a sad but true story that turned out good...
Alright, our founders day this formal was got off to a great start. We had a newly opened hotel lined up to hold our banquet at, and a discount on a block of rooms for our alumni. Catering, the DJ, the buses, all that was lined up way in advance.
The RSVPs were coming in, everything was looking good. Three weeks before our formal, the hotel went out of business. They had a $55,000 electric bill I guess. So boom, they didn't answer the phone or anything. We lost out on our $250 deposit.
But more importantly we had no place to host our formal! After two weeks of making calls and trying to figure stuff out, we finally got the local Masonic Temple lined up. They have a really nice facility so it worked out good. We finally got everything figured out and reserved on a Monday, and our founders day was THAT SATURDAY!
So it's game time. We all show up. Everything is going well. We head to the bar to get a drink, and there is one nice older women working the bar. She thought it was going to be a shriner event, so they just had one bartender who was not very experienced at making drinks. So there are about 20 people lined up at the bar to get a drink, so two of our bros who are bartenders ask her if she wants help and she said "hell yeah!" So we have two of our bros behind the bar mixing drinks! They hoped back there whenever it got busy, and everyone had lots of fun. The nice lady bartender was having a blast, dancing with us and doing shots and everything.
It was all put together last minute, and some minor problems once we got there. Oh yeah, our historian (who sets up formal) had to make both a pop run and a beer run two different times because the caterers ran out at the bar.
But it all ended well, and we had a blast!!!
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