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Wednesday, December 7, 2005

11:45 — GhettoRita

Posted by on December 7 at 23:45 PM

My friend Brad is on a smoky pub crawl with six of his friends to commemorate their last night of freedom. Between them all, they have a collective 71 years of smoking. They’re at the Comet now, on Capitol Hill, and Brad reports:

“It’s the worst. It’s karaoke and the crowd sucks.”

It was better earlier, he says, when they were at the Bus Stop, where the owners had to open the door because the bar got so smoky. The Bus Stop also had a smokers’ special, a GhettoRita, which is a margarita made with tequila and Squirt. Cost: $3. “It was beautiful,” Brad says. Also: “Everyone had a cigarette.” That was beautiful too, he says.

Brad sounds a bit drunk.

“Then we went to Linda’s, and we ordered drinks and asked the bartender, What’s going to happen at midnight? And she said, ‘I don’t know, nothing. I’m not going to enforce it.’ Same here at the Comet. Bartender’s not going to do anything. Well, now there’s talk of us going to the Madison Pub next. And now the straight guy I’m with is looking very gay, so I’m tempted to drag him there.”