I Had Nothing to do with Getting Kicked out of Serail

In keeping with my talent for getting kicked out of places, I have been kicked out of Serail, the fancy dance club near Bab Sharqi. At least it wasn't my fault. I went with a group of friends from Jerimana for a rap party advertised as "Ladies Free, Guys 500 SL ($10) - 1 hard drink and 2 soft drinks". This turned out to be false advertising, for though Abyad wa Aswad (White and Black), a local rap duo performed a few songs in the middle of the dance floor to a rap beat, the rest of the songs were sadly deformed by techno beats, rendering them shit. And the bar didn't even hold on its drinks with entry price deal. When we first got there they said that the choice was between 1 hard drink OR 2 soft drinks, but Tariq raised hell and they said he could have 1 hard drink and 1 soft drink. Then an hour later, this had changed to 1 soft drink OR 1 hard drink, then a hard drink if you pay an extra 100 SL. To express his anger to the bartender, Tariq flailed his arms in the air, accidently hitting and breaking some of the glasses above the bar. The bartender jumped over the bar to hit him, but Tariq beat him up until security came and escorted him and his friends outside. Turns out the night before the bartender had gotten in another fight with an Italian kid I know.

The best part of the evening by far was fitting the 7 of us into a taxi from Jerimana to Bab Sharqi.