 Romance/Love: March 04, 2009 Issue [#2921] |
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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”~~Drew Carey
“I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?”~~George Clooney
"This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
~~Samuel Johnson
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”~~Socrates
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”~~Ernest Hemingway
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Observation from karaoke night at the Hamburg Pub on a Friday night....
Ken and I met a younger couple from his work at the pub last Friday. They are engaged, it was her birthday and they drank Pepsi as they don't drink. They all work together so I spent the time when Ken wasn't singing and we weren't dancing, watching the people around us while they rehashed work stuff.
It was the usual crowd--the regulars, the 'let's go to the bar and find the love of our lives' crowd, the married couples, the ones that can't sing and probably shouldn't sing but were having a blast trying, the ones who could blow any American Idol winner out of the window and everyone in between.
The pub has the world's tiniest dance floor, and given the number of people that wanted to dance Friday night, the place really should consider enlarging the joint! It is interesting to watch people dance. You can learn a lot about people that way.
The couples who have been together a long time move in unison. They meld and meet, each anticipating maneuvers and turns. They meet the music and give off an aura of oneness, of total togetherness as they dip and sway. Whether simple slow dancing or two-stepping, they weave through the crowd as they enjoy the moment. They look into each other's eyes or laugh and smile, never missing a step.
At one point, the floor was so crowded during a country song, that we two-stepped off between the tables and up the aisle towards the bar, around other tables and back to the dance floor. People clapped, appreciating that the dance floor just was too crowded for a decent two step.
Couples who were new to each other, perhaps dancing for the first time were hesitant, not knowing where to put their hands, stumbling as each tried to lead or they hung there and swayed, testing the waters so to speak.
Younger people dancing, or as in a couple of cases, women, no longer as young as they tried to look and act, danced to some ancient as the hills instinctive (?) mating ritual. One could almost hear tribal drums over the off key singing.
At the bar, it is as if there are layers of sounds, noises, manners, rules, conversations, looks and body language. Loud conversations to be heard over the music travel to nearby tables. One gets snips and snatches of other peoples lives. Loud, raucous laughter, demur glances, frank observation and drooling can all be seen. It is fun to see the steps the male peacock takes to woo the impossibly young and lovely woman at the table across the way. Or to watch the overly make-uped, larger women at the next table over flirt with each other. As the night goes on and the drink have been flowing, the nuances seem more blatant, more out there, more determined.
I see blissfully happy people and sad ones. One forty (fifty) something woman, dressed like she was pushing twenty, and dancing like she thinks she's a belly dancer got to the point she almost attacked another woman. The argument led to pushing and shoving on the older woman's part. The much younger girl simply stood there, talked quietly and then fled to the ladies room as the bar manager told the older woman to leave the bar.
She was one of the sad ones, and I found myself creating the back story to her actions, filling in details and history, creating a character to fit the woman. I do that a lot at the bars. The older couples who cheer their spouse on during karaoke and beam as they clap after wards, the women who are enjoying a girl's nite out crowding the stage and sharing mikes singing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and loving every second of it, the nondescript gentleman who gets gets up on stage and belts out a song that gets everyone's attention, the elderly woman who sings 'Crazy' with a voice so clear and powerful, I could feel Patsy Cline smiling: These are the characters of a night out at the bar.
One couple, wedged back in the corner, held hands and sang along to every song. Some songs, everyone sings along with, uniting the bar in total camaraderie for three minutes. The waitresses, threading the crowd, bottles of beer and mixed drinks high over their heads, are part bouncer, part barmaid and managing to stay completely cheerful and smiling.
One woman, out on the prowl, is someone I'm acquainted with. By day, she's a high-powered advertising executive; that night she was a lynx out hunting her prey. She succeeded too, and dances a mean fast two-step!
It is all about people. Their stories. Their Friday night escape from reality. Their kicking back and having a rolicking good time.
The Ladies Room.
All mascara should be tear-proof. No one needs to look like a raccoon when they are already having a bad night.
All the peering into the mirrors will not make you look as good at 1:20 in the morning as you did when you got here. Ain't gonna happen!
There always seems to be a line. And it is true that the majority of females head for the bathroom in clumps. Given the fact that there is no room in there, it makes no sense to me!
The Pool Table.
As the night progresses, and the beer flows, the pool table becomes slanted, the cue sticks are all warped and the cue ball must no longer be round. Despite this, the guys try increasingly difficult shots that they would have little chance of making when totally sober!
Never ask a guy if he actually thought he had a chance of making a ridiculous shot.
Bars are an excellent place to get ideas for characters and character behaviors. Certainly at our little pub! We love our bar (to steal from the song) and we most certainly are a bunch of assorted characters!
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Incurable Romantic  :Fyn, your column on Valentines Day with the interaction between you and your husband is great. It shows not only the true meaning of that day (I agree with both of you - love should be shown every day, but one day being special makes it even better), but the way it can strengthen a relationship. Nice job!
Thank you.
monty31802 :Thanks for a fine Newsletter, I think you have a great idea for Valentines Day.
It was a lot of work, but worth every moment I spent! I catch him flipping through and reading a day here and there and he smiles and I smile, and life is good!
spazmom :Cute newsletter-- my hubby would agree with him. I do too, but I'm a romantic and any excuse to do more is good for me...lol
Me too!
Adriana Noir :Great newsletter, Fyn! It's so important for any writer to be able to draw from that well of emotion.
I agree! And it is fun too!
Thomas :What a sweet and special gift to give him
And it is fun to go back to any specific day and see what I wrote and remember why.
Jaye P. Marshall  :Great newsletter! Your editorial of the gifts you and your husband exchanged brought tears to my eyes. (Guess I'm just a BIT sentimental.)
Me too!--sentimental that is *grin*
PoisonAvy21 :THIS IS SO ROMANTIC!!!!
Thanking you. I was hoping he'd think so, and he did!
Ash :This is a pretty good newsletter.Keep up the good work,
Thanks. I try. :)
Vivian  :Much of my romance writing deals with that long lasting love that has endured for a long time, as my marriage which has lasts 47 years so far.
Thanks for showing that love and romance are not only for the young and new couples.
You are quite welcome! 47 years! How wonderful. Of course we are only at 3 months, but we've known each other forever.
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