Day 5: City Streets, East Windsor, NJ
Day 6 will be held the Nottingham Tavern in Hamilton Square, NJ**** (see **** note at bottom of message)
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The scene begins outside a bar previously known as the Chowder Pot and now called City Streets. The door opens and the inside décor strikes you as classy – white tile floors with flecks of black, wood paneling, up-to-date bar with TVs all around, flanked by eating areas – one for bar room patrons, the other for folks who prefer a restaurant setting. The place is bustling with people and there is a beehive buzz in the air. Our intrepid troopers – (must be family night) eman with Lisa and Trent; gman with Su, Cory, and Julian; Donna & Dorian, Frank & Cheryl K. with their son BIG LOU who is 10 yrs older than Frank’s and Cheryl’s parents (let’s see if George Lucas could ever pull off anything like that), ska, tamp, & Scugi - are merrily gathered with drinks in hand. Laura has already come and gone – she lasted about as long as a Pam Anderson marriage. Other Joe and Brother Mark, a friar at local chicken joint, have also come and gone
The camera does a sweep around the bar and we see a friendly face behind the bar. Paddei, who we missed last year because she hit her head and thought she was Florence Nightingale for awhile, has returned to her familiar place. The camera freezes on her for quite awhile to make sure everything is still “in place”; in fact, many cameras are trained over her, all doing the same inspection. The verdict is that everything is still “just where and how it should be.” We dodged a bullet on that one – some Florence Nightingale stories go horribly wrong.
Now there’s a flashback to the morning of Day 5. In bedrooms all over central Jersey, men and women are waking up, holding their heads, grimacing from another AM freight train, and reaching for Advil, Tylenol, or whatever painkiller is nearest. Then you hear a moan, a sigh, and some mumbling about how it can be only Day 5 – will this TDDoC ever end?
Now, were back in the bar. You see the young ‘uns sitting at a table with their moms & dads. The kids are eating the world’s best quesadilla, except for the parts that touched the sour cream – mom has to nibble at those contaminated parts. The camera pans across the table and you see that one of the youngsters has a half-drunken bottle of Beck’s beer in front of him and a guilty smile. Like father, like son, except the son is a good-looking, strapping lad, and the father is the g-man – thankfully, some genes skip at least a generation.
The camera moves back to the bar, but there’s no bartender to scrutinize, so it keeps moving to BIG LOU. BIG LOU has just finished a special course on Advance Statistics for Executives and demands the standard deviation of attendance for each individual along with whether a Rayleigh or Normal distribution would be a more accurate representation of the square root of the mean of … and before he can finish, the camera hurries away and spies Rose, who comes in late. Rose is a strong candidate for the coveted TDDoC 2006 Comeback Player of the Year Award. Rose is on her way to Staples to get index cards because she needs to keep track of each drink we’ve taken at the TDDoC and the pack of 1000 she expected to last to the end of the season is long gone – and it’s only Day 5.
Others arrive – Randy, Stu, fresh from a crime scene and sporting a Jack Klugman autographed white lab coat, blogger Andy Tytla, and Roy O. round out the attendees. And for Roy O. it’s a walk down memory lane, as he and Ska reminisce about a certain ex-Astro employee who used some hair-help back in the day, expect for Roy, this is brand new news, and the camera catches a priceless look of astonishment. Well, that’s all folks, and the scene fades to black.
Except, that’s not all. In the meantime, Andy Milot, flying in from the remote regions of Mongolia – I wonder if that’s redundant? –rushes home to kiss his wife and plead with her to go to City Streets, so he can hang out with all the cool folks who always stay out late on Day 5, especially if it’s on a Wednesday. After intense negotiations, and a harrowing Pods-like drive over to our bar, the camera, still at the bar, catches a look of excitement and glee upon entry into the bar, giving away to confusion and disappointment, followed shortly by heart-ripping-out-of-the-chest rage. Now, we fade to black.
**** Stay tuned, because part 6 of our serial continues tonight at Big Fish, in Princeton Market Fair on Route 1. Hyperlink for more info on Big Fish is provided below.
http://www.muer.com/locations/bigfish_princeton/bigfishprinceton.html
Stats will be blogged at
http://tddoc.blogspot.com/
Points Tally
Ska 5
Rose 3
E-man 5
Bobo 2
G-man 5
Scugi 5
Tamp 5
Kaden 1
Tool 1
Goettle 5
Mertz 1
BB 1
The Other Joe (OJ) 3
The Other Joe’s Brother (Mark) 2
The Swede 1
Dorian 3 (+1*)
Donna 5
Billionaire Pat Worth 2
BIG LOU 4
M. Taddie 1
Su 2
Cory 1
Julian 1
Lisa Eman 1
Trent 1
Kimchick 3
Cheryl 2
MD 3
Larry Not Crack Pipe (LNCP) 2
Mel 3
Jeff 1
Stu 3
Randy 2
Laura 2
Katherine 1
BIG AL 2
Megan 1
Sonya 2
Tytla 2
Uji 1
Rob (not Bob) 1
Porsche Linda 1
Milot 2 (+1*)
Neufeld 1
East Coast Julie 1
Blair 1
Tony Giacobbe (1*)
Roy O 2
Maria Scugi 1
Curt 1
Bennie 1
Big Al’s Pat 1
Alyssa 1
DMilot 2
Colleen 1
Janna 1
Robin 1
* = Illegitimate EC point from west coast participation (debate is on-going)
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