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Posted: 12/25/2004 12:39:04 PM EDT
| I stopped going to the little hole in the wall bars about 6 years ago,I seemed to attract every drunk that wanted to start a fight.My Daughter and Son-in-Law are in for Christmas,Adam is getting ready to re-deploy to Iraq next month so He and I slipped off the other night for a couple drinks.We started at the lounge of a nice restaurant but the place was dead so we left and stopped by an old bar I used to frequent.The only thing thats changed in the past 6 years was the crowd,but they were the same types with different faces.As we entered,no one really seemed to notice te two new faces so we went to the empty end of the bar,ordered a couple beers,listened to the music and minded our own business.Things were going good,till I went to the rest room,it seems that no one wanted to start any shit with both of us but as soon as I left,a couple drunks came over and started messing with Adam.I was only gone,about a minute and a half and walked up behind the two harassing my Son-in -Law.I nudged one of them a little as I stepped up beside Adam and asked if there was a problem when I noticed the work uniform of the second one,I met him last weekend at my Wifes office party!Aparently,he recognized me too as the Husband of the Lady who signs his pay check every week,and the situation dissipated faster than it started.Sometimes I forget why I made certain decisions in the past,but I always seem to remember again! |
| I have only gone into bars for two reasons ever, to get drunk and to find skanks. I don't drink to get drunk anymore (hell, I barely drink at all), and I have been happily married for nearly ten years. I don't go into bars often. OF course years ago I spent lots of time in them, and yes the faces and names change, but the crowd stays the same, and in every hole in the wall bar in the world there are a couple of assholes who feel they have to fight every soldier who walks in the door (where do you think the fake SEAl beanie baby dealer from the gun show goes after quitting time?). |
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i rode harleys for many, many years and grew up in shitholes like that. i have avoided them like the plague for years. there is simply too much violence for my liking. i think the night i left a bar over by obershutze's house back in the 1980's was the night i decided i was too old to keep getting in scrapes. there was probably 25-30 guys beating the piss out of each other inside the bar and out in the parking lot on a warm summer night. i fought my way to my car...jumped in and got the hell out of dodge before the cops came to break up another one. i often wonder why so many guys get all liquored up before they find their 'courage'? after a friend was killed in a bar fight (run over by a car in the parking lot), i stopped pretending i was immortal. |
Yea,a lot of the places around here have shootings/stabbings at 2am when they close in the parking lot.In fact there are two bars side by side,and when the power drinkers from both would empty out at 2,there would almost be a riot in the combined parking lot over which bar was the best Even the fofo bars like at applebees were my wife and I hang arnt totaly safe around here.A few years ago there was a bar at the mall owned by a former NFL player,food and drink mucho expensive.Anyway the Martinsburg city police had a little get together there,they all got drunk and a large fight ensued.As I recall,female officer was upset her husband officer was flirting with the girlfriend of another of martinsburgs finest,she beat his ass and handcuffed him to the bumper of a car.After that night,there were a lot of job openings for police here
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