I've just had a really stupid bad night...

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So I went out tonight with my friend Kat, but the bouncer wouldn't let me into the club because I didn't have my ID and I didn't look 30. So I left Kat there and drove away, but then I realized I still had my halloween costume in the car. As I was quite the actor in my younger years, I'm fairly skilled with fake hair, and had made a long beard, moustache, and wig of dreadlocks. I'd tested it several times before and people couldn't tell the difference. I looked like a 35 or so year old biker. So I put it on, and tried to get in again, got past the bouncer and all i had to do was make it onto the dance floor to duck behind some people and stuff my new appearance in my pocket, but I hesitated because I thought saw Kat behind me...the other bouncer ran after me, asked for my ID and kicked me out. Apparently a guy who looked like my costume had been working for the local police department checking for carding violations in the area. Just my luck. So I leave, only to find out that I'd locked my keys in my car. The first time I have ever done this. I thought I felt my keys in my pocket earlier, but it was just a guitar pick and some bills. After a series of interesting events involving the police, several drunk people (I was not) and a squirrell, I ended up hitching a ride to my apartment 40 miles away to get my spare key, which had mysteriously disappeared....hitching a ride back to my car and calling 1-800-TOW-TRUC to have my car professionally broken into. If only I had a hanger....So anyway, anybody else have stories like this one?

― B, Thursday, 5 December 2002 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what kind of a club do you have to be 30 to get into?

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 5 December 2002 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't have to be 30, but you some stupid law says you have to show ID if you look less than 30. I guess just to be sure....You only have to be 21...

― B, Thursday, 5 December 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

that's ridiculous. i commiserate over your bad night, btw. i had a bad night too; my 5-a-side football was cancelled for the third time in four weeks 'cause of all the rain. that hardly compares to your catalogue of misfortune but, hey, i feel you.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 5 December 2002 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

We need more about the squirrel!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I've locked my keys in my car with the engine still running. That's pretty embarassing. Thankfully the transmission was in 'park'.

I too still have my halloween costume in my car.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i am confused about your pockets? what sort of guitar pic do you use that made you think it was a key? do you have a credit card type key? and you were planning on stuffing your fake dreadlocks into your pocket?
sorry about the night, ive been there. minus the pocket.

― kephm, Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What Martin said. Talk about burying the lead.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was wearing a jacket at the time with pockets on the inside...the dreads and the beard fit nicely in either side. The guitar pick is a small pick that had been played enough to wear it into an oblong oval shape (I know those are 2 different things) that was caught in a roll of 20's, both of which together are shaped much like my car key.

The squirrell:
I didn't see the begginings of it, but apparently while waiting for a taxi, a few drunk guys wandered into the woods behind the club and ran out screaming "MONSTER!!" Some other not-so-drunk guys went to 'investigate,' and chased out a small squirrell. About this time I walked up and saw the rest. The crowd of people spread around the lot all kind of converged on this squirrell which apparently scared the shit out of it so it went spastic running back and forth and making those squirrell noises. Some genius decided to try to catch it, which was even better because now the squirrell's spastically running back in forth hissing at the crowd while this guy stumbles after it frantically. After a few seconds he lost his balance and fell down at the feet of a big guy with a beer in his hand which startled both of them. The big guy spilled the beer on himself and the other guy, so he pulls this guy up to his feet and pushes him back down. So 4 or 5 guys get in a fight over one little squirrell which has since disappeared, the cops show up, break up the fight and kick everybody out of the parking lot. I couldn't get into my car, they wouldn't jimmy it for me, and everybody had to go, so i walked about a half mile down to the freeway.

― B, Friday, 6 December 2002 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

wow i can't spell today...

― B, Friday, 6 December 2002 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Godspeed, little squirrel.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 6 December 2002 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Time to add to this one....I've just come back from a 12 hour day at work, and abou tout of gas....I stop at a petrol station and pump a few in, but as I start my car it shorts or something and the battery is dead. I call home to have someone come give me a hand...a police officer happens by and we try to jump it (he put the cables on backwards...I laughed..politely of course) and we get nothing..my ride shows up and I leave, but I must get up in a few hours to take car of it...Here's a little overview of my luck with cars...somebody up there doesn't like me:

(Starting with the most recent)

Battery dead...(possibly alternator, see below)

keys locked in (my own dumbass fault)

Fairly new brakes need replacing, as well as most of the related parts that should only need be cleaned

tape deck will no return CD to Tape deck adaptor tape, still there

(deer runs into passenger door while I'm pulled over on the side of (the road stopped rendering my lock useless

(6 hours of sleep after I return home from work, I leave the house )(to go back...driver side door will not open...
((the 2 above happened around the same time...I perfected
my 'Dukes of Hazrad' moves into the front seat))

Brand new Michelin tire (my birthday present) blows a side wall

Alternator dies (2 weeks after buying present car) exatcly 30 minutes after I was forced into a ditch during a blizzard by another car, which resulted in one towing, a 5 mile walk to a friends house, and then another towing the next morning....

car dies (new car bought)

Thermostat blows

Heater dies (heater core, in the middle of winter)

starter dies

breaks fall off (had to use the parking break to get home)

brand new muffler falls off (reattached with a .o43 gauge guitar string)

gas tank leaks about 1/20 of a tank a mile

oh there are too many to mention (I know I've alrady mentioned too many) but he absurd thing is these have all happened in the past year and a half, through no fault of mine except for the keys....and with relatively nice cars....anyway I just thought I'd get that off my chest, I'm a little peev-ed right now.....so any stories like this? Does somebody up there have it out for you too?

― B, Monday, 9 December 2002 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

BRAKES, rather...sorry I'm a compulsive spelling corrector...haha

― B, Monday, 9 December 2002 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

you should get a scooter with a side-car.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 9 December 2002 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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