AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FOOD,THIS SATURDAY I WENT TO SEE THE DAN RISTROM BAND AT TRYG'S BECAUSE THE 2 OR 3 TIMES I SAW THEM THERE IT WAS AN AWESOME EXPERINCE AND A FUN TIME FOR ALL, SO WHEN i HEARD THEY WERE PLAYING THIS SATURDAY I DID WHAT I ALWAYS DO WHEN THEY PLAY I SENT OUT AN E MAIL BLAST TO ALL MY FRIENDS INVITING THEM TO THIS AWESOME SET, MOST TIMES WE GET ABOUT A DOZEN OR SO PEOPLE TO SHOW UP..WELL ON THIS SATURDAY 2 OF MY FEMALE FRIENDS SHOWED UP AND WERE SEATED AT THE BAR,THERE WAS A EMPTHY SEAT NEXT TO THEM THAT I SAT IN TO GREET THEM, WE'LL THE GUY SITTING IN THE OTHER SEAT SAID THAT THIS SEAT WAS TAKEN AND I SHOULD GET UP, I KINDLY EXPLAINED TO THIS GENTLEMAN THAT I WAS MERELY SAYING HELLO TO MY FRIENDS AND ONCE HIS BUDDY RETURNS I WOULD GLADLY GET UP AS I WAS ALREADY SEATED BEHIND THEM WITH OTHER FRIENDS WHO SHOWED UP ON MY INVITE, WELL THIS GUY WANTED NO PART OF ME BEING ANY WHERE NEAR HIM SO IN A VERY AGGRESSIVE TONE HE DEMANDED THAT I GET UP AND GO AROUND THE BAR AWAY FROM HIM AS IF HE COULDN''T STAND THE THOUGH OF ME EVEN BEING NEAR HIM.AT THIS TIME THE BARTENDERED HEARD WHAT WAS GOING ON AND APPERAED TO SIDE WITH THIS WHITE GENTLEMAN WHICH GAVE ME THE IMPRESSION THAT BLACK FOLKS WERE NOT REALLY WELCOMED IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT. I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THE BARTENDER THAT THIS MAN WAS BEING VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO ME AT WHICH TIME THE WHITE GENTLEMAN ONCE AGAIN VERY LOUDLY SAID GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME AND GET OUT OF OUR SEAT, WELL AT THIS TIME I FELT AS IF I WAS IN SELMA ALA IN THE 60s BY THIS TIME THE 2 WHITES FRIENDS I WAS SEATED WITH INTERVENEED ON MY BEHALF AND TOLD THE BARTENDRES THAT THIS GUYS BEHAVIORS WAS TOTALLY OUT OF LINE BUT WERE ONLY MET WITH BLANK UN APOLOGETIC STARES FROM THE BAR KEEPS.FINALLY HIS FRIEND RETURNED AND I GAVE HIM HIS SEAT AS PROMISED AND RETURN TO MY OTHER FREINDS.I MUST SAY THAT THE WHITE GENTLEMAN DID APOLOGIZE TO ME ABOUT LOSING HIS COOL , OF COURSE I ACCEPTED HIS APOLOGY.
ALL 16 OF MY FRIENDS WHO SHOWED UP LOVED THE BAND AND ATMOSPHERE
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