Another late post 🤣🤣🤣, I digress.
This was a good night and perhaps a little more dynamic than the usual. I will try and write this one quick.
Made it out to NB and to Northbridge Brewery just after. Pretty busy out there. Went inside NBB and looked for JC and eventually saw and crept up behind and prepared to kick JC (not hard obviously). This was a big crew already eight others not including me. Vesper’s close friends who JC and I are also friends with. Most of them had been drinking at the brewery since 2pm!!! Safe to say we had to leave after AJ was showing signs of inebriation and security become forceful - not much we could do here. Headed down the shifty part of Northbridge, down James St towards Brass Monkey - so shifty.
Fast forward to Universal Bar.
An older crowd as expected but this was not a bad thing. Busy too. The peripheral of my vision caught a glimpse of an old, familiar friend... one that I had not seen for a long time... (the English Premier League). Maybe it was because Ronaldo was back at Man Utd after a decade away and he had just scored like he hasn’t lost anything at all but this was the point I started tweeting and taking Snapchats of random things like the water logged bathroom floor. I kept drinking, we waited, I discussed with Jas if we were going to stay here, I put small earplugs in to save energy because the music is so loud and I don’t want to wake up with ringing ears. I went to the bar to grab another drink and a harmless man probably in his fifties asked how my night was going and I said “yeah not bad, yours?” He said “good, I’ve got a root lined up”, I didn’t know what to say so said “that’s a good start”, he looked a little confused, I ordered my drink and walked off.
We were at the point now where the 2pm crew was starting to fatigue... Jas, Vesper, myself and MB were getting ready to make a move and go to Niche. We are on the middle of the dance floor with some others, the man before is among us and I’m trying to work out which woman (or man) he was referring to... I can’t work out which one but we head outside quickly after. It is cool outside and lively, we walk past our 2019 friend Palace Arcade - familiar territory, especially because it’s cold... AJ is clearly drunk and needs to get home before he gets cleaned up by a car. This is where everyone splits and the usual three (JC, me, LV) plus MB jump into a cab and head to Leederville... much more familiar than Universal Bar. It is about 1215am now.
We’re in the line but it’s not busy so we’re in soon. My first time back since they changed the decor and it looks good. New bar staff though? The next two hours I drink a little, tweet Nick and think about taking mirror selfies in the bathroom because I’m so in love with life... I’m def slightly drunk. I remember there was like a 40 year old woman (she looked nice, could have passed for 30’s) was talking to us but then she went off with some other guy. Later on she got angry at MB, looked like it was getting heated. She walks away, a few minutes pass, I can see MB is processing all of this in his head and then he rapidly walks over to her at the bar to clear this misunderstanding... I’m impressed. Fervently apologising to clear the air. At this point it’s about 210 and I realise that I’m not going to make the 219 train home, so I end up saying goodbye and making the journey back home on foot. This is another arduous walk home but one that I don’t mind.
