Frustration Overcome

Oct 22, 2006

9:52 AM

Saturday night I saw a young lady trying to get a bartender's attention the wrong way. She walked up to the bar and tried to make eye contact with the bartender. After waiting for a number of minutes, she turned to me and asked the age-old question, "How do you get waited on?"

I asked, "Have you ever seen Jurassic Park?"

"Yeah."

I continued, "Remember the Jeff Goldblum character explaining how the tyrannosaurus rex can't see you if you don't move?"

"Yeah."

I continued, "Well bartenders are sort of like that. They don't see you unless they can see green. Hold your money up where they can see it, and you'll attract their attention."

The young lady looked at me quizzically. I swore that it would work. I had her hold her twenty-dollar bill about six inches above the bar and toward the trough. The bartender appeared almost instantaneously.