Gas Pump...........never again

Cast:
Speilbergo
Mr. Smith
Mr. Ross
Mr. Pannich
Lauren

The night would start at speilbergos house with some tasty quiznos. Ross, jon and i would enjoy our sandwiches before we got too drunk and felt too sick to eat them. Ross brought over a bunch of those little mini bottles of booze that he stole from the liquor store he works at. I drank whatever i thought was interesting, a bottle of soho, some ameretto, some sort of cirtus vodka. All the mixes i came up with tasted pretty good, by the time i went through it i was done 4 -5 of those little bottles. Pannich would arrive and bring with him alcoholic snakes and ladders. Nothing really much to the game, just snakes and ladders on a glass board with shot glasses as your marker. When you hit a snake you take a shot of whatever. We would play a couple rounds while waiting for ryan who was taking forever. Eventually he came and he brought some vanilla vodka as well. After a while we all gave up on snakes an ladders and drank the old fashioned way. There were talks about hitting the gas pump, i guess ryan and ross and pannich were there the night before for a bit and wanted to see what it was like tonight. Jon and i were adamantly against going but we were out voted. Before we even leave the house we are all smashed. The cabbie would pick us up at like 9:45.

Time: 10ish
Location : gas pump

Most people know the gas pump as one of those places that old, fat people go and hang out. I hope i never turn out like that. Dispite this reputation some of us thought that there maybe some decent cougers there, a phrase in itself an oxymoron. The place was pretty dead and the crowd was pretty shitty. The only decent looking chicks was a bartender and a waitress. After a bottle of mgd we would hit jasper 10 minutes after getting there

Time: 10:20ish
Location: Suede

From the gas pump we would head to suede. Ryan wanted to see if a certain bartender was working. She wasn't but we stayed for a drink anyways. I had some sort of fruity martini, didn't really think it was going to get me more drunk but sure tasted good. Ross and Berg would run into a waitress that they went to school with. She was one of those hot girls that you went to school with most of your life but then started hanging out with a different crowd in high school kind of girls. She was really nice though and would buy/give ross and jon a bottle strong bow and spend a brief time catching up with them.

Time: ??
Location: Something with "Rouge" in the title

Walking east with the intention of going to druid we come across an interesting place that looked like it hadn't been open long. We stumble inside and see 3-4 couples dancing some spanish dancing with a bunch of people watching. Pretty cool to watch, made me wish i actually had some moves. I asked the bartender for something to drink with some hypnotic in it. He made me an awesome tasting martni with hypnotic, malibu, and some sort of juice in it. Really good. We didn't really stay long, on the way out ross would recognize some girl that was in business with us, ross would initiate a coversation, one of those "aren't you in my faculty" sort of deals. Ross and everyone else would leave and i would continue the conversasion for a bit longer, then she introduced me to her boyfriend and i thought that it would be a good time to leave and catch up with the rest of them.

Time:??
Location: Druid

The 5 of us stood outside the druid. There as a pretty long line outside and we didn't really want to wait. Ross and pannich would head across the street to level 2 i think it was called. Ryan and i would try the back door. Ryan used the "i'm a firefighter line" and it got us in no problem, even though ryan didn't have his firefighter ID on him. We got some drinks and walked around for a bit. Pannich and ross would eventually find their way in, but i'm not sure what happened to jon at this point. Later on he would find us with Lauren, i guess he went to meet her somewhere. The rest of the night was pretty much a blur. At one point ryan and i were jsut standing by a table and some girl grabs ryan's ass. He would sit down and chat it up for a bit. Later on he would pickup/get picked up (not really sure what the case was) by an older looking, little bit bigger blonde girl. I glanced at her hand and saw she and a ring on. I didn't really question it since some girls just wear a ring on they left hand even though they really aren't married. I brought it to the attention to ryan and i guess he didn't notice until i told him. I left ryan to his own devices and went for a round of the bar. I see some girl sitting at a table with her friends and she gives me this little wave. She says she knows me and i have no idea who she is. Keep in mind i'm completely gone by now. After a couple minutes of talking with her it stuck me that she was my brothers friend. I felt like such an idiot having blanked just moments before. Turns out she was with a brogley, the youngest brogley to be more specific, many of you will know who i'm talking about.

Pannich and ross would wander outside. Ryan was clear that we would be leaving with out him so i let him be and went outside. Outside i saw the girl ryan was withs friends. I told them i noticed the ring and asked them about it. I asked if she was married and they said, " she is kinda married, almost divorsed" they didn't really clear things up but then again it wasn't really any of my concern, just as long as her "almost ex husband" didn't take issue with ryan.

I noticed ross and jay had dissappeared and i was just standing there with berg. Moments later i see ross sprinting towards me with a gatorade in his had. I would later find out from pannich that ross first went running around somewhere and had to be chased down by jay. Once caught he took off again to the shoppers drug mart and once again had to be hunted down by jay. The 4 of us hopped into a cab and made our way home. The entire ride ross was pretty much passed out clutching the gatorade in his right hand. 2 minutes from home he gets up groggily and asks the cabbie to pull over. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so this will be the end of the post.

Lakeview pub

Friday the 9th

On multiple occasions in the past pat would suggest we hang out at lakeview pub only half jokingly. Tonight i would indeed walk the block and a half to lakeview pub from my house .

Cast:
Pat
Jessie
Katie
Adriano
Pannich
Ryan
Denny
Ross
Brenna
Lindsey
Francine
Angela
Keith
Dave Filice
Jon Durant

The night began in my basement. I would receive an afternoon call from ryan suggesting that we should get crazy tonight. I told him that we should get started at my house and go it from there. Ryan brings an assortment of alcohol left over from previous outings, a half bottle of captain morgan, two shox, a bottle of strongbow, and a bottle of sleemans i think. I take a look in my bar and the only thing i discover worth drinking is a third of a bottle of grey goose. Being grey goose i thought i wouldn't want to waste the quality in a drink like a screwdriver so i bust out the cocktail shaker and decide on a martini type drink. The only mix i had was some grape juice, so into the shaker it went with some ice and a whole lot of vodka. The mix although strong did not taste bad. Ryan would not agree, he would whine to me that for some reason the drink "feels like it is fucking with my head." Denny arrives and starts to pound back his usual jack daniels. Soon after we are off to lakeview pub

Location: Lakeview pub
Time: 9:30 ish

We walk inside and it doesn't seem to have changed since much since i had been there last, when it was still known as dougs place. I believe that it was for some u-14 soccer party thing. Pat, Fran, jessie, katie and pam were already there. Adriano , ross, lindsey brenna and jessie would join us very soon after. Ryan and i agreed we would split a jug of big rock, i ended up drinking the majority of it though. By mere coincidence we find out that katies friend Angela would be there as well for one of her friends birthday. I wonder who has a birthday there anyways. We don't stay long and i catch a ride with adriano and ross down to whyte ave. The others would soon follow, but Katies passengers - smith and denny took some time getting down there, from what i hear there was some disscussion between angela and ryan that was upsetting to her. Nothing i can really elaborate on, nothing really interesting either.

Location: Savoy
Time: 11ish

The bluk of the group arrive together and we decide that Savoy would probably be the best place to hang out for the night. We manage to find a table near the back that would seat us all. Savoy is one of the few places in the city that serve hoegarrden in draft form in its natural massive glass, so i don't turn down the opportunity and get one for myself and ross. It didn't seem like tonight was the kind of night that people were going to get crazy, i think there was too many of us to do that. The time spent in savoy was spent doing what most people who go to savoy do. Lounge. Throughout the night adriano had been in contact with dave and justin. They decided to make the drive out to whyte from jox to meet us. I probably haven't seen either in a couple months so it was good to catch up. We would all leave and Dave and John Durant would stick around savoy some more. It was an early night but at least jessie would stop by wendys on the way home.

Not really an eventful night but not all of them can be.

Saturday the 10th

I'm going to combine these posts since they are short and not really intersting, but good for those "remember that night we did that? no, not really was that the weekend we did this?"kind of discussions.

The next day the main event would probably be game 3 of the stanley cup finals. Already down 2-0 in the series the oilers would need to win this one to have any chance of winning the cup. After some afternoon discussion it was decided that pat jessie and i would get some grub at tony romas. We get there in time for the beginning of the game. We end up leaving at the 1st intermission, Pat was supposed to pick up Francine somewhere in st.albert so we dropped him off. Jessie and i would go to his place to catch the rest of the game.

While we are jessies we get a call from pat asking us if we want to hang out at brennas for like a fire or something tonight. As there wasn't much else to do we agree. Pat would meet us at the liquor store. Inside they had a small black and white tv picking up cbc over the air. It was a lot better then what 630 ched was offering. Pat and Francine would go to brennas directly, jessie would stop by my house so i could pick up a hoodie we decide that since we are there we would watch the rest of the game , about 8 minutes, in my basement. Thankfully the oilers were able to pull through but the series was really just getting started at 2-1.

With the game over jessie and i head over to brennas. On the way there i pretty much ruled out the fire since it was raining and such. I was under the impression that we were going over there and we were gonna sit around and drink and get a little crazy. There would be no crazyness, just some pool, a repeat of some world cup games, and a rousing game of battle ship i had with jessie. I got a call from pannich and i guess some of them were at suede, it seems we are there pretty often now, but it was tool late to meet them plus i didn't feel like hanging out there tonight anyways. I had made a modest attempt at getting drunk but after i finished my slush mixed with hypnotic and felt no effect i gave up, it didn't help that brenna, francine and shanna weren't really in the mood to have anything to drink. It would be an early night but i knew and always know there will always be next weekend.