With the holiday weekend quickly approaching and quite a few of our regulars on vacation this week, we postponed Pub Trivia for the week, which was just as well as we hosted a Fantasy Football Draft Party for a group of guys. With live drafts, you need the noise levels to be relatively low so that the participants can hear each other's draft selections. And with a regular trivia night, holding a live draft would have been impossible.
While that was going on, things were slow going at first. There were representatives of HEINEKEN LIGHT in to promote their product so they made the rounds, offering up samples and giving away swag such as t-shirts, key chains, beer coozies and such. As the night went on, things began to pick up to the point where we actually had a decent crowd. At least better than I thought we would have for a holiday week.
At one point during the night, BLONDE CHATTERBOX arrived; she was meeting up with her former roommate to catch up on things. Both ladies looked really nice and tanned (summer treated them well). It was also brought to my attention that I have to come up with new blog names for the increasing number of new folks that have become members of the Third and Long family. Great, another thing to add to my growing to-do list.
There was this small group of NYU dental students who came in from some function and within a few minutes, they were ordering shots of Patron and boozing it up pretty good. One person would order a round of shots; then someone else would order up another round. Each time they would pile their drinks on one person's tab.
When it came time to settle the bill, the young lady who opened the tab started bitching about her bill, wondering where all of the shots came from. The bartenders explained to her what took place and she started bitching and complaining. Her friend offered to pay for the shots and the girl still bitched and practically accused the bartender of padding the bill. The bartender took offense to that accusation and let her know his feelings on it (which impressed me, by the way). I was about to make my way over to intervene but it looked like he was handling the situation fine on his own. The girls eventually paid their tab and while they didn't leave much of a tip (surprise, surprise), at least they more or less accepted the fact that the bill was correct.
There were other small instances that made you want to say "Really??", but you get the gist of how the night went. It was one of those nights.
At least the Fantasy Football Draft crew were pretty cool and BLONDE CHATTERBOX kept us entertained by her antics. Bless her heart. It was one of those nights.
Headed to the U.S. Open today and then back at the bar for college football and "THIRSTY THURSDAYS".
Before I go, I want to wish THE IRON MAN, Matt Long a very happy birthday! You deserve it big guy!
Nuff Said
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