My GirlFriend - My Character Certificate

Something happened the other day that really really pissed me off. It takes most ppl A LOT of effort to piss me off so much...but this one bloke managed to do it with just 6 words. and boy o boy..my face could have looked like the sun at dawn..Redd. And the place where this happened happened to be Redd too...a place on Rd No.1 at Banjara Hills called Cinnabaar Redd.

It started like this..one of my ex-teammates and a very close frend is leaving for higher studies and he was treating us (yes i know a farewell is a more appropriate thing to do at such times ...we did that too..but that is no reason to let go of a party). So 6 of us decided to meet up at this Redd place for a rendezvous one of these evenings. Now the sex wise breakup of our coterie was 5 guys and 1 girl. Now that the place was decided, we fixed up a time and reached that place. 3 of us(all guys) reached a lil earlier than the others and entered the place. This place has a restaurant and a separate retro bar / pub. So we entered the restaurant and nicely sat our asses down on a table (thats just the way it is said..actually we sat our asses down on chairs) for 6. By the looks of it, the place looked pretty OK (it was my first....and trust me the last..time there). and we could hear the loud music pouring into the restaurant from their pub nearby. Once we had settled down and were ready to place our order for drinks, i generally happened to ask the waiter out of curiosity "Is that a Pub or is that a Disc" ? and there came the reply "SIR STAG ENTRY IS NOT ALLOWED THERE". Damn!...what the crap!. That felt like a slap in the face as i was not carrying my character certificate(my girlfrend) with me. It took the waiter a second to realise that i had asked a simple question (of course he was prompted by the look i had on my face...the bugger could have wet his pants there and then) so he said after a few secs "Sir it is a Pub". But the slap was already sounding loud and resonating in my ears.

Being treated as a second grade citizen for not having a girlfriend in most clubs is enough of an insult already. What are stags like anyway?? Do they stink of characterlessness..you gotta have a nose better than a dog to smell that then. Or is it just written on their face "this guy is without a girl...so this guy should not be allowed a good time". For all you dumbasses out there who tag a stag as evil, beware guys..may be next time i see your girlfrend the only thing on my mind is to see her naked. For all you know, having committed the dark sin of being a stag might have given me the evil powers to actually do it. so i see your girlfrend naked..haha. Or is it your f***king insecurity dude? Cos i am a stag, i might have also acquired the power to hypnotise girls !...you never know...being a stag is like being the Satan's hand after all.

Having travelled around the world and seen different cultures and how all categories of singleness can coexist peacefully wasnt helping me at that time either. My rage was showing on my face. Now it was pointless to argue with that waiter so i just got up and walked to the door. One look was enuff for my frnds to get up and follow suit. They were feeling pretty bad themselves but then, stags are accustomed to such insults. We left that place silently and the waiter had his jaw touching his feet.

Now i know most of you would quote umpteen reasons for why stags are not allowed or should not be allowed at such places. They come in and they create nuisance...they misbehave...they spoil the fun..and all that. I am not saying that is not true...many guys do that ..i have seen that myself. And i am not questioning the right of club / pub owners to not allow stags inside their premises. Their shop, their rules. But figure this - do you think if i had a girlfrend my character would change? Of course you would say if one is with a girl one would behave at least for that time (as if girls are the best charactered ppl on the planet). may be you are right - you would behave yourself during that time. but then, many places do allow stags inside if they pay more...more for a single guy than you pay for a couple together. a very popular pub in lifestyle bldng does that...a very popular disc in one of the hotels on Rd no. 1 does that. probably if i spend more, i would not misbehave...but then if my objective is to misbehave..would my urge to derive value for money increase after paying more??

i have been on both sides of the fence at different times in my life. I dont think having a girl on my arm ever changed my character or values or the way i act...i am the way i am, girl or no girl.


argument is endless. in the end, pub owners do whatever helps their business better. we left that place and went to a family restaurant across the road. Needless to say, since 3 guys arrived in that restaurant and asked for a table for 6, they expected more guys and seated us in a corner ;-))...i dont know if they did that intentionally.

on a lighter note..if they keep us out of such places where the good looking girls are at, where the hell are we going to meet them and get out of our STAG status :))