REMINISCE
There are a number of people that I have either ran across or met on this journey to North Carolina. I just wanted to reminisce on them as I am soon to be leaving.
The first couple of weekends here, I knew that I needed to go to the Mash house in order to re-contact old friends or acquaintances. I ran across a ton of people that are now living here or were here for their own short journey. To include going to a great party where everyone else I knew had attended.
A couple of weeks had gone by when I was hanging out with these old friends. The only problem was they go to the same places to hang out and never deviate from their hangouts. Here is the every weekend schedule: Mash house from 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. then off to It’s complex from 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. The whole scene was ok but every weekend I would see the same people at each location. In other words, I got bored. If you know anything about me it is I do not care much for big club scenes where they play the exact same music. Don’t get me wrong, I like the music but it is like all the radio stations here, they play it too much.
I then started trying out different bars and clubs to see what Fayetteville had to offer. I stayed away from big places that I knew everyone would be at. I ended up liking a couple of places that I felt comfortable hanging out in. The Big Apple is a sports bar but has multiple pool tables and is quite large for the small amount of people that were ever in there. The only problem with the place is it is located right outside a military base and has a lot of skin head kids hanging out in it. So I found, for an afternoon and early evening place, it would do fine.
The later evening place I found was a place called The Office. It serves imported beer (Guinness on tap) and the customers were mostly locals that were not in the military. It is quite small but it was comfortable and I never had to talk about my job there. At this place I met a guy named Steve. He is a 40 year old, gray long hair, and is in a band that is really going nowhere. But he is a great guy to talk to and brought on a new perspective of life because he had never been in the military.
After a couple of times hanging out with him, he showed me another little bar called Spirits which is a couple of blocks from The Office. It has a live rock band every once in a while and again, it is a place that mostly locals hang out in. After hanging out a couple of times, Steve invited me to his Thanksgiving Day feast which I has a great time at.
Now let me tell you a little about Steve. He is a great guy but he does have small things that are weird to me. He collects Star Wars items and has since the first movie came out in the 70’s. They are placed all over his house. Being that I never got into that kind of stuff it seemed weird to me at first but then got used to it. Second, he lives with his mother. Now, I don’t know if he owns the house or she does but she is a great woman. The few times I have talked to her, she seems like she is very kind hearted.
Since being here, a great friend of mine has moved here. I had worked with this guy in Washington and then we hung out together in Okinawa. It was great for me because after being here for a couple of months, I needed to hang out with someone that I truly related to.
Thinking back on this trip, I had a good time and learned a lot about a job that I had been doing for a year and did not clearly know how to do. So over all, thank you.
The first couple of weekends here, I knew that I needed to go to the Mash house in order to re-contact old friends or acquaintances. I ran across a ton of people that are now living here or were here for their own short journey. To include going to a great party where everyone else I knew had attended.
A couple of weeks had gone by when I was hanging out with these old friends. The only problem was they go to the same places to hang out and never deviate from their hangouts. Here is the every weekend schedule: Mash house from 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. then off to It’s complex from 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. The whole scene was ok but every weekend I would see the same people at each location. In other words, I got bored. If you know anything about me it is I do not care much for big club scenes where they play the exact same music. Don’t get me wrong, I like the music but it is like all the radio stations here, they play it too much.
I then started trying out different bars and clubs to see what Fayetteville had to offer. I stayed away from big places that I knew everyone would be at. I ended up liking a couple of places that I felt comfortable hanging out in. The Big Apple is a sports bar but has multiple pool tables and is quite large for the small amount of people that were ever in there. The only problem with the place is it is located right outside a military base and has a lot of skin head kids hanging out in it. So I found, for an afternoon and early evening place, it would do fine.
The later evening place I found was a place called The Office. It serves imported beer (Guinness on tap) and the customers were mostly locals that were not in the military. It is quite small but it was comfortable and I never had to talk about my job there. At this place I met a guy named Steve. He is a 40 year old, gray long hair, and is in a band that is really going nowhere. But he is a great guy to talk to and brought on a new perspective of life because he had never been in the military.
After a couple of times hanging out with him, he showed me another little bar called Spirits which is a couple of blocks from The Office. It has a live rock band every once in a while and again, it is a place that mostly locals hang out in. After hanging out a couple of times, Steve invited me to his Thanksgiving Day feast which I has a great time at.
Now let me tell you a little about Steve. He is a great guy but he does have small things that are weird to me. He collects Star Wars items and has since the first movie came out in the 70’s. They are placed all over his house. Being that I never got into that kind of stuff it seemed weird to me at first but then got used to it. Second, he lives with his mother. Now, I don’t know if he owns the house or she does but she is a great woman. The few times I have talked to her, she seems like she is very kind hearted.
Since being here, a great friend of mine has moved here. I had worked with this guy in Washington and then we hung out together in Okinawa. It was great for me because after being here for a couple of months, I needed to hang out with someone that I truly related to.
Thinking back on this trip, I had a good time and learned a lot about a job that I had been doing for a year and did not clearly know how to do. So over all, thank you.
posted by Alex Ander at 7:43 AM
2 Comments:
glad that you are finding the good things in fayettenam now that you are nine days from LEAVING!!! hehehe. no worries. just get your ass home!
He sounds like this guy that I work with. Glad you had a good visit. Reminiscing is good.
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