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I'll be in Philadelphia PA on business Thursday of this week. Does anyone know of a downtown location for live acoustic music for Thursday evening?
Change that. Google is my friend. I'm not sure it's a reasonable distance from my hotel, but it's looking like Tin Angel has some live acoustic music starting at 8PM. I'm making tentative plans to be there given meetings don't run long and tickets/seating are available and the cabs are reasonably priced.
If you are there and see me (I'm white, a kind of big fellow, about 6'3" tall, bald with a short brown fringe, have a salt and pepper goatee, and wear glasses) drop by my table or barstool and say hi. If you tell me you're from Chordie, I'll buy you a round. I actually go by "Zurf" as a nickname, so I'll answer to that as easy as my Christian name. On the offer of buying rounds, I reserve the right to limit the offer based on how many people drop by. I don't think my wife will be too happy with me coming back from business travel with another $300 bar tab.
- Zurf
ANOTHER $300 bar tab?
You're a baaaaad boy!
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Seems like it, but the story isn't near as good as the punchline.
- Zurf
Hey zurf,thats alot of money,did you prime the whole bar,you must have had a real good time.
When you ask your administrative assistant to make reservations for taking a team out for happy hour to demonstrate appreciation after accomplishing some very challenging work, give some guidance on the location instead of saying "anywhere is fine." It turns out that Chicago has some very expensive bars.
Fortunately, I was working 'on loan' to a different team than my own, so I submitted it on an expense report to someone else's budget.
However, that reminds me of a story from when I was in a sales and marketing fraternity in college. We had arranged for a senior vice president for a large insurance company to speak at our meeting and then we arranged a happy hour afterwards. So we go to the happy hour, one very successful and wealthy business executive with forty broke college students. We get to the location and he announced that he was covering the first round. So our 'first round' was pitchers and appetizers all around rather than just a drink. When the bill came for that round, most of us were careful to be ready to bolt the premises. Instead of being upset he said, "Is that all? Hey! I'll pick up the last round too." I can only imagine him submitting what must have been a $1500 expense report and explaining that he took an entire fraternity out for drinks.
- Zurf
I was traveling with a disco band on the road. The band leader's wife, Lynn, was our girl singer - pretty, but with no common sense.
A lounge customer where we played told her he wanted to take the whole seven piece band out for pizza and beers after our gig.
As we walked out the door, Lynn announced loudly to all, "Guess what! I got this turkey to spring for us all pizza and beers." She failed to notice the gentleman in question walking right behind her.
To his credit he showed up and paid our tab but left alone and quickly.
Hey tubatooter was she a blond?
Hey tubatooter was she a blond?
No sir, she was a redhead at the time but such a jerk.
Well I got slammed with work, so am probably going to have to hang out in my hotel room rather than make it to the venue.
I lived in Philly for a year or so. If you do get a chance to break free,go down on Oregon Avenue. Bars and music all over. You do have to be a bit selective as there are some rough places, but most places are pretty decent.
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