Hey everyone, I got back a couple days ago but I had to work a lot so I haven't had a chance to post much.
It was an expensive trip, but a fun one. We got to our hotel around 6pm friday and started drinking. We had about six each then walked down to Church St (strip of bars, basically) and began bar-hopping. We looked for darts but for some odd reason, they didn't have electronic dart boards. All they had were these shitty boards with metal-tip darts and a decrepit chalkboard nearby to hand write your score. So after checking like 4 places, we finally asked a bartender who was like "no, we don't have those. these are better anyway." I'm like, "Really? Manually record your score or have a machine do it?"
So we decided against darts and just explored different pubs and bars. I noticed, strangely, that the bars were packed to nearly capacity by 9pm whereas here there is no one around til at least 11, if not 12. Also, everyone was always sitting down and drinking whereas here people stand up and drink.
I had never been thrown out of a bar before this trip and we got tossed out of two the first night. They were strict as hell in some places. I could probably walk in a bar at home and punch some guy in the head and not get thrown out but we got thrown out of an irish pub because the bartender complained to the bouncer that i was falling asleep, which i wasn't. But oh well, we didn't much care as it was 1am and we were well beyond trashed and there were so many other bars to check out.
We proceeded across the street to the "Red Square," the only bar that we absolutely hated after we got thrown out there, too. It was a real jock bar where there were way too many bouncers, all appearing jacked on steroids with gorilla arms and wearing t-shirts that probably belonged to their 8 year old brothers. One of these dumb fucks approached Chad and said, "Hey, you gotta move away from that door." So Chad said, "Alright." But I guess we didn't move fast enough because he came back thirty seconds later and said, "Hey! I told you to move!" So Chad said, "Alright!" And he was like, "I don't like your attitude, you're both out of here!"
Not only were we kicked out, they proceeded to throw us out physically. They pinned our arms behind our backs and physically tossed us out.
Fucking assholes.
Anyway, my memory of that is very vague as I was probably only about half-conscious and the next bar we stopped at completely escapes my recollection. Chad told me the following day that we went to another bar where we saw two chicks sitting down alone at a table. I told him we should go over and we did. We sat down and began a conversation. Minutes later, two guys approached us and said, "You're in our seats." Chad said he was about to get up and move when I yelled to them, "They're not your seats anymore!" Chad said he was shocked but decided if I felt that way, he was gonna stay there too. So they didn't much like that and kept pestering us. Chad asked if they were the girls boyfriends and they said, "No, but we bought them drinks." Then Chad asked one girl if she wanted them to sit and she said, "Not really." But finally, I suppose they wouldn't leave us alone and we finally conceded and returned to the hotel. I wish I could remember that.
The second night was less eventful as I knew what to expect - keep your eyes very wide at the bar and don't go near a door. I had also noticed that no one appeared drunk the previous night so I paid close attention and realized that these people drinking beers at nine pm had the same drinks in front of them at ten pm and sometimes even eleven pm. We were the only drunk people out the whole fucking weekend, but we had a blast. We were in line at a bar called Nectars at the end of the second night and talking to a kid behind us who knew our hometown. He was like, "Fuck man, I know where you guys live. I party there all the time. Fuck paying rent! I live in my car!"
So I'm just laughing and then he says, "Yeah, I got an AA meeting in the morning." And I'm like, "What? Your going to a bar and you go to AA? Isn't that counter-productive?" And he's like, "It is what it is!"
Lol damn hippie. We also went and saw "Gran Torino" before leaving the next day. It was fantastic and surprisingly hysterical. I recommend it.
No girls knocked me out!!!!
It was an expensive trip, but a fun one. We got to our hotel around 6pm friday and started drinking. We had about six each then walked down to Church St (strip of bars, basically) and began bar-hopping. We looked for darts but for some odd reason, they didn't have electronic dart boards. All they had were these shitty boards with metal-tip darts and a decrepit chalkboard nearby to hand write your score. So after checking like 4 places, we finally asked a bartender who was like "no, we don't have those. these are better anyway." I'm like, "Really? Manually record your score or have a machine do it?"
So we decided against darts and just explored different pubs and bars. I noticed, strangely, that the bars were packed to nearly capacity by 9pm whereas here there is no one around til at least 11, if not 12. Also, everyone was always sitting down and drinking whereas here people stand up and drink.
I had never been thrown out of a bar before this trip and we got tossed out of two the first night. They were strict as hell in some places. I could probably walk in a bar at home and punch some guy in the head and not get thrown out but we got thrown out of an irish pub because the bartender complained to the bouncer that i was falling asleep, which i wasn't. But oh well, we didn't much care as it was 1am and we were well beyond trashed and there were so many other bars to check out.
We proceeded across the street to the "Red Square," the only bar that we absolutely hated after we got thrown out there, too. It was a real jock bar where there were way too many bouncers, all appearing jacked on steroids with gorilla arms and wearing t-shirts that probably belonged to their 8 year old brothers. One of these dumb fucks approached Chad and said, "Hey, you gotta move away from that door." So Chad said, "Alright." But I guess we didn't move fast enough because he came back thirty seconds later and said, "Hey! I told you to move!" So Chad said, "Alright!" And he was like, "I don't like your attitude, you're both out of here!"
Not only were we kicked out, they proceeded to throw us out physically. They pinned our arms behind our backs and physically tossed us out.
Fucking assholes.
Anyway, my memory of that is very vague as I was probably only about half-conscious and the next bar we stopped at completely escapes my recollection. Chad told me the following day that we went to another bar where we saw two chicks sitting down alone at a table. I told him we should go over and we did. We sat down and began a conversation. Minutes later, two guys approached us and said, "You're in our seats." Chad said he was about to get up and move when I yelled to them, "They're not your seats anymore!" Chad said he was shocked but decided if I felt that way, he was gonna stay there too. So they didn't much like that and kept pestering us. Chad asked if they were the girls boyfriends and they said, "No, but we bought them drinks." Then Chad asked one girl if she wanted them to sit and she said, "Not really." But finally, I suppose they wouldn't leave us alone and we finally conceded and returned to the hotel. I wish I could remember that.
The second night was less eventful as I knew what to expect - keep your eyes very wide at the bar and don't go near a door. I had also noticed that no one appeared drunk the previous night so I paid close attention and realized that these people drinking beers at nine pm had the same drinks in front of them at ten pm and sometimes even eleven pm. We were the only drunk people out the whole fucking weekend, but we had a blast. We were in line at a bar called Nectars at the end of the second night and talking to a kid behind us who knew our hometown. He was like, "Fuck man, I know where you guys live. I party there all the time. Fuck paying rent! I live in my car!"
So I'm just laughing and then he says, "Yeah, I got an AA meeting in the morning." And I'm like, "What? Your going to a bar and you go to AA? Isn't that counter-productive?" And he's like, "It is what it is!"
Lol damn hippie. We also went and saw "Gran Torino" before leaving the next day. It was fantastic and surprisingly hysterical. I recommend it.
No girls knocked me out!!!!
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