well I didn't run into Tim Riggins (I wont lie to ya, I'm pretty sad about it) but I did meet half of the cast from new girl! Well this isn't true, but I swear we met their twins.
On Friday night me and Lanae went to a country two-steppin bar...there is no set of words that will accurately describe what I saw but jasmine got pretty close with "a whole new world!" The bar was called Mavericks. Initially it didn't seem very promising, it was tucked away behind a gas station in a strip mall type joint. But the second we walked in country twang beamed from every direction. The music was loud and seemed to call to you..."shake them hips!" Every person that passed me looked as if they had stepped out of a country western...like the kinda thing you wear to parties that are country themed...only it's real life here. tight jeans, cowboy boots, beer...everywhere.
After a few hours of dancin with creepy old men (and a little liquid courage...a lot of liquid courage) I asked someone my own age to teach me a thing or two. Gary, who would later come to be known as Schmidt, was the first to take me up on it! (In the show he's the ridiculously funny one!) If you've never seen the show new girl, I'm sorry, this story wont be nearly as funny! But after a dance (and constant laughter) with Schmidt his friend, AK,whom we now refer to as Winston, gave it a go with me. AK stuck out like a sore thumb (like he does in the show), he's from Nigeria but said he was "Americanized" when he joined a frat in Texas a few years before, which he explained is when he learned to two-step. (a little different from the dance moves you might learn from a frat in Washington!) And their friend,Brennan, now known as Nick, sat and watched us dance for most of the night. (appropriate because in the show Nick is stubborn and can be kinda an Eeyore). No matter how much we begged and prodded (or how many drinks we offered)...nope, he wasn't dancin.
Me and Lanae walked out with em at the end of the night,we chatted and laughed before we felt like we might fall asleep standing up thus decided it was time to call it a night! (we drove home kicking ourselves...why did we NOT give them our numbers?!?)
Well Me and Katie went out to a different country place the next night (Lanae couldn't join us). We got there before the rush, talked with some of her friends and took a few strangers up on their offer to dance. As I was walkin off the dance floor with George (a true cowboy about half my size but sweet as can be) my eyes were instantly caught by the only man in the club with skin as dark as the room. Schmidt and Winston!!! (apparently Nick wouldn't be bothered with nonsense like dancing that night!) we danced the night away...correction: they danced the night away, I did my best to keep up!
If I lived in Austin and got to choose, these guys would be my friends. They had a tendency to swoop in and save me from awkward situations. (like the characters in the show with Jess). It didn't make the situations any more normal, I still looked dumb (like Jess does 99% of the time in the show) and everything about me being in a country bar two-steppin felt unnatural, but when you got people laughin with ya, you barely got time to notice people are laughin at ya!
All that to say, ABC, if you need a country themed show, full of redneck jokes, cowboys and two-steppin, you're welcome to use my life as your inspiration for your next episode.
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