My very unevenful Saturday night included picking up a friend I haven't seen in 10 years in Lake Worth and going bar hopping.......just like 'good ole times' right?! That's what we thought it would be. Last time we went out like this was when we were 21......a LONG time ago. Oh the fun we had. Surely we could have that for just ONE NIGHT again?
First, I am not a city driver, y'all scare me to death! I have never drove further than Denton so I didn't know a thing about where anything was or even where I was. I picked my friend up at about 5pm. I already had a nagging headache but ended up with a major headache. We got lost on every street, spent most of the night making U-turns, running red lights (because we weren't watching the lights, we were trying to find street signs), got pulled over for my tag light being out -but luckily only got a warning and then ended up at some place called "hole in the wall", the name says it all but after the night we just had we were glad it was only a few blocks from her house and the night was almost over.
First at about 6pm we went to a place that was supposed to be a 'nice bar'...it was a bar & grill, not even a dance floor and a television in every corner. It was a place like Chilis, which was fine for just sitting and talking to each other for a while but not what we wanted so we left after a couple beers and went to find some place else to 'get our drink on' lol. We got lost about 3 times on the way to the next place (supposably 'just up the street') but finally found 2 clubs side by side, went into the first one and it was full of wall size televisions, standing room only, couldn't even get to the bar and NO DANCE FLOOR. We just looked around this place and left.
We walked next door to a place called The Flying Saucer, it was standing room only and the band was so loud you couldn't talk to anyone because they couldn't hear you anyway and still NO DANCE FLOOR! What's the point of a live band w/o a dance floor?! Anyhow, we left there after 1/2 beer and decided to go to the last place, a bar just a few blocks from her house. We were both mentally exhausted and it was midnight by now. We spent 6 hours of our 8 hrs together, driving around totally lost, looking for someplace fun w/o any luck.
We probably drove back and forth on every street in and near Addison trying to find some place worth staying at. All we wanted was a place we could get lost in, some place with SEATING, where we weren't the oldest women in the place, some place with a dance floor and a bar you could actually get to....we never found one! Every place was a bar&grill or a crap hole full of TV's, teen hootchie mommas and the 50+ yr old men trying to get one. I had a ton of cash, thinking we were gonna PARTY and needed alot of money but ended up spending all of $16 on the whole evening for both of us!
The entire night was a bust. I took my friend home and got home myself at 3am ....head blaring in pain from the stress of the evening. We've made plans to go out again, to Fort Worth this time. We figure, why not? It couldn't be any worse than our first ladies night out!
I have a really good sense of humor, albeit sarcastic most of the time. One of my favorite things to do is to listen in on the radio and hope some driver is bored out of his (or rarely her) mind and starts singing! My husband always turns it off but I think it's funny...I suppose if I had to hear it all day/night I wouldn't want to listen to it either. Usually these drivers aren't going to make it all the way to the end on American Idol but they can still try out .... appearantly.
My favorite 'trucker lingo' came not from a real transmission but from a television show, perhaps you've heard of it? "Home Improvement"? Well, Tim (The Tool Man Taylor) was driving a truck accompanied by his wife and trying to be all "manly" in his big rig he said he needed to get fuel and food so he got on the radio and asked, "Where I can find a pickle park and motion lotion?
I giggle everytime I think of that one.
For those of you who don't have a clue what truckers are saying on the radio (and all to often-out of the truck too) I found a flat out, alphabetically ordered site that's worth at least a glance (it's good for a laugh too)
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme3/2000transam/
There's one little pop up when you enter but that's it.
