Bar Weirdos and Bar Fights

So I hit the bars in NE Minneapolis with Joy & Erin, friends from grad school and two very cool chicks (I didn't take a survey on this, but I think so!). We met up at the Spring Street Tavern first - $5 pitchers of Premium, and the best wings in town - yum!

While there, we were shooting the breeze and having a great time, when all of a sudden this random dude from the bar takes a liking to us. He looks like Nick Nolte - no, not like Nick Nolte when he looked good; like Nick Nolte in that one mug shot when he got busted for DUI...See?

So this weird guy keeps coming up to our table with lines like, "You girls are the greatest thing in here!" and, "I gotta tell you..." and then some random bullsh*t that we really didn't want or need to hear. And he dances away - yes, literally dances - to his drink at the bar, only to return all too soon to wow us with more of his brilliance. Yikes. We were really glad to get out of there and away from him.

Joy & I ended up down the street at The Vegas Lounge. I, having never been, insisted on seeing this place that is right next door to a senior-citizen high rise, and boasts a crowd with an average age of 70. Strangely, Joy & I were not among the gray-heads as we thought we'd be; in fact, there were quite a few young people there. Most were rockin' out the karaoke, which is always great.

While Joy went to the ladies room, I got to witness a bar fight. Not sure what started it, but all of a sudden one gargantuan dude is cold-cocking some other guy, and the guy goes down! And takes a bar stool with him! Security comes rushing over; the assailant beats feet for the door with his 'ho, and the dazed victim stumbles around looking...well, dazed. It was so strange - fist hitting cheekbone does not sound the same in person as it does in movies.

Overall, it was an interesting night - lots of fun, and so worth the tap-beer-hangover-headache I had all day Sunday while working at the bank. Cheers!!