Good Times

Well, today is labor day and Jill has to work. The poor thing. She has been working really hard, and really long hours. With no break long enough to really recuperate. So its a really good thing that we are going on a vacation soon. We did however have some time to go out this weekend. A friend and coworker of Jill's invited us to go out in uptown Saturday night. We don't often go out, and really neither of us enjoys drinking too much anymore; it's expensive and harder and harder on the body. Even still, we decided to join her out at a place called Bar Abilene. It's a pretty trendy bar with decent taps, some tales to sit at and a DJ. We arrived around 9:30 or so to find the place pretty dead. We weren't really complaining since we were able to snag great seats at the bar and met our first new friend of the evening: the very awesome (and apparently attractive) bartender Mica (yes he even has a cool name).

It turns out that he is actually from Amery, WI, so right away we know he's cool. Other than hanging out with us as much as a bartender can and giving us the scoop on most of the regulars, he cut us a sweet deal on our tab. We should have drank and ate about $100 worth of stuff between the 3 of us, but when he ran the check for us it was only $54; what a guy! We'll definitely be going back there to see him again. So as you may have guessed from earlier, we met several new people that night. Well, to be fair, I should say Jill met them, but still. One of the people we met invited us to a pool party the next day! As the night progressed the bar got a bit crowded and people were beginning to mass around the two ladies I was accompanying. I was the designated driver for the evening so I only had two beers for the evening. While I was sober, the increasing mass of people hanging around Jill and Angel started to buy them drinks. Needless to say, the ladies were a bit tipsy by the time the evening drew to a close. Just before we left a girl next to Jill dropped her drink and one of the bartenders accused Jill. So the bouncer came up, took her drink, and told her she needed to leave. Well, Jill was quite upset about being accused of smashing her drink when clearly her drink was still in front of her, but thankfully, our new friends took care of the situation for us. Mica told the bouncer it wasn't her, and the rest of the new group of friends knew some key people.

Even still, the taste for the night out was lost. So we tracked down Angel (hanging out by a group of guys buying her shots) and began to make our way out of the crowded bar. A short while after our departure, a guy in front of us stole the purse of a girl walking in front of us. It took a second to realize what had happened, but once we realized what was going on I took off after the thief. I almost had him right away as he realized I was after him, slowed down and made to give me the purse. As I got close he bolted to the right and just outside my grasp. I tore off after him running through streets and sidewalks. I chased him for about 10 blocks. I wish I could tell you that I ran him down and got the purse back, but he was about 6'3" and out ran me. It may be a good thing too, because at that point I was pretty pissed off that someone would do that, and then that no one else would help stop the guy, so I probably would not have been very gentle with him.

While I was chasing after the purse thief, Jill was managing to half-Carry her friend Angel back toward the car, a task which must have been difficult considering the difference in their sizes. Finally I returned to the girls and got them in the car and home. On the way home, a car almost hit us and I had to swerve quickly to avoid it. So all in all it was a pretty eventful night. Oh yeah, we also had to get Angel up to our apartment where she would spent the night passed out on our couch. I was a long night followed by a day of rest as we didn't really do anything noteworthy until about 5:30 at night.

So the moral of the story is that we had fun, but I need to get into a little better shape. I should have been able to catch that guy and retrieve the purse. Next time, I'll be in better shape, and better able to assist. Watch out criminals!