“Two rabbis and two priests walk into…”

“Oh Gawd!”

“Not that one!”

“I heard that joke in middle school.”

 

The six ‘friends’ had picked a round table in the back of the bar. Once the waitress left their drinks, conversations sprung up at angles.

 

“Hey, is that an Irish car bomb?”

“Anyway, two guys walk…”

“Where have you been? I was looking for you last weekend.”

“Did you hear that this morning?”

“I usually drink tequila, but I just decided to stop one day.”

“I went to that new bar on 12th Street.”

“They were playing that new Flipmode last night.”

“I wanted to go to Peir 42, but the line was too long.”

“Is that with Spliff Star and all them cats?”

“This one bar actually poured the shot in with the drink.”

“Yeah, Rah Digga. Did you know her real name is Rasheda?”

“So I saw these two guys out behind the club.”

“There’s a place up on 5th that serves them cold. Have you ever seen anything like that?”

“I knew a girl with that name once. I think she moved in with her boyfriend.”

“When I got back there, they were done doing whatever they were doing and scattered off.”

“That place only deals with high price: High price drinks and high price ho’s.”

“What was her boyfriend’s name again?”

“Did you go and see what was up?”

“I could barely remember my name that night. I don’t know how I got home.”

“Where do you think they are now, I mean, is she still close?”

“I think it was Ali Quarshe, or something like that.”

“When I got home, I blew up my bathroom like the World Trade.”

“All I saw was a box when I got back there.”

 

Meanwhile, an elderly couple finished their mean and quickly left. Conversations continued and the waitress returned with more drinks, but the damage was already done.

15 minutes later, the police arrived, responding to an anonymous tip about somebody at the bar that threatened to blow it up with a box in the back. The call couldn’t give anymore information then that, but it was enough to ruin a lot of people’s evening.

Everyone was interrogated and eventually, Julio the dishwasher and Padma, training on her first day, got taken downtown.