I prefer The Lounge night vibe better than the day vibe...

[enigmatic]

Seems like it's a dimly lit bar where Tom Waits is playing the broken down piano in the corner, next to the bathroom...

[New Earth]

1. the morning crew Lounge doesn't like me

:cry:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Don't worry. Nobody likes me at all.

[Heidi]

15. Untrue.

Your night crew DU family loves you to pieces, CG. :pals:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. Aww thanks Heidi. Now I can go to sleep.

[WCGreen]

20. No Fair.....

It's daytime in Switzerland....

But stay, we need a european perspective.....

[Heidi]

23. Your DU night-shift family loves you, too, WCGreen.

:hug:

Now, we just need our bro Enigmatic to play "Strangers In the Night."

[enigmatic]

30. You got it!

Which version? There are a million of them...

[Heidi]

31. Sinatra, of course!

Thanks, enigmatic! :hug:

[enigmatic]

36. anything for you, Heidi

:hug:

[WCGreen]

32. I just listened to the an hour ago.....

Spookey

[Heidi]

34. Life's a circle, not a line . . .

(just in case you were running short on touchy-feely, introspective one-line, philosophical musings. :rofl: )

[WCGreen]

37. You can never have enough intorspective one liners....

Look at how popular Uncle I mean Dr. Phil has become....

[enigmatic]

25. Hey, you're jake w/ me...

Anybody who knows who Frank Fontaine is..damn..

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. Thanks!

[enigmatic]

5. They don't like you??

I'll bust some kneecaps:)

[New Earth]

6. nope

they dont pay attention to me :blush:

[enigmatic]

10. That's ok

I'm invisible in the daytime, too; different crowd...

[madeline_con]

16. Sometimes...

I wonder if I'm on a lot of ignore lists.

But, I realize I get some replies and just go on without replying to the reply, etc.

Maybe they read, and don't comment. ??

[madeline_con]

2. as opposed to...

a flourescent-lit office with the din of 1000 keyboards and phones ringing?

[enigmatic]

7. You got it!

too busy..

[Zomby Woof]

4. The piano has been drinking

Not me!

[enigmatic]

9. Great song...

I know everybody likes the Waits post-Asylum years, but I still prefer his early stuff. Closing Time is one of the greatest albums ever made..

[WCGreen]

8. They just don't get it man.....

The night is different from the day....

At night the posts drift by....

In the day they tap out staccato like....

And flip off into the back reaches of the lounge, never to be answered.... Snifff

It's sad really....

Let's start a fund for unaswered posts.....

[enigmatic]

13. The thing about the middle of the night..

and being not only awake but alert, is that it's a time that cries out for melacholy and introspection, and that's something not alot of people can handle in more than a few small doses..

[WCGreen]

17. Yea, Venus Fly Trap.....

[enigmatic]

22. da man..

[madeline_con]

21. "melacholy and introspection"

It's also tough to do with that first cuppa joe and a smoke...

[WCGreen]

26. Yea, that jolts you

But on your tenth cup at night....

It's a reverse smoooooothing thing

[enigmatic]

27. That's true

It's more of a "Jesus, I have to get through this day w/o killing myself or somebody else.." thing..

[CanuckAmok]

11. and you can say "penis" without getting deleted.

I mean, probably.

[enigmatic]

14. That, too...

[madeline_con]

24. The magistrate's...

looking over your shoulder, dude.

[CanuckAmok]

33. "A wed wose...how owdinawy."

n/t

[madeline_con]

38. Wed woses...

are vewy womantic...

[LastKnight]

12. the day is just too high-energy for me...

i like the night too. you get the drunk, the insomniacs, the depressed, the lovelorn, the painfully happy types, the artists and musicians, and any combination of these. and for some reason, it works, dammit.

[enigmatic]

19. Yeah

I was a bartender for years, and the differences between the nighttime crowds and the daytime crowds were profound...

[madeline_con]

29. Daytime drinkers...

are hard core, aren't they? I mean the real pros. Like, they gave up good jobs to drink full time. :shrug:

[enigmatic]

35. In a sense..

The daytime drinkers like you mentioned are the ones who never really slept to begin w/; they were up all night and were waiting at the bar when it opened up for the day. It was 24 hours to them; time didn't matter.

The daytime drinkers were the work/lunch social drinkers mostly; as the night creeped in, they left and were replaced by the hard-core crowd...

I had a guy who was a regular who used to come in every night and drink scotch and waters til closing while propping up a picture of his deseased wife on the empty glasses. Never said anything, just looked at the picture. That guy haunted me for a long time...

[IChing]

39. That is an Joke by the late famous Irish comic

I had a guy who was a regular who used to come in every night and drink scotch and waters til closing while propping up a picture of his deseased wife on the empty glasses. Never said anything, just looked at the picture. That guy haunted me for a long time...

But the wife wasn't deceased and the bar tender asked if he love that girl
and the man said no, it's my wife,
it's when she be looking good I know I've had enough
and it's time to go home.

[enigmatic]

41. No, this was real

Came in like clockwork for 6 years. I had him for a year and a half while I was working that shift; I learned the backstory from the other bartenders there. I never cared because he left a good tip, but that face, damn..

[madeline_con]

40. Damn...

that's sad.

[enigmatic]

42. it was

But it was fun doing it for the most part; the regulars were pretty harmless..

[WCGreen]

43. Here's a part of a short story I am writing....

Zelly's, the latest name of the tavern that traced it's history back about a hundred years, clung to the cliff side of the road that wound down into the Valley. It was early morning, just after the shift change at the steel plant that spread out and obliterated the river that made the whole flatland possible in the first place. Past Zelly's, on the way down, there was no visible trace of nature left. No grass, no trees, just gravel, grime and gritty air that carried tiny bits of steel by product out to the rest of Cleveland.

It was time for the quick crowd, the one's who came in after the steel workers had fortified themselves for either a day in the inferno or a day spent trying to catch some sleep while the rest of the world went about the business of living a normal life. This was the "calm the nerves" shot drinking crowd. The ones who took the short cut threw the valley and made a stop at Zelly's for a pick me up on the way to work somewhere else. No one they knew would see them stop in. It was a safe bet. A little anasyth and no one was any of the wiser.

At this time of day, it was well liquor, the cheap stuff. At night, that's a different story, that's a different crowd. Drinking well liquor at night was a coming out of sorts, a decleration that the downward spiral had begun and was dangerously close to the point of no return. None of these customers gave a shit about appereances when they entered the mornig of perpetual twilight. This was all about wanting to stop the shakes. This was all about desperately seeking a semblence of normalality, at least enough to make it one more day on the job. Tomarrow. That's an entirely different story. Worry about that latter. All that mattered now was today.

The morning bartender never had a chance to let go of a bottle. He poured quick relief, chatter was saved for the afternoon crowd. These guys would come in waves. As soon as one man felt ready for the day another would take his place. It was just another Cleveland assembly line. Zelly was tapped, he couldn't take it any more. Hadn't been able to now for almost ten years. As soon as the steel workers left he would retreat into the kitchen, peering out at the human wreckage from a safe perch off to the side of the serving window so no one could see in. He felt no guilt, no complicency what so ever. But he had to watch. To look at what was playing out in the bar he owned, the bar his father had left him suddenly twelve years before, the bar that sucked down all of his plans.

If nothing else Zelly was a realist. He knew these guys would drink rubbing alcohol if they had too. He tried to just stay out of the way and give them a safe haven, a place where no one would pass judgement. By the time a man showed up here, it was a done deal. All that was left was how much time they had.

Those first few years, back when Zelly had taken the morning shift on, he had no idea what was happening across the oak divide. Zelly had, like all the sons of small business owners, pitched in when he could. But it was always at night, around his schedule. Always when the music played, When the people would talk, eat, drink and laugh. Zelly's was a fun place with a lot of laughing going on at night.

That was the first thing that smacked Zelly like a cold rag too the face after a night of way too many drinks. No laughter. No talk. Just the sound crumbled bills or the little piles of change made as they shoved it at him in exchange for a shot or two. Coughs and hacks and that was it. Within the hour, it was all over. Bam. Steel workers. Bam. Nerve calming. Bam. The long lull to lunch.

[enigmatic]

45. That's freakin' great

Seriously. Reminds me of a bar in Tremont where the hard-cores used to go. Clevo had alot of those kinds of places; even Lakewood, on Madison in Birdtown had it's share..

[WCGreen]

Oh yea.... What do you think I use as inspiration.....

I was there man, drinking on the way to work....

22 years ago I gave up the drink

[enigmatic]

49. I used to be hard-core

Just like Bukowski; since I've been up here I've relaxed a great deal on it. I still have night where I howl at the moon, but back then it was every night....

[WCGreen]

50. It's a whole lot better than howlin in the morning

[IChing]

48. great story, more humor and sad irony

is needed to any great story.


There were never a great humorist or story teller that was a Conservative

or was there? MMMm

[enigmatic]

51. I can't think of any

seriously, is there any?

[Tallison]

55. So where's the rest?

I liked it more and more the further I read - always a good sign.

On edit: So seriously, where's the rest???

[WCGreen]

56. I'm not finished yet.....

[MrScorpio]

44. The late night crew is my fave

Sometimes I get no love during the daytime

[enigmatic]

46. You're a late-night kind of guy, my friend

All the answers to the world appear at 3am and disappear by dawn..

[Heidi]

47. You're one of _this_ night-shift DUer's faves. (nt)

[IChing]

52. I thought I had no Saturday Night

I was so disappointed that the Universe
didn't allow me to go to the Cal. meeting today but
this place helps a lot
all of you, bless you

I hardly ever post in the lounge in the daytime

i always come here for the laugh,escape, love and wisdom.

[WCGreen]

53. Yea, I feel at home here........

[enigmatic]

54. No prob

We're always here to hang out with..

[bicentennial_baby]

57. Are you feeling better today?

I'm still on Cloud 9, but I want you to be happy too! :hug: :)

[In_The_Wind]

58. you're here posting while I'm sleeping

:yourock:

[progmom]

59. last night was my first prolonged experience with it in a long time

lots o' fun. :hi:

[WCGreen]

60. Morning Sunshine........

[progmom]

62. hey!

:hi:

[WCGreen]

63. Well your all chiper in the PM.....

After that almost all nighter....

[progmom]

64. progdad let me sleep in!

i didn't have to get out of bed when progspawn woke up at 7. :bounce:

[WCGreen]

65. Mrs. WCGreen let me sleep in as well.....

Although we took the mother in law on a trip to the country to buy corn....

[progmom]

66. i saw that thread

and now i am hungry! :D

[WCGreen]

67. Don't you have a lot of farms around your area....

[progmom]

68. well yes

i didn't say i don't have access to corn.
i just an sitting in my office catching up on work, with no corn in my immediate vicinity. :P

[WCGreen]

69. Well Duh, What was I thinking....(Smack my Forehead)

Michigan has more farming than Ohio.....

My Wife's best friend lives up in the middle of now where.....

BTW, did you read the beginning of my short story that I posted up above......


I would really value your opinion.....

[bicentennial_baby]

61. That's when the magic happens...

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

70. I'm with you, enigmatic...

The night crowd seems more responsive and laid-back to me...So what am I doing here now? Nothing else to do...

See ya later, dude...

:applause: