SUNDAY FUNDAY UPDATE

As I mentioned before, yesterday turned out to be one interesting day. Originally I was looking forward to taking a load off of my feet, due to the fact that I'd been feeling a bit under the weather (again); However, when I looked at the scheduled and realized that I'd scheduled myself to work the shift, I had no choice but to go in.

Going in, I was expecting some interesting things to happen. For starters, there was an Anti-Gay Marriage protest scheduled to take place down the block in front of the Governor's offices on 3rd Avenue. I knew it was going to be a lot of folks attending it, simply by the number of barricades that were set up for the event. And sure enough, a ton of people did show up for the event.







While you couldn't really hear the rally from the bar's location, you could definitely see the hoards of supporters going to the event. I was surprised at the number of Hispanic protesters in attendance at the rally. I don't really know why, it just wasn't what I'd expected I guess. We had quite a few of the protesters stopping off at the bar to use the "facilities". It was definitely intriguing and fairly obvious that the topic of Gay Marriage is a heated one, not to die down anytime soon, especially with the Governor set to sign off on the bill to legalize it.

At some point during the afternoon, one Hispanic guy came into the bar and ordered a Heineken. After about two minutes of him bitching about the price, he eventually paid for his beer with a combination of bills and coins. At that point I realized right away that this guy may be a problem, so I decided in my head that this guy was going to be "one and done". Just as I thought, the guy proceeded to go around to various individuals, trying to start up conversations and basically harassing folks. I decided enough was enough and told him that he was cut off and had to leave. He mumbled something in Spanish and as I turned to serve another customer, some of the patrons sitting at the bar shouted for me to look out. I turned around and there was the same guy- this time he'd let himself behind the bar and came walking towards me! WTF??

I immediately yelled at him to get out and walked towards him, grabbing anything I could find as a weapon, which in this case were two fruit knives. As I charged towards him, he immediately began backing out from behind the bar. I tossed the knives onto the back counter, grabbed the idiot and gave him the bum's rush out onto the sidewalk. The guy began talking smack, not realizing that a police car was sitting right in front of the bar. I looked towards the cop and pointed at the guy and he turned towards the cop, looked back at me, and then shuffled away, cursing the whole time. WTF...

On a lighter note, there was a couple who kept many of the patrons entertained. They had been at the bar for most of the afternoon, canoodling as couples tend to do. The problem in this case was that the young lady was sort of top-heavy and was wearing one of those halter-top type of dresses, the ones with no sleeves or anything to keep the boobies in place.

So as the afternoon went on, the couple kept on drinking and the young lady kept having to adjust her dress to keep the puppies at bay. At one point, it was safe to say that she was fighting a losing battle as the puppies made an appearance a few times. Bless her heart.

It seems that we have a new mascot for the bar. Her name is RUBY and she's a cute black and white French Bulldog, currently residing at the home of MR. LOW-KEY. Everyone has taken a shine to her and she loves the attention. So much so that whenever it's time for her to leave, she has to be carried out because she refuses to leave on her own.

The Birthday Girl... the day after.

Mr. Low Key and Ruby...

Overall, it was one of those days.


Nuff Said