Let's get drunk and argue morality!!
Original plan was to have a New Year's party here.
What we ended up doing was moving stuff most of the week (not my stuff and mostly not by me thank god) and driving around after 11pm trying to find someplace to get a drink and watch the ball drop.
One place required tickets bought in advance but all of them had ridiculous cover charges except for the electro lounge. Dude seriously...$50 to get in to the bar at the base of the Marriott?? Especially when it's probably about $7-10 apiece for a beer? No thank you. Couldn't decide tho' whether that whole business is about discouraging people from wanting to come in or price gouging or both. I couldn't see very many people in the places we went to ...but I guess you don't need that many customers when you charge $50-150 for entry on top of the high price of alcohol.
I can accept business supply and demand...what business wouldn't want to give entry to the person who's willing to pay more for it? What was sad though was the Marriott's treatment of the SouthWest Airlines employes who was staying there for the evening. Most likely a stewardess that just flew in from the sound of it. Working New Year's eve and expected to pay $50+ just to get a drink at the bar. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about since I've never worked in a hotel, but does it seem like a good idea to be an @ss to someone who is a major consumer of services you provide? I don't think so...but that's just me.
Anyway. We all had drinks and played pool at the electro lounge. I had flat-ironed my hair and wore a dressy top and short skirt (*gasp) and my new sexy boots, so for the second New Year's in a row I actually looked pretty d@mn cute. Go me!
Then we all came back to my place and had a few more drinks and I tried not to get involved in a v. heated, and drunken argument about the moral points of female "circumcision" vs the vienna boys choir. woooo...
Fun times
What we ended up doing was moving stuff most of the week (not my stuff and mostly not by me thank god) and driving around after 11pm trying to find someplace to get a drink and watch the ball drop.
One place required tickets bought in advance but all of them had ridiculous cover charges except for the electro lounge. Dude seriously...$50 to get in to the bar at the base of the Marriott?? Especially when it's probably about $7-10 apiece for a beer? No thank you. Couldn't decide tho' whether that whole business is about discouraging people from wanting to come in or price gouging or both. I couldn't see very many people in the places we went to ...but I guess you don't need that many customers when you charge $50-150 for entry on top of the high price of alcohol.
I can accept business supply and demand...what business wouldn't want to give entry to the person who's willing to pay more for it? What was sad though was the Marriott's treatment of the SouthWest Airlines employes who was staying there for the evening. Most likely a stewardess that just flew in from the sound of it. Working New Year's eve and expected to pay $50+ just to get a drink at the bar. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about since I've never worked in a hotel, but does it seem like a good idea to be an @ss to someone who is a major consumer of services you provide? I don't think so...but that's just me.
Anyway. We all had drinks and played pool at the electro lounge. I had flat-ironed my hair and wore a dressy top and short skirt (*gasp) and my new sexy boots, so for the second New Year's in a row I actually looked pretty d@mn cute. Go me!
Then we all came back to my place and had a few more drinks and I tried not to get involved in a v. heated, and drunken argument about the moral points of female "circumcision" vs the vienna boys choir. woooo...
Fun times