Lesson learned, aka take it like a man, Shorty
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:KAPPA:Redwood City, CA Icrontian
I learned a thing today.
So I'm in New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 09. Nvidia threw a three stop bar crawl bash. Bandrik, Wahay, Genevieve, and our friend Camille went out. I owed Camille a drink, so we walked to the bar at the first stop.
They had sailor Jerry, this pleased me.
I decided to buy a jerry and coke for Camille, genevieve, and myself. Genevieve got hers as a triple. It's all good, it's SIGGRAPH, it's 'nawlens.
My tab comes back. $54.58. Fifty Four dollars. For three rum and cokes.
I don't care if that triple was a quad, you could never convince me that rum and cokes would cost that much.
Now, I don't make a ton of money, I save every bit I can. A tab like this though, I'm done spending money for the rest of this trip, it shut me down.
Fortunately for me, Camille is the take-no-crap type. She couldn't figure out why it was so dang expensive, and so we debated it with the bartender. We were fortuitous, for we talked the bill down to $30.
The bartender made a mistake, it seems she thought Camille's drink and my own were doubles. But still, that's irrelevant. For the price of the three rum and cokes I bought, I could have bought two bottles of Sailor jerry from a store.
I was glad to have gotten them drinks, but frick, sailor jerry spiced rum does not equate to any numbers that large.
So I learned a lesson. New Orleans is hella expensive, and you need to check drink prices before you throw down an order if your in unfamiliar territory.
Screw you, 'nawlens.
I can't be the only one who's amassed a huge tab from whatever number of reasons. Anyone have any stories from their own experiences of bar fail? I'd love to hear them, so my wallet doesn't feel quite as bad. misery, your name is wallet, and Misery loves company.
So I'm in New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 09. Nvidia threw a three stop bar crawl bash. Bandrik, Wahay, Genevieve, and our friend Camille went out. I owed Camille a drink, so we walked to the bar at the first stop.
They had sailor Jerry, this pleased me.
I decided to buy a jerry and coke for Camille, genevieve, and myself. Genevieve got hers as a triple. It's all good, it's SIGGRAPH, it's 'nawlens.
My tab comes back. $54.58. Fifty Four dollars. For three rum and cokes.
I don't care if that triple was a quad, you could never convince me that rum and cokes would cost that much.
Now, I don't make a ton of money, I save every bit I can. A tab like this though, I'm done spending money for the rest of this trip, it shut me down.
Fortunately for me, Camille is the take-no-crap type. She couldn't figure out why it was so dang expensive, and so we debated it with the bartender. We were fortuitous, for we talked the bill down to $30.
The bartender made a mistake, it seems she thought Camille's drink and my own were doubles. But still, that's irrelevant. For the price of the three rum and cokes I bought, I could have bought two bottles of Sailor jerry from a store.
I was glad to have gotten them drinks, but frick, sailor jerry spiced rum does not equate to any numbers that large.
So I learned a lesson. New Orleans is hella expensive, and you need to check drink prices before you throw down an order if your in unfamiliar territory.
Screw you, 'nawlens.
I can't be the only one who's amassed a huge tab from whatever number of reasons. Anyone have any stories from their own experiences of bar fail? I'd love to hear them, so my wallet doesn't feel quite as bad. misery, your name is wallet, and Misery loves company.
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Just ask Pseudonym when he offered to pick up the bar tab for TheSMJ's 21st birthday...
Also, I'm telling ya, Chart Room. Cheapest place to drink in New Orleans. Couple blocks off of Bourbon and quite enough to have a good conversation.
I know cities are expensive. I've been barhopping at conventions plenty enough to know this already. Thought I just never expected such a simple drink to be racketed so high. With the exception of my $9 gin and tonic in LA, I've never seen prices this bad in cities. I found LA, San Diego, Chicago to not be nearly as bad. Maybe I just know the good places.
I come to SIGGRAPH with the full intention of paying high for drinks. I get to hang out with some of my closest friends, many of whom I see but one week a year. We're generally in a new city, we always hit the street, try the local brews, whatever, so I plan on it.
I just never plan on $54.
Piggeh - I have not tried a hand grenade, though I see them all over. I did get Sazerac, which I can't get back home, and I was planning on trying absinthe, but after last night's roll out, I don't see that happening.
and lol at Novac. classy move... so he thought.
Oh, and I forgot all about chart room :/ If we find outselves back on Bourbon, I'll see to it that we get there. We need a place like that right about now.
My father and I crossed the country and stopped in 4 or 5 states, I can't remember. Everytime we stopped, he'd ask for a J&B 'neat'. None of the places we stopped at knew what the hell 'neat' meant.
Took me a couple days to find the cheaper places. The one dollar margarita shots at the skeezy Bill's were effective and affordable.
Deal!
Also, ordering neat is something I've only recently started doing, because I was n00b before :/
But now I know, and knowing is half the battle. The other half? 25% red lazers and 25% blue lazers.
There are cheap places here in New Orleans, we just keep partying at the expensive places because that's where the company venues are.
If you hear anything, lemmie know. Tonights our last night here, that might be worth checking out! Text me, my number is on my facebook
For food my favorite place is Cresent City Bar where they make their own beer ...cheaper but don't complain or they'll tell you like it is.
Also, my absolute most favorite restaurants are in Fat City. Drago's Seafood Restaraunt has the original grilled oysters on the half shell for appetizer. Most other restaurants only copy them and aren't quite as good.
After that cross the street to Crazy Johnny's Seafood and Steakhouse. I prefer the BBQ Jumbo Gulf Shrimp (absolute largest shrimp on earth!) with dippin' french garlic bread (probably Joe Gambino's)and the Crawfish Pirogue is also good if you want to switch off. These are some of the few places outside of my home area where seafood is well prepared.
I always hate buying liquor at expensive bars, the markup is ridiculous. It does however, make me want to own a place like that.
Expensive booze? You guys don't know the meaning. Try buying good stuff in Tokyo or Delhi. $25-30 a drink is typical. That is why I buy JW Gold or Green in duty free, $50 for a 1 liter bottle.