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Monday, July 12, 2004

What fun things you see- In public Bathrooms
Friday night, Greg and I had dinner with our friends, Mary and Andrew. A new Mexican restaurant just opened up near us and it was supposed to be like a restaurant that Greg and Andrew would frequent when they were in college. It was the kind of place that you could order a big beer with a hand signal. Unlucky for us, this branch not only did not know the hand signals, they also did not have draft beer. So, we were beer snobs and drank our Tecate from cans and Budlight from bottles. The food was good, so we really were not too disappointed.

After dinner we decided it would be fun to go to a neighborhood dive, The Wooden Nickel. TWN qualifies as a dive because they had an unknown band (more on them below), bad service and old bar smell when you walked in. This is my kind of place, though. You can walk in, order a pitcher, sit at a table and drink the night away which is exactly what we did.

The band was interesting to put it mildly. They had a female lead singer who opened with an Offspring song, and she did a good job with it. This band played everything from Fuel to Heart. The most outstanding thing about this band was one of the members. He appeared to think that he performed best on top of the bar, which is where he spent his time when he was singing. When it was his turn to play, he was on the speaker platform. He hopped and skipped and looked as though he has probably done that before. Greg and I were talking about yesterday and what was weird to us was not so much that he was on the bar, but that no one seemed to think it was strange or unusual. I just have not seen a lot of performers take it to the bar, I guess. At the time all four bartenders were MIA, so I guess it really did not matter if he was on the floor or the bar.

One thing I did decide Friday evening was folks who hang out in these dives and write clever messages on the bathroom walls, think they are offering new wisdom to the world. One author felt compelled to let the world know that if you are looking for a good time to contact Sam Something-or-other. This comment prompted another to add,"If you were looking for a good time, there were people you could pay for that. Unless you are one of them." Classy..... Then there was this little bit of wisdom, "Live like it is your last day, one day you will right." That is so profound! This should go down in the books as one of the most brilliant quotes. Drunk people got it, don't they? Well, of course one day will be my last, silly.

I think I will begin collecting quotes that I find in public bathrooms. This is just good stuff.

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