Last night I went to the casino for a friends birthday, we played blackjack and some slots, it was a 6.5/10 on the fun scale type of night. I got up from the blackjack table to go to the bar to get myself a drink. I sat down at the bar and ordered my favorite drink: a long island iced tea. There was this man with a baseball cap and a goatee sitting next to me with a drink himself, "You getting drunk?" He asked. It was a very forward question that had me off kilter all of the sudden. "Yeah I guess so, buzzed at least." I replied and then, like Ron Burgundy in the bear pit, I immediately regreted my decision.
"You know what bar gags are?" He then asked and I enabled him again reluctantly. He then put his drink on the bar table and placed his baseball cap over it, "What you do is bet someone five bucks that you can drink the booze through the hat, you want to see me do it?" At this point I seemed roped in and agreed to the demonstration.
He then bent down and put his mouth on the edge of the bar table right below where the hat and glass were and starting fake drinking. It wasn't a pleasant sight, it really looked like he was making out with the bar edge, "What is he doing?" The bartender asked me, "I don't really know." I replied. The man made out for about 15 seconds and then got up took the hat off the glass and in the wide open downed the glass in a few gulps. "See?" he replied.
It wans't funny and I could see that this was some sort of odd attempt at humor. Maybe he just wanted to play in the sandbox with me. I thanked him for the demonstration and told him I had to go meet my friend, "Where are you going? You owe me five bucks!" He said as I left. I then couldn't help but snort in laughter, "What you did is show me a bar gag that could be used as a bet, we didn't actually bet." At that I left him with a chuckle. I have NEVER had good experiences at bars and this one just adds to the pile.
-Sab