This is an hilarious little story to share with you guys while I work on a much more EPIC story in the background. This should serve as a lesson that you should always choose your words wisely before you strike up a conversation with a random, good looking guy at a local bar in Jamaica.
One night, while staying in Portland to do my review of Seacliff Hotel, my travel partner and I decided to make a little jaunt over to San Bar Villa, one of the places I reviewed last year. Since I was back in the area, I wanted to visit the butler that I became friends with there and hang out on their waterfront for the evening. We were fresh out of beverages and there were no stores between our hotel and that villa so we decided we’d just stop in at the first local bar we saw and stock up on some drinks for the three of us.
Sure enough, we found a bar that looked like it would have what we wanted so we pulled in off the road and walked up to the bartender to put in our liquor order. I think she was a little surprised at how much we needed from such a tiny place. If I remember correctly, we picked up about eight Red Stripe, a couple flasks of hard liquor and a BUNCH of mix.
While she was gathering what we needed, my friend and I struck up a conversation with a handsome young man sitting at the bar. He was wearing dress pants, a dress shirt and a tie, and was very clean cut. So we proceeded to explain that we were on our way out to visit with friends and that we needed all this liquor for the drive. I was cracking jokes left, right and center about drinking and driving and he just laughed.
As the bartender was double-bagging our heavy liquor order the man asked our names while reaching out to shake our hands. After we introduced ourselves as Kristi and Carmen, he then introduced himself……
……as Corporal Daley of the Portland Police.
I have never back-pedaled so fast in a conversation LOL! I assured him that the drinking and driving story was all a big JOKE and he and the bartender just laughed.
Before we left the little bar we assured him that if we ended up in jail somewhere we’d be sure to call Corporal Daley for assistance.
Moral of the story:Â Know who you’re talking to before cracking stupid jokes that could ruin your life.
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