Gee, and they looked like such a nice family.......

We had a wedding at the restaurant last Saturday. The ceremony took place in the room that is next to the lounge, and the reception was in a larger room, downstairs. So, I got to see everyone who was there, since they had to walk by the bar to get to the ceremony room. One guy was carrying in an electric keyboard…..after he got that set up, he came to the bar for a drink. I asked him if he was then keyboard player, he said, “No, I’m the father of the keyboard player.” “Oh, then I guess that makes you the roadie.” He laughed and agreed. The actual keyboard player looked to be about 13, and was the granddaughter of the bride. There were quite a few kids in that age group.


The ceremony went smoothly, and then they were off to the reception.

They had a four hour bar time for this reception, 5:30 to 9:30. As 9:30 was approaching, the servers were becoming a little disgruntled. It seems this group took it upon themselves to being in their own bottle, AND plastic cups. You can’t do that here, it’s illegal. So I told the servers to confiscate the bottle and throw it out. Obviously they planned this in advance, as they thought to bring the plastic cups.

Usually the bar time gets stretched out a little bit…..but once I heard about the bottle, and the fact that they were so bold as to leave it out in the open, kind of like “Ha ha, we pulled one over on you,” we decided bar time was over. (Oh, and way to set a good example for the kids)

Speaking of the kids, one of them (who was old enough to know better) picked up a lit candle, that was in the restroom and thought it would be funny to drop it in the waste basket, which if you had any common sense, you would know it would start a fire, since it was filled with paper towel. And it did. The servers quickly put it out.

A few of them tried coming up to the bar to get more drinks, “Nope, we’re closed.”

Just goes to show you, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. They looked like such a nice family. Who knew they were going to blatantly break the law and start a fire.