Today Katie and I flyered for two hours and
then got free burgers. After dinner, we came home and got ready to go back to
work at 10. When we got back to Red Garter, Bertie had already signed up 10
teams and it wasn’t even 10 yet. Fabio and Andrea got there shortly after and
proceeded to tell Katie and I what we were doing wrong and that we shouldn’t
have signed up teams even though it wasn’t us who did that. Fabio told us he
and Andrea were going to take over sign ups so we could go have fun and be
ready at 11. We went to check how the sign ups were around 11 and Fabio had
signed up 48 teams. The cut off is 32 but once he accidentally signed up 35, he
had to keep going. Stupid. Long story short, the first round had 3 sets of
teams on the 8 tables and the tournament finally had a winner at 4
AM.
The only good part about working that late was that we were still getting paid.
The tournament was actually a lot of fun though because there were a lot of fun
people there who just kept coming up to the stage and introducing themselves to
Katie and I. The best guy was the one who Katie handed a flyer to earlier in
the day and he turned after he took it and said “I’m going to come because I
want to meet people like you!” He came up and introduced himself to me first
and then a little bit later, he was talking to Katie and asked if she
remembered him as that guy and both of us were like OMG. He was hilarious
though and sang a Broadway rendition of Grease “Summer Loving” to Katie. He
also told us that he needed interesting facts to remember us by and that he
would come back and look for us and we shouldn’t be creeped out he remembered
everything. After the tournament was finally over, we went to the Blob with
Francesco for about 20 minutes and then we got him to take us to the late night
bakery. In Crystal’s Florence book, there was a
blurb about a late night bakery with no name and no address. We tried to find
it a couple times before and Francesco said he knew were it was so he would
take us sometime. Needless to say, the other girls were extremely jealous that
we went there and they didn’t!
