What don’t I get you ask? I don’t get why everyone is so hell bent on hanging out at all the trendy “hot spots” all the time. It sucks for me because unless I am falling down drunk you will NEVER find me at anything that resembles a club or any sort of popular “lounge.” I don’t give a shit about being “seen” anywhere or keeping up on appearances. It’s not just because I am getting older either…I have always been this way. But it sucks because, except for a couple people I hang with regularly, everyone is always going places I hate. Places that play awful music, spots with way over priced drinks and a clientèle that I have nothing in common with or would choose to hang out with anyway. Why is it when a new spot opens everyone runs for it? Why is it that a place everyone once hated can now be the place to go? I really don’t care where people choose to go or what they want to do. Do whatever you enjoy I guess. I guess the point I am making is I either give in (nah) or I continue to go to my favorite juke joints and live music spots. I just wish more people were on board sometimes because the coolest people I have met have never even heard of Flo Rida or whoeverdafuck is big today and gone tomorrow. In the meantime I will continue to miss out on your birthday at *insert shitty popular nightspot* or a outing with everyone at whereverdafuck is cool tonight. Dissapointing. Steve…what’s your take?
Well, I’m not a fan of these places either, for many similar reasons but also for a few different ones. The biggest reason I don’t like these places is the amount of people they try to pack into it. I hate people, especially in large numbers, and to me standing around getting bumped into and spilled on by every asshole that walks by while sweating my balls off in the nice pants I am forced to wear because even though the air conditioners are cranking at full blast, the body heat of a million people in some tiny (albeit swanky or nice or whatever) place combined with the anxiety and fury that results when there’s so many people around just isn’t fun. I went to one of these places a little while ago for a birthday party, and there were actually people there with sweat rags on their shoulder. Disgusting. Give me a high table, a smokey, dimly lit room, a couple stools and moderately priced draft beer and I’m happy. No retarded dance floors or cover charges or wristbands, no few hundred people trying to hip-hop line dance, no trying to shout over all the farting the fat chicks are doing or the lame-ass four songs they always play. I say just kick back, enjoy the atmosphere, and drink the beer. Stop trying to impress everyone so much, you’re in a bar, not some job interview or fancy event where it would actually matter what you wear or what you smell like. I still don’t understand why everyone gets so dressed up just to whore themselves out and grind their ass in whomever’s crotch is the closest.
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