First Timers :
There's my guy on the left. We were up in Big Bear over the 4th of July weekend and on Monday night we went to the bar to have a drinky winky after dinner. The bartender is Chris. Young kid, but very cool. Anyway, the place is dead. My honey and I are the only one's having a drink. In walks these two dudes with top hats and sit down at the bar with us. Their names are 'Joe' and 'Joe' they tell us later. So, they aren't drinking much. The one in the blue is drinking water and the dude in the green who looks like a leprecaun (sp?) is drinking beer. My honey opted to try appletini's for the night. I am drinking gin and tonics. Love 'em. So, Chris goes over and turns on the Kereoke machine and trys to get us going. Well the two Joes' are up for this and get up and proceed to entertain us for the next 3 hours till Midnight. We are suggesting songs, we are punching in numbers and the boys are singing away. A perfect rendition of an Iron Maiden song is on it's way as well as an eye opening version of Brown Sugar that no one realized those were the words. I will never listen to that song again without thinking of those Joes. I get a few gin and tonics in me and I do Mack the Knife. Love that one. Know all the words. Chris does a Johnny Cash tune and Joes are up there again. I am telling you we were singing at the top of our lungs all night. Finally, my honey, who challenges anyone to an arm wrestle who is questioning his manhood for drinking appletini's, has enough of them in him to take a spin.
Doesn't do a solo, but joins the two Joes. I wish I remember the first song, but there were many after that. He even took the dude in the blue shirts top hat from him and wore it while singing that one. Joe in the blue shirt was so cool. I was up there a few times struggling and he would come up there and rescue me. Especially when I started singing 'That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it, uh huh uh huh." And 'Stand by your man..." I had to do an REO speed wagon tune too. 'Take it on the Run!" Who hasn't sung that in their car to the top of their lungs? Raise your hand if you have...Mine is up there. Chantilly Lace comes to mind when all 4 of us were up there with another gal, coincidently named Chantilly. What a fun night. Never forget it. I kept calling up to our son's room and begging him to come down to see his dad singing and he just couldn't face the embarrassment. I almost peed my pants a few times and was horse the next morning. The night wound down and we settled up with Chris and made our way back into our room. No bed spins, no headache the next day. YEAH! I don't 'tie one on' too often. But that was a blast! Here's to us! We broke our cherry as my honey said. Now, we can hold our heads up high and say, we have done Kereoke and survived.