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Last night after work, icebluenothing and saheeb138 took me out to dinner at Beth's. If you're not familiar with it, it's the cafe version of a dive bar.
Small, smoky, with customer drawn art covering all the walls. The food's somewhat expensive, but very good, and the wait staff has more attitude than should be able to fit in a place that small. (Oh, and our server looked an awful lot like my dear friend kaitmoon, so it was nice to have a reminder of her all night.)
One thing that made me laugh about the evening was that, of course, the three of us left immediately after work to drive down to Greenlake to get to Beth's. So of course we're still in our work uniforms. The three of us walk into Beth's in our dark shoes, khakis, and dark blue shirts, icebluenothing still wearing his nametag for chrissakes. We looked like we were trying to be the lamest... gang... EVAR!!
Another thing that amused me was when I noticed while we were leaving that it seemed as if you could judge how long we'd been with the company by length of coat. I was wearing my leather jacket, which ends at my waist, Six had his mid-thigh length black overcoat on, and Dan was wearing his HOT full-length black leather trench. I pointed this out and they both laughed, Dan asking, "What would Scott's look like?" (Scott's the store manager.) I envisioned and shared the idea that his jacket would be so long that the end of it would have to be carried by peons, like the queen's train.
The thing I found most amusing about the whole thing, though, was that the servers and most of the people in our section started talking about Seattle's new ban on smoking in public places. Beth's will be affected by it, of course. For about 5 minutes, people kept calling out things that piss them off about this law, every agreeing that it sucked. Then the cook called out from behind the counter, "Who voted? Raise your hand if you voted on this?" And suddenly, the room was silent, and I'm not sure but it seems to me that most people in the smoking section avoided his eyes.
And suddenly, the conversation was over, except for someone muttering "Voting never makes a difference anyway."
I was amused. I would think that those who voted for this obnoxious, heavyhanded fucking law would probably disagree.
*shrug*