"[Bar Story] In which I get an unexpected reaction..." Topic

Just a brief little tale here, but I thought it was kinda funny…

Thanksgiving weekend was fairly busy – Wednesday night, lotsa people were out drinking because they had Thursday off, and Thursday and Friday nights were pretty busy, too.

By Saturday, things had slowed down a bit (and last night, Sunday, was reeeeally dead), but we still had enough business that I had to clear a few tables.

So I've got two handfulls of empty glasses and I walk up to the bar. Crowded at the place I walk up to (chosen because it's right above our sink) is a group of young gay men, one of whom knows me from years ago when I had him arrested for trying to use a fake ID to get into the bar I worked at, then trying to sneak in through a side door later that night. He's over 21 now, but I remember him from the incident, and he remembers me, too.

I reach past him (not even touching him!!) to set the glasses down on the bar, when he turns to face me and half sighs, half coughs at me in a catty, slightly lispy voice "Ahhh – would you mind not pushing past me like that?"

"OH. MY. GOD!!" I say, pinching his cheek. "You are just ADOREABLE!"

Then I ruffle his hair and walk away, going back to work.

I'm not really sure what sort of reaction I was expecting from him… but he spent the rest of the night trying to hit on me. It was unexpected.

-Alex in Alaska

Alex, you are such a tease.
Ya big lug.

Dang, the list of ones that I need to finish writing up just keeps getting longer and longer:

"Bitten by a Hippie"

"Daddy needed to say "NO!" more often…"

"In which an old acquaintance threatens to slit my throat"

"Stuck holding the fat chick again…"

"Kicked in the teeth by a crazy old lady"

"Sometimes, EVERYBODY is in the wrong"

I need to write more often…

-Alex

I'm with Woody Allen. I can't be Gay as I don't want to be rejected by both teams.

Dude !!!! Write them all and soon!!!!! You and Murphy have to write a book together !!!!!

Ok, hands up all those who don't have a "Stuck holding the fat chick again" story somewhere in their past.

I would expect most of the posters on this thread to have at least one. TMP link

"Ok, hands up all those who don't have a "Stuck holding the fat chick again" story somewhere in their past."

is that on par with "stuck holding the bald guy again" or "stuck with the guy who has a really small penis"

Woody Allen- "Being Bi-sexual doubles your chances for a date on Saturday nite" Wow, things must be pretty laid back in Alaska if gay peeps are partying at what I imagine is a straight bar, or is it?:^)

Alex – yes, you should.

Mrs. P. – very likely.

Mrs P

Well known guy fact

If a women so much as notices you she fancies you, if she smiles she definitely fancies you, no matter if you are Quasimodo's ugly brother with all the personality of Dick Cheney on a bad night

And if she looks at you and starts laughing so hard she cries?

Love, true love.

things must be pretty laid back in Alaska if gay peeps are partying at what I imagine is a straight bar, or is it?:^)

It's a pretty laid-back bar. There's a university here in town, and a small but healthy gay community centered mostly around there. Despite our state's (deserved!) reputation for being mostly conservative/Republican, we've also got a very strong "I'll leave you alone if you leave me alone" attitude towards minding our own business.

I also don't tolerate anyone being hassled in bars that I work at. There's much better reasons to dislike someone than their sexual preferences.

is that on par with "stuck holding the bald guy again" or "stuck with the guy who has a really small penis"

My story has more to do with me being stuck with women who are too drunk to stand up and too large for me to easily hold them myself – and I'm a bigger-and-stronger-than-average guy. I had a string of those for a few months, and for whatever reason I always ended up being the guy having to prop them up till their taxi (or the police!) arrived.

Maybe I need a better title.

-Alex

And being a bald guy myself, my experience has been that the ladies don't always mind holding a bald guy.

And if she looks at you and starts laughing so hard she cries?

YES! She likes my sense of humor!

You already told the "bitten by a hippie" story, or did it happen again?

I don't think I told the story, I just mentioned that it'd happened. The actual story was a bit more interesting than my rant, I think. I'll have to go look up the thread.