Excerpt from my first trip ever to Seattle:<\/p>\n
Arrived at 8pm. Showered, got dressed and asked the taxi driver to take me to wherever is cool on a Friday night. He drops me off in this area where there are a bunch of bars\/clubs all within blocks of each other. Apparently, if you buy a $12 cover, it gets you into 12 clubs. So I go to one of them but it\u2019s still early so I spend some time chatting with the bouncer about the city, telling him that I\u2019m thinking about moving here. He tells me that the best thing about seattle is how nice and diverse the people are. I need to eat so he directs me to a pub around the corner that is supposed to have awesome food. I go to that pub (McCoy\u2019s) and it\u2019s a quaint little place that commemorates firemen. The only space in the bar is at the counter so I sit next to an old man who stares at me. Finally, he declares that he wants to buy me a drink and won\u2019t take no for an answer. So I\u2019m ordering my food and he\u2019s talking to me about what he does, etc. He\u2019s really nice and a little bit crazy, like someone\u2019s eccentric uncle, even going to the lengths of taking out his dentures to show them to me. I\u2019m listening to him talk about his life and he\u2019s decided that he shall call me Rosebud and then later, he decides that my name will be Sunshine. And I\u2019m apparently the nicest person he\u2019s ever met. At some point, some guy pressed up against the bar between us to order a drink and the old man tapped him on the shoulder and said, \u201cYou need to say excuse me to the Lady.\u201d The guy was confused and I said, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not a problem.\u201d But the old man tells the guy he\u2019s got to apologize for invading my personal space or he\u2019ll break his legs. So things are a little tense and the guy moves away and the old man finally gets up and goes home. He wasn\u2019t a bad guy, just lonely, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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