The Bucks Night
What an interesting Thursday night Chris' bucks night was. Lots of partying, Beer and Beam, 3 arrests, and 1 very very boring buck. We started off down at Irish Murphies, me, Travers, Travers' friend Simon and my friend Tim. We had a few beers, including a "Black Death in Custody" (Pint of Guiness with a shot of Kaluha) and then a tasty meal, and decided it was time to catch a cab up to Chris' place to start the partying...
There were quite a few more people up at Chris' place, and it looked like the beginnings of a good night. We had a few more beers, Beam & Cokes and other stuff, before deciding to head back down to Irish Murphies to start Chris on his list of challenges. Here is a close copy of the list of tasks we gave him:
5 Points
Skull 10 oz beer at every Bus Stop.
Introduce yourself as Casa Nova at every stop.
Drink Flaming Sambuca.
Speak in a foreign accent of choice for an entire stop over.
Score a free drink from some one not a the bucks party.
Get kissed by a female
10 Points
Sniff Sambuca from an upturned shot-glass.
Use the pick up line "Do you sleep on your stomach? Mind if I do" or "Hi, I'm an organ donor. Need anything?"
Get lady to apply make-up. Double points if done in ladies room.
Identify a lady wearing a G-String and get colour information.
Skull 1 litre of beer in under 15 seconds.
20 Points
Identify lady wearing no underwear.
Dance with female bar staff member.
Swap item of clothing with someone not at the bucks Party.
Obtain $10 from some one not at the bucks party.
Have photo taken with police officer.
Obtain and wear a wig from someone not on the bucks party
Use female toilets.
Obtain a respectable female date for the best man.
50 Points
Serve a beer behind the bar.
Obtain a bottle of sprits for free from behind the bar.
Obtain a ride in a police car.
Get nipples suck by female.
Obtain some ladies underwear.
So armed with this list, we headed off down to the Irish to see how many tasks Chris could complete. I must admit I was hoping for something like Rob Fleming's bucks night, where Rob completed so many of the tasks we were all totally shocked (and proud)
When we got to Irish there was a band playing, so we went up to them and asked them to read out the list, in the hope this might inspire Chris to get his act together and attempt a few. But to no avail. Chris wouldn't do a thing (Except stand around and drink) so I managed to convience a couple of girls to kiss him, and also someone to put her apply her lipstick to him. I got a few photos of that too, so I'll post them here as soon as I get them back.
After a disappointed effort at Irish, we decided to go over to Isobar, which is a new pub/nightclub down at Hobart's waterfront. We went in there for a few more drinks and to see if maybe Chris would try a few tasks this time. The ONLY thing he did all night was ask the cute chick behind the bar if she'd dance with him. But she said no (she wasn't allowed to aparantly) so that was a let down. By this stage Dion (Chris' cousin) was pretty sh*tfaced, and when he he went outside to go to the upstairs nightclub they wouldn't let him back in. I saw him outside and said to him "Wait there, I'll go collect everyone and we'll go home because the night isn't really going anywhere." He slurred something back at me, and I went inside.
When we all did file out 5 minutes later, Dion was nowhere to be seen. Oh well we thought, and all got into the car and drove up to the Mens Gallery. A real let down too, it was closed. So we called it a night and went home. Most people had already left anyway, and there isn't really much open at 1:30am on a Thursday night/Friday morning.
When we got home we all sat around still drinking and listening to music. I decided to go to bed at 3am, because I'd been up since 2am with my flight over from NZ. I woke up again about 5am and went downstairs to get a drink of water. Chris, Andrew and Travers were still up partying, but I went back to bed. When I got up a 7am I was talking to Chris, who'd just had 2 phone calls. The first was that Dion was in police custody. Turns out he'd tried to stagger back to Chris' place (and made it) but in his drunken state had walked into the wrong apartment (there are 4 in a row that all look the same.) The Police turned up and arrested him. The first Dion says he knew about it was when he woke up in the Police cell.
The next phone call was Travers and Andrew (they'd left to "do stuff" about 5am) saying they'd just got out of the Police station. They'd decided to go climbing up the big crane down at Salamanca, and had got about 1/4 of the way up (and back down too) when the Police arrived to "have a little chat" with them. At least they managed to get away without being charged.
So that was the bucks night. We all met up down at the Casino for breakfast at about 8:30am to see the new day in. Chris let the side down in a big way with his dismal effort, but everyone still had a good time. It was now time to get prepared for the wedding the next day...