Thursday, November 16, 2006
People watching wallflower
Scene: Bella - a hot & posh bar in downtown Chicago
What: the bar's 2nd anniversary party
What really?: free drinks until 10pm = chaos
Push, shove, push. People behave with utmost aggression when they wrastle for free drinks and appetizers. It's ugly fun to see the middle-class urbanites greedily elbow their way to the bar. Pathetic, really.
A short, Latina (even shorter than me) came out on top in the competition and finally got us some drinks. She was super friendly - mostly because she was drunk. She kept on telling my colleague and me that it was heresy to drink rum and diet coke. In the process, she gave a guy a nice little coke & rum shower. Oops. Other than her persistent principal on mixed drinks, she revealed that she was a Mexican Jew, and that she was looking forward to watching the Borat movie. Big up, yo', she says. As she continues with her life story, I wonder what she would call her self. A Jexican? A Mew?
Tired of standing around, we finally convince the hostess that we deserve a table. And we get a super duper friendly gay waiter (think: David Spade except 1000 x's cuter - okay, that's no longer David Spade). I love it when waiters don't take grief from rude customers. A.J. just flicked his hip and said, "Uf! I thought she was going to kill me with her eyes when I bumped into her!" He was adorable.
Nothing else stood out, except for the guy doing a fist-pump and (attempting) the electric booty. It was probably all the more amusing, because he reminded me of the nerdy guy from sixteen candles, the breakfast club, or any other cheesy 80's teen movie (such as pretty in pink).
People watching is certainly amusing.
What: the bar's 2nd anniversary party
What really?: free drinks until 10pm = chaos
Push, shove, push. People behave with utmost aggression when they wrastle for free drinks and appetizers. It's ugly fun to see the middle-class urbanites greedily elbow their way to the bar. Pathetic, really.
A short, Latina (even shorter than me) came out on top in the competition and finally got us some drinks. She was super friendly - mostly because she was drunk. She kept on telling my colleague and me that it was heresy to drink rum and diet coke. In the process, she gave a guy a nice little coke & rum shower. Oops. Other than her persistent principal on mixed drinks, she revealed that she was a Mexican Jew, and that she was looking forward to watching the Borat movie. Big up, yo', she says. As she continues with her life story, I wonder what she would call her self. A Jexican? A Mew?
Tired of standing around, we finally convince the hostess that we deserve a table. And we get a super duper friendly gay waiter (think: David Spade except 1000 x's cuter - okay, that's no longer David Spade). I love it when waiters don't take grief from rude customers. A.J. just flicked his hip and said, "Uf! I thought she was going to kill me with her eyes when I bumped into her!" He was adorable.
Nothing else stood out, except for the guy doing a fist-pump and (attempting) the electric booty. It was probably all the more amusing, because he reminded me of the nerdy guy from sixteen candles, the breakfast club, or any other cheesy 80's teen movie (such as pretty in pink).
People watching is certainly amusing.
// posted by sakit @ 11:03 PM 
