As I sit in a sports bar in a Dallas airport, I am reflecting that if I were to start a sports bar--which would not be my first pick for a themed bar, as I find sports extremely boring--I would not make the waitresses dress like referees. There is something off putting about the idea of a referee. They make people stop, and slow down, and skip the rest of the game. They are foreboding. Is this the right image that one wishes to give ones waitresses? This is a sports bar; what is wrong with a cheerleader or two?
Plus, if I look to the side and kind of squint, they don’t look like referees at all but vaguely like women dressed in prison outfits--although, come to think of it, that would be my first pick for a themed bar.
Update!: Jesus God, I was just carded. What is wrong with you people? I am staring down the barrel of my forties; do you not see Death perched on my shoulder, not unlike the Hitchhiking Ghosts at the end of the popular Disneyland attraction The Haunted Mansion? How am I now expected to drink this mojito with dignity?
1. I love the Haunted Mansion.
2. For some reason, I read your blog title as Grease Aplenty.
3. Is it EVER possible to drink a mojito with dignity?
It’s the way you blush when you squint sideways at the waitresses, I’m guessing.
Prison theme bar, yay! I will go as long as there are shots in test tubes.
I was carded this weekend for a pomegranate margarita & I am two months older than YOU!
I think I’ve been carded once in the last year… .
Anyway, maybe those waitpersons could wear athletic uniforms of Texas teams or something? Astros, Cowboys, Rockets, Mavericks, Longhorns, etc. (I’m trying to help you out so next time you’re there, you can drop some knowledge.)
Must have been the new ‘young’ outfit you had on
That must have been the “We card under 100” bar.
There is a sign at my local Whole Foods that says “If you look younger than 30, you will be carded” - I never get carded and it makes me sad.
Honestly, I think they do that as a cheap attempt to get better tips. I just say, “Bless your heart, darlin’, you must be flirting with me.” Or, if it’s particularly obvious and obnoxious, I might go with, “Um, is there some reason you’re sucking up to me?”
There already is a jail-themed bar, in Boston:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/alibi-bar-and-lounge-boston
The concept is kind of awesome.
What if the waitresses were dressed as prison matrons? Would that turn you on?