** Bar #32 - APPALLING **

Last night when I was at bar #32 (this decently new south-of-downtown bar with cheap drinks, and a mixed clienteles of businessmen, yuppies, and random Mexicans), I was seriously appalled...

When I got there my one professor friend was already having drinks with another friend of hers who I've met once, they were sitting next to 3 older men at the end of the bar who had been drinking heavily. Something was happening with one, and my professor friend started to escort him to the door, and he put his hand out to hold a stool, and the next thing you know he's passed out cold on the floor, laying on his back, and he can't get up.

So, the bar people called an ambulance, and woke up him up, and when he was saying he couldn't remember anything, the bar people were telling him to say that he had called in take-out and had just come to pick it up when he passed out.

911 came out and took him out on a stretcher, then, and only then did a barmaid come up to get my drink order, because she hadn't done that yet what with all the chaos.

When I ordered the $4.50 draft beer special, this Irish guy who had been drinking with the guy who passed out was like, "Sure, they'll charge you $4.50 if you want!" (because, as it turns out, their Thurs. special is all draft beers are $3.50).

He also said, "It's $2.50 if you fall down, and $1.50 if you can get back up!"

He also said he was a regular, and that the guy who drank heavily was a regular too, only he had been in the bar much earlier than usual and he had been drinking before that, too.