wow i feel better about what i did after reading you guys' stories!!! o.O
i went out w/ my bf and his brother tagged along to be our DD.
i had wanted to go out to orlando but people balked at the drive. so i suggested st. pete but then a friend called and said "HEY come down to this club/bar in Ybor called Orpheum its so awesome oh god SO FUCKING AWESOME OH FUCK"
we got down there at 9 but it wasnt open yet. so we whiled away the hour at the only place w/o a cover (a sports bar :/).
as we headed over to Orpheum, we saw a place called Hamburger Mary's, which was a transexual-oriented bar/restaurant. there was a very large (like 7' tall and chunky) guy in full drag singing, so we went in. this was actually p awesome. i got a $5 rum runner that was basically a giant mixing bowl with an umbrella. there were some dancing/singing numbers and the service was p fantastic and they gave us free streamers and noisemakers and hats and things. at one point i went to the ladies' bathroom and there was another fella in drag in there with a huge case of makeup out and he asked me about my mascara and i gave him some tips on it.
after a while we figured we should head over to Orpheum anyway just to make an appearance for midnight. we got there and it was kind of dead!!! the drinks were crummy and the stage was empty. we were like the oldest people there. it was all "bohemian" and emo college kids. my bf and i tried to dance but we felt bad about his brother, who was alone and sober. there happened to be some arcade games in the back so we all celebrated midnight with marvel vs. capcom II.
a little later we wandered over to the Castle, a famous 3-story nightclub for weirdos. there was a guy dressed like batman (in the full heavy plastic get-up Christian Bale was always complaining about), and some chicks dressed like naughty nurses and a totally naked guy (except for a sock on his weiner) and
pixyland peter pan was there. they were playing some old dracula movie but it was deader than usual. at one point my bf and i tried to sneak off to the "make-out room" ... but like 2 feet away was this lesbian (well i couldnt tell what gender they were?) couple who were JESUS CHRIST the worst looking people i'd ever seen in my life (i couldnt tell their gender due to just how they looked naturally, not b/c they were in drag or anything) and they smelled weird and were sort of humping so we kinda left after they started glancing our way ;x
by that point i was p fucking drunk but didnt want to go home yet. so we stopped into a strip club that we THOUGHT had a connetced porn shop but that had closed so all we could do was watch some fairly unattractive strippers tease this guy who was like 1200lbs. which was funny at first but the thrill waned and then we went home.
and the next day i felt like shit :toot:
hooray