AstroThoughts

Friday, February 27, 2004

Astrorule #3594
DON'T MESS WITH BATON ROUGE.

I was walking up Yonge street today, on my way to the Flip! awards, and I was passing by Baton Rouge. As I passed the entrance doors, two waiters come running out of the doors. They were looking for someone, and I thought someone had forgotten their keys or their credit card or something. I followed them into the mall, because I was gonna kill some time in the mall before I hd to get to Chris' thing, which, by the way, was hype. As soon as I got into the mall, the two waiters had caught up to the guy, except they certainly weren't giving him his credit card. He had apparently skipped out on his bill, and felt he was justified in doing so. So, one of the waiters tried to grab him, but he pulled away from the waiter and kept walking away from them. Well, as all of this was happening, literally all of the waiters had come RUNNING out of the restaurant and they surrounded the guy and showed him the bill he had skipped out on. Okay, kinda stupidly, the waiters just stood near him while one of them went to get mall security. So, obviously, and stupidly, the guy tried to run away. FROM 12 GUYS. Okay, obviously he was stupid for skipping out on his bill, but seriously, he got JACKED by the waiters. Actually, a guy who was standing next to me stuck out his leg and tripped the guy. He did one of those "slappy" falls, where you make a slapping sound when you hit the ground. And, as he was falling, one of the more spry waiters was jumping on him in the air. So that waiter landed on the guy at the same time as he slapped onto the floor. Then 3 other waiters jumped on his back. They were all really pissed at this guy. I guess they all have to pay for any losses the restaurant incurrs from unpaid bills. Anyways, this all happened in a matter of 10 seconds, but the best was yet to come. One of the pudgier waiters came in after all the real action was over, just as the 4 waiters were pinning the guy to the ground, and he put his knee on the back of the guy's neck and yelled in his ear, "AND STAY DOWN!" And he was serious too. Haha...good old pudgy guys.

So, the moral of the story is that if you're thinking of skipping out on a bill - and i know some of you are - DON'T MESS WITH BATON ROUGE.

I saw so many cool people at the Flip! awards tonight. I saw PJ Phil, who's now a dirty, dirty man who lives with his mom and does nothing. I saw Hazel Mae, who thinks that everyone wants her job. I saw a really really cool DJ who I wanna hear sometime at Sugar Nightclub. And I saw some old friends from high school who were pissed that Philipino's are even worse with deadlines than Indians. They had a show to do after the Flip! awards, and the awards ended 2 hours late. Anyways, here's me with my Flip! award. I won for being the only non-filipino person in the room. I represented for Indians all around the world.

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