But I digress and return my thought process to what I was planning on talking about today. Which is the bar we were sitting in. We paid the $3 cover gladly as I am always happy to support local musicians, even if they are just another local bar blues cover band. However Once we had ordered our drinks I noticed the price difference between New York and Illinois. Namely 3 bucks a drink. So a 50% price increase for my normal drink. We headed to the downstairs bar area which was a bit quieter and less crowded than the upstairs (where the band was on a five minute break). It was quiet enough to hold a conversation in an inside voice instead of "LOUD DRUNK VOICE". At least it was when we got down there, After we were there for a couple minutes the Bartender put on an Allmans brothers DVD and proceeded to turn up the volume well beyond the normal background/jukebox level and into the realms of live band using volume to compensate for lack of talent. Fortunately it was the Allman Brothers band so the talent was there, but there is only so much Allman brothers I can take before either falling asleep or looking for a fight.
Then we were joined by an 40 ish blond Keanu Reeves circa Point Break lookalike. he was barely coherent but jovial and introduced us to his cousin and proceeded to ignore anything said to him, while carrying on both sides of his own internal monologue. It soon became apparent that he A: was Drunk, B: Was looking for a place to crash, and C: Was not at all subtle or bright. However he was entertaining and his cousin bought Serwah a drink just to be sociable. All in all a good evening.
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