"3 for 1 drinks" sums up the best and worst of a New Orleans trip. 3 for 1 means when no one is shy about buying a round. 3 for 1 means the whole bar is rocked with drunk party goers. 3 for 1 means when you go up to get a drink for yourself, they pour you a triple. In a city where everyone has just flown in for the weekend, 3 for 1 breaks down any barriers to making new instant friends for the next 20 minutes/hour/night.
The occasion was a New Orleans bachelor party weekend with a bunch of New Yorkers. I had gotten to know them through a close friend in Florida that convinced me to go to Vegas with him for their annual Super Bowl trip. After 4 years of repeated successful Vegas weekends of no sleep, total drunken debauchery, and stories that can never see the light of this blog, I was given the honor of joining the guys for 48 hours in New Orleans to commemorate the future marriage of Tommy, the Vegas ringleader.
The contrast of the underlying theme of a bachelor party versus a bachelorette party is hilarious. Women get together to ooh and aah over the ring, talk about the fairy tale wedding, congratulate the bride-to-be's good fortune, and plan scavenger hunts. The guys grimace about the bachelor "being done", the already married guys smirk at the new married guy club member and try to put their best face on the situation, and the single guys revel that they are not "done" yet.
As a proud owner of my man card still, I cannot violate its code of conduct and reveal the specifics of the weekend. I realize that my blog hits would go through the roof if I did, but you cannot sell your man card soul to make a little web traffic. Here are a few general bachelor party observations-
It's key to pick the right destination. New Orleans is surprisingly seedy. Bourbon street reeks of its own special miasma blend, part alcohol, part sweat, part puke, part unknown. This allows people to quickly discard any premonitions of classiness or proper manners. Bachelor parties are about drunk shenanigans, people making fools of themselves, too much drinking, at least a few people puking, and all social conduct getting thrown out the window. Bourbon street assures that you will do this after 5 or 6 trips to a 3 for 1 bar.
Another key bachelor party decision is the invite list. You need a motley crue mix to assure the entertainment and stories have variety. You don't want the uptight father-in-law at a strip club with you. The bachelor has to be able to trust that no one at the party will run their yap about the festivities. Now, this does not mean that the bachelor has anything to hide. But if the bachelor party invitees can observe the proper omerta (code of silence), then there will never be any gossip about "why there are no stories from the bachelor party?". This would be followed by female suspicion which inevitably leads to female anxiety, and then to the all-to-familiar female hysteria. You simply keep your mouth shut after all bachelor parties, even if all that happened was golf and baseball game, and then no one is the wiser.
One last key to bachelor party success is the itinerary. Keep it simple. Steaks and a game on friday, then out drinking and to clubs. Saturday everyone will be massively hungover - don't have a brunch at 11am. In fact, the only plan for saturday should be to surface at the pool by 4pm to recap the previous night's stories. The only other plan for saturday should be some sort of "entertainment". Otherwise, keep it loose. Friday we went to an all business steak joint. Nothing too fu-fu or fancy, just old school steaks, and our own room to watch the Red Sox humiliate the Yankees. Then we went out to bourbon street and got wrecked. Simple, efficient, fun, perfect. I spent saturday in the fetal position watching TNT movies until 3pm, then down to the hot tub to revel in the previous night. We all congregated at 8pm to help put some girls through college, and then after a quick bible reading, had a quick nightcap out on Bourbon street...yeah right!
Hats off to the best man Nelson for observing all of the bachelor party keys to success. I knew it was a good time because I could detect at least 3 points missing off of my IQ when I returned to Chicago.
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