Nocturnal Activities...
Jun. 19th, 2005 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chibi_trillianLast night at Baltimore Pride and Orpheus was...interesting. I'm flat broke due to my own poor budgeting two weeks ago, so Lady Anu was kind enough to cover me. Myself, Lady Anu, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alucardblue, and Indigo Creature went down to Pride very late becuse Lady Anu accidentally got in a much-needed nap. When we got there, there was a big crowd near the stage next to the Hippo (the bar where we were supposed to be meeting someone). We linked hands and started squeezing through.
And then Ru Paul came on stage.
I saw her for about thirty seconds before I was, quite literally, crushed. I wound up stuck in the crowd, Lady Anu in front of me trying to make progress through the crowd,alucardblue and Indigo Creature behind me pressed against a wall, and people bitching because we had the discourtesy to be handlinked in the middle of a crowd and trying to move through where our arms were. Somebody said, "They're handlinked and they won't let go," so four people started pushing on alucardblue and my arms. They nearly dislocated my shoulder, and didn't quit even when I started screaming. I had to let go, and nearly lost the other half of our group. When we finally got inside, I found out that I'd been shoved so hard that my jelly bracelets had left red welts in my wrist.
The moral of this story: Ru Paul can be dangerous to your health.
After we went and got dinner, we went to Orpheus, wherealucardblue officially negated every time I've ever joked about him being self-centered. He spent most of the evening helping a pair of dangerously drunk guys, up to and including physically moving someone twice his size and falling-down drunk to a couch there he wouldn't hurt himself, spending his own money on cold water for them, and helping to clean up vomit. Before he left, he double-checked on the one of them that was the worst and made sure that his friends were taking care of him and would get him home all right. By that point, the guy had sobered up enough to thank him. It gave us the warm fuzzies, as much as really drunk clubgoers can do so.
Fianlly, on our way home, we went through the first sobriety checkpoint that I have ever seen in the state of Maryland. I have never seen so many state police in one place in my life. Lady Anu (the driver) answered the cop honestly about what she'd had to drink that night (one drink when she'd gotten to the club two hours before), a dead soberalucardblue had a flashlight shined in his face and was declared to have "probably had a few tonight" due to his perpetually-stoned look, and we got to go on our way with that perfunctory check thanks to Lady Anu being a pretty girl with big boobs. Almost every other car was being diverted for field sobriety checks and breathalyzers, and some cars were being towed because their drivers were too drunk to drive. We had the road pretty much to ourselves on the way home.
Rather surprisingly, last night was actually a very good night.
alucardblue, and Indigo Creature went down to Pride very late becuse Lady Anu accidentally got in a much-needed nap. When we got there, there was a big crowd near the stage next to the Hippo (the bar where we were supposed to be meeting someone). We linked hands and started squeezing through.And then Ru Paul came on stage.
I saw her for about thirty seconds before I was, quite literally, crushed. I wound up stuck in the crowd, Lady Anu in front of me trying to make progress through the crowd,
alucardblue and Indigo Creature behind me pressed against a wall, and people bitching because we had the discourtesy to be handlinked in the middle of a crowd and trying to move through where our arms were. Somebody said, "They're handlinked and they won't let go," so four people started pushing on alucardblue and my arms. They nearly dislocated my shoulder, and didn't quit even when I started screaming. I had to let go, and nearly lost the other half of our group. When we finally got inside, I found out that I'd been shoved so hard that my jelly bracelets had left red welts in my wrist.The moral of this story: Ru Paul can be dangerous to your health.
After we went and got dinner, we went to Orpheus, where
alucardblue officially negated every time I've ever joked about him being self-centered. He spent most of the evening helping a pair of dangerously drunk guys, up to and including physically moving someone twice his size and falling-down drunk to a couch there he wouldn't hurt himself, spending his own money on cold water for them, and helping to clean up vomit. Before he left, he double-checked on the one of them that was the worst and made sure that his friends were taking care of him and would get him home all right. By that point, the guy had sobered up enough to thank him. It gave us the warm fuzzies, as much as really drunk clubgoers can do so.Fianlly, on our way home, we went through the first sobriety checkpoint that I have ever seen in the state of Maryland. I have never seen so many state police in one place in my life. Lady Anu (the driver) answered the cop honestly about what she'd had to drink that night (one drink when she'd gotten to the club two hours before), a dead sober
alucardblue had a flashlight shined in his face and was declared to have "probably had a few tonight" due to his perpetually-stoned look, and we got to go on our way with that perfunctory check thanks to Lady Anu being a pretty girl with big boobs. Almost every other car was being diverted for field sobriety checks and breathalyzers, and some cars were being towed because their drivers were too drunk to drive. We had the road pretty much to ourselves on the way home.Rather surprisingly, last night was actually a very good night.
