Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Paolo had agreed to take us out somewhere on the upper West side tonight, he said if we waited for him to finish work and have some beers and stuff he would show us some cool, cheap bars. He knocked off at 22.00 so we had some beers waiting for him. I had done a massive poo so felt a whole lot better than before and I had eaten some food, that massive burrito, so was feeling pretty much normal. Of course I had a couple of 24oz cans, its become a sort of ritual before we go out here. I had no idea where we were going or what it was going to be like but I was in the mood for something quite lively. I had felt like shit all day and now I was slightly better I thought I might as well have a big night. We sat around watching TV, drinking, chatting and generally socialising with the other people at the hostel. Paolo finally finished and he got ready, we sat around and had some more beers and headed out on our way. We got the subway to 86th St the walked to around 76th or something around there. The street was full of bars, we walked past a couple then went in one that looked pretty full and lively. We weren't in there for very long, we had a few beers and if you tipped the bar man a dollar he gave you a shot of whatever you wanted so for some reason I kept on getting shots of Jameson's. Keep in mind that I have now had about five 24oz Coors cans and now a pint and a shot. We stayed in this bar for about three drinks then headed out to another bar, it seemed to die out and get really quiet really quick. The next bar we went in had quite a large selection of beer, nothing like that of the pub in Philly but still quite a lot for a standard NYC bar. We had all had pints each, then realised the bar had beer pong tables and served pitchers. We started a game of beer pong with our pints. The teams were the guys from Leeds versus Fabian and myself. If you are unfamiliar with the rules its quite simple; basically you have a long table, ten plastic cups filled with beer, and either one or two ping pong balls, the cups are placed in the ten pin bowling formation (a triangle). The aim of the game is to throw the ping pong ball into your opponents cups and make them drink all their beer. They do the same to you. It gets relatively harder the more cups they drink and the more pissed you all get. The other guys watched us, the game was meant to be quick but for some reason it seemed we were on the table for about three hours or so. The other guys got bored and left around 1.30am and we carried on playing for ages. Fabian and myself won every game, it was like the guys from Leeds weren't even trying but they clearly were. As the games went on we got louder and louder and became very rowdy. It all went horribly wrong in our last game, I was downing a beer and I could feel my gag reflexes not wanting me to finish. I felt as though I needed to be sick but couldn't be bothered to and so instead I downed the rest of my beer and straight away it all came back up. I vomited all over the floor next to our beer pong table. I tried to resolve the situation by finding a mop and bucket but I had no luck so I was forced to ask the bar staff. I felt so much better now, I had needed that for a while. When the guy came over with the mop I thought he was going to give it to me to clean my mess but instead he threw us all out and barred us, we got barred, unbelievable. This is the second time I have been thrown out and barred in the states, there must be something wrong with that.
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