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So, this was a really long night, so I will give you the cliff notes
I arrived with the sole job of helping my wife get her props ready on stage and hang out with some friends at a nice table in the restaurant that we had reserved.
The day started with every single person that I asked to come and support us cancelling and not coming.....ug
then the house mom, which happens to be a REALLY old friend of ours, asking me if I can help out with the other girls while they get ready on stage...I think to myself, sure, it will be some nice tipout money from the girls and according to the waitress I can get some drinks out of it..
I spend the entire evening helping all the ladies get ready on stage, working manual labor for a good 4 hours...
the night ends with 3 girls that barely did anything on stage winning because they had an insane amount of friends cheering and throwing their money on stage....when I say their money, I mean the girls money that was planted to boost their tips up, tips where one of the judging criteria....so, yay!
Then after everything is all over every girl leaves as quick as she got there and doesn't slip me $1 for helping them out...yay!
Then 20 minutes after the show is over the waitress that I was getting drinks from hands me a $80 bill for EVERY SINGLE PERSON where I was sitting, and when I complained said that it was a bill for "my" table...um, I didn't actually have a table, I was helping girls all night...then we had to take 30 minutes after this trying to talk to the manager, who was drunk, explaining why we aren't paying for other peoples drinks...they knock the bill down to $40, which I guess is what a glass of wine and 2 beers costs (NOT)....yay!
then we ask why I am getting out of working all evening, and they ignore us and walk away...yay!
then I walk up to Courtney, the person who asked me to help out (our friend of 10 years now), and ask what I am getting out of working the entire evening, only to have her boyfriend of 1 month stand up and push me and tell me "don't you talk to her like that", and courtney just sits there....yay!
all in all, this evening, we learned:
1. friends won't show up, even when they know something is important to you
2. in order to win contests, you HAVE to cheat and scam
3. people who ask you do help them want it done for free
4. no matter how hard you work on something and make it better than everyone else, it doesn't matter because you didn't cheat.
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