Bar hopping – Holiday style

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Dec
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I didn’t get up until 2pm today, but that’s good since I went to sleep around 3am. It was a long, but very fun, night. I went downtown with a group of friends (Andrew, Josh, John, his brother, Ty, Katie, Jill, the Japanese exchange student that Jill’s mom is hosting, and her friend).

We hit up 5 places that night. The Tube was first – I had a Rum and Coke, we waited for the rest of our party to arrive. Next was Shanghai – I had a Mirror Pond there, and shared a basket of fries with Katie and John. Third on the list was Kells – we met up with Josh and Ty there cuz apparently the dude that was checking ID’s at Shanghai didn’t believe that the picture in Josh’s ID was his. That’s messedup. Kells was packed and we left soon after arriving. Next was The City, I bought a Hef there, while we waited to move on. Last stop was the Greek Cusine I had a Drop Top, the dancefloor was fun.

The bartender at The Greek was an ass. I bought $6.00 in drinks and gave him a tip of $1.00 and he said that was ’some weak shit’. WTF dude. $1.00 for $6.00 worth of drinks is a 16.7% tip. So fuck you, just be glad you get a tip at all. A tip is just a tip, don’t be trying to get more cash out of me. Being an ass certainly doesn’t help. Read the rants of Stacy on this subject – I think it captures it quite well.

The night ended with all of us walking around in the rain and a random stop to a donut shop that was open in the wee hours of the morning. That was interesting.

Filed under: Friends, Portland, OR
2 Comments

2 Comments

  1. Stacy
    5:29pm on December 27th, 2005

    Greek Cuisine’s service isn’t always top notch; I think they have a heavy turn-around for employees. I always tip at least a dollar per drink when I go out, which is really amazing when you figure most of our friends don’t tip at all. Did you know they just raised minimum wage to $7.50?

  2. Thomas
    5:58pm on December 27th, 2005

    Damn that was a fast comment… only posted minutes after I posted this thing! I seem to tend to tip a buck for one or two drinks, and I tip more for three or more drinks. Yeah, I read an article in the Portland Business Journal about it a few days ago – It’s nice to know that the minimum wage has gone up. You can apparently get a poster of all of the minumum wages from the Bureau of Labor and Industries: http://www.boli.state.or.us/BOLI/WHD/docs/engminwage2006.pdf

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