m sorry you fell down Grandpa” kind of way, but I appreciated it just the same.

Soon after, she got up. And she actually turned to my friend Brett and told him to call her, or asked him to meet up at another bar later, or something. Remember I’m very drunk at this point. But I know that she DID NOT then turn to me and say, “I found rubbing your leg to be wonderful.”
That I would have remembered.

My friend dropped me off at the post-party at Daags house, but I guess I was early cause no one was there yet. But the door was open, so I went in, played the drums a little with one stick, then stumbled out of the house to the corner gas station where you gotta point like an idiot at the items you want from the mini-mart, and then exchange food and money under the glass food/money pass lever thing, like I’m in jail. Or like I’m going to visit Hannibal Lecter. Well, I proceed to buy and eat three sandwiches in a row. Turkey, then Egg, then Tuna, and I called Scotty to come pick me up. I actually text messaged him. I know cause the tiny letters were blurry and the texting was difficult. It’s a rare occasion, but you gotta get that drunk sometimes. Just for the stories.
And my story ends there.

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