Friday, November 11, 2011

They Drank THAT Much.....

We had a group of 54 last night, (98% of whom were women) in the large banquet rooms downstairs. They were a professional group of women, in a mostly male dominated industry. One of them was early and stopped at the bar for a drink…..she was telling me about their group, and how they were trying to find ways to promote women in their workplace, projects they wanted to put into motion and a bunch of other stuff, but hadn’t gotten too far yet. Sounded like they had some good ideas.

I can tell you one thing, quaffing down mass quantities of alcohol, really doesn’t promote anything. They drank like a bunch of sailors who had been out to sea for six months and were not gonna se another drop of alcohol for another six months. Yes, they drank THAT much!

For three solid hours, I barely had 30 seconds to step away from the service bar. There were three servers running drinks to them, non-stop. And I mean non-stop. We’re not that buy at the service bar on a Friday or Saturday night with a full restaurant.

Every now and then a couple of them would come upstairs to the bar and order from me, and ask if the servers had disappeared. “NO. They’re getting drinks for other people, and they haven’t stopped since you got here!” (Really, I know from three decades of experience that there is not one person down there who is gonna dry up and wither away if they don’t get another drink in the next ten seconds)

Then they had the nerve to ask the servers what was taking so long.

It would have been impossible to cut off some of the people…since someone else could order for them, and there were too many watch……so we gave them last call and told them the restaurant was closed.

I can understand why your projects aren’t getting off the ground. Why don’t you try staying even moderately sober and see what happens.

No comments:

Post a Comment