(Black) bar with no sign out front.

Just south of campus along a main road there’s this one (black) bar with no sign out front, though a lot of neon beer signs in the window.

So, I biked over from campus one evening (hitting a few other bars up first) and ended up at that bar, locking my bike up out front.

Inside was a barebones bare-walled dive bar with a DJ booth and a dance floor, and this (younger) (fatter) (really dark) (black) kid playing disco and house music from the DJ booth.

There were a few (black) men at the bar, and a (younger) (black) woman tending bar, and this (older) (light-skinned) (big frizzy bleached haired) (black) woman at the end of the bar, intently doing something on her iPhone and drinking out of a goblet.

After I got my drink, the DJ put on a disco medley, and people really started grooving, and me and the bartender were singing along on the choruses and being all like “Ring my bell!”.

Then, “Disco Inferno” came on, and we started being like “burn baby burn” with the chorus, but when the 2^nd verse came on, the (older) (light-skinned) (big frizzy bleached haired) (black) woman at the end of the bar started loudly singing the lyrics of the verse, never even taking her eyes off her iPhone, and she did that for the next verse too, never even looking up or anyhow interacting with anyone else.

Later, when the music got more house, these (black) guys down the bar got in a debate over why when (black) people finally get a nice job, they always have to go buy a house and a Cadillac.

“Why a Cadillac?”, the guy was like.

“Because it’s a nice ride,” the (older) (light-skinned) (big frizzy bleached haired) (black) woman butted in, shouting down at them from the other end of the bar.   “Big car, nice ride.”  Then, she threw up her hands in the air.  “I’m just saying!”

Then, she was like, “Same thing with men, the bigger the man, the nicer the ride.  Big man, nice ride.”  Then, she threw up her hands in the air again.  “I’m just saying!”

I later found out that she was the owner, and named the bar after a tropical bird because the bird’s plumage is her favorite color.