What a night.
I try and for the most part keep this all about training. After all it is a training log.
But tonight was off the chart crazy.
i have been bouncing in bars since I was 18 (drinking age in Canada) Every bar that i have worked at loves me because i don’t drink and i’m not really a party person so to speak. When I was in Tucson AZ doing my GA at U of A (pay 500 a month) i worked at a VERY ruff place. Most of our clients where drug runners, so needless to say i have been shot at, had knives pulled on me.
Had people try and run me over with there cars ect. This past year when the economy went into the tank i started bouncing again. (I should have just cut back on eating out) So i would work 8-10 hour a day at the gym m-f and then work all night friday and saturday night. Plus many weekends my girlfriend at the time would come to visit this lead to a very run down and tired Jim.
When I decided to come back from Colorado I decided to stop bouncing and make some changes in my lifestyle like not eating out 5-7 times a day lol
My rather large roomate is the head door guy at a piano bar downtown. two weeks ago he had 5 guys quit on him all college kids end of semester. So i agreed to help him out until he hired some more people.
Usually our bar is really laid back … not tonight
- open bar is bad.
We had open bar for new years. people show up at 7 and start drinking and drinking … With it being new years and people paying 70 dollars to get in for open bar we try and avoid throwing people out before 12. I am a really patient person i have a super long fuse from years of dealing with drunk people. I honestly can’t remember the last time i got really angery.
I got there at 9 by 11 i had thrown out 15 people. Girls throwing drinks in guys faces, guys falling over passing out. Girls throwing up on tables. Open bars are bad. By the end of the night I threw out about 35 people.
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Bars with two floors are bad.
guess what drunk people do when there is an upper floor they throw stuff down on others. Like bottles full drinks. Then the fun part taking a guy that doesn’t want to leave the bar down the stairs goodtimes. We don’t have radios so most of the time we do this solo the entire time i’m thinking great i am going to get smacked in the back of the head with a beer bottle.
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You know you are getting old when.
i moved to ky in 2001 so many of the kids i trained when i first moved here are old enough to come to the bar now which is kinda weird. There was about 10 kids that played football in the bar tonight which is fun. When people drink they are always honest about how they feel about you. It was nice to hear how much they enjoyed working with me and how they still try and do some of the stuff i did with them way back then.
There was on kid there who i really enjoyed working with such a good kid he is in med school. I worked with him and his sister for three years. i am really close with him family. he was well on his way to being drunk when i talked to him but not too bad.
about 12:30 i was cleaning off tables when i looked up he was staring right at me his back to the road i was inside looking out the window. in slow motion his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell backwards off the curb hitting the ground back of head first. it was bad his head bounced off the cement like a basketball. I went flying out the door people were just standing there staring and laughing.
a huge pool of blood was coming out of the back of his head. I jumped down on the ground took my bar town and put it around the back of head and applyed pressure. His skull was mush i almost started to cried but the action helped me keep it together i was yelling to call 911. lucky a police cruiser pulled and called it in. I spent what seems like forever trying to talk to him. He was talking but it made no sence. his heat rate was all over. He was getting clamy and going into shock.
the paramedics got there and put him on a spine board they were very serious they knew this was big time trouble.
I tried callig his parents after work and couldnt reach them. i went by the hospital i could not get any info because I was not family.
The last six weeks have been intersting and challenging to say the least but this takes the cake.
nothing like holding in the brains of a kid your worked with for 3 years to kick off the new year.
I hope by typing this out on here i will be able to get some sleep.
If you read this please say a prayer for my friend and former client and his family.
Jim
