My experience at the West Portal Tavern
During my stay in San Francisco I dropped by the West Portal Tavern on several occasions. Upon first arriving, it was determined that that was to be my first taste of the nightlife. As we began walking there, I was told "You're gonna fucking love it man, its a dive and the bartender talks like a fucking pirate." This did seem like something I would enjoy.
Upon arriving and broaching the large heavy wood door, I took stock of the place. Round wooden bar in front surrounded by stools, darts and some extra seating towards the pissers in the back. As we entered, a group of middle aged women cheered "wooo the boys are here!" And Don greeted us with a "Hows it going guys?"
He did indeed sound similar to a pirate. I was pleased. The bar only had about 4 beers on tap, one of which happened to be Stella to my delight. What I was to drink this night however wasn't up to me. Don had recently turned the crew onto a whiskey drink called an "Old Fashioned" which included whisking sugar around in the shotglass.
The drink was serviceable, something I would potentially order some other time based purely on the novelty. The bar was full of mainly middle aged working class type folks enjoying a friday night. We continued drinking Old Fashioneds until it was almost close. Don was incredibly hospitable and was a charismatic motherfucker. He told us about a St. Pats thing they were doing, complete with free food and the prospect of REAL soda bread.
Overall Don was an awesome dude, but I want to focus more on two fellas who helped pass an evening in the Portal with Will and I.
One was Jolly Beard PHD in Beards and Politics, his cohort was ANGRY IRISH GUY. I had already heard about AIG and how he hated spreet and always called him gay. Seemed like I might get along with this type of guy, and you can't really blame him for thinking spreets gay, its a common mistake it seems.
Me and Will sat at the bar, with me sitting next to JB and AIG sitting on JB's other side. Eventually something sparked a conversation between me and JB about Obama and the whole deal with his insane preacher's comments. After talking with him for a couple minutes and having a pretty enjoyable, yet leisurely political repartee, we were suddenly interrupted by AIG.
"QUIT TALKING ABOUT THAT SHIT IS SO FUUCKIN BORING YA FUCKING IDIOTS."
JB chuckled and we continued our conversation. AIG then began to attempt to enlist Will's aide.
"HEY WHY THEY TALKING BOUT SUCH STUPID SHIT WHO GIVES A FUCK YA KNOW"
Will sort of agreed with him, and soon AIG had gotten up and moved to sit next to Will. From this point on there were two parallel discussions. Me and JB talking about politics, and AIG ranting about how boring we were and how much of a cocksucker I was.
Every once in a while the two conversations would cross paths just quickly enough for AIG to inform me that I loved sucking cock or getting fucked in the ass.
Apparently he doesn't just hate spreet and call spreet a homo. I was shocked. Normally he is the type of guy who loves me, like the original Crazy Guy. But somehow, he fucking hated me. After having time to digest these events, I have formulated a hypothesis. AIG is either gay, or incredibly hostile towards anyone he considers some form of threat. He might view spreet as a threat because he dresses well, is young, and could easily fuck most of the hags there. I would be a threat because he recognizes me as a younger, sexier and more charismatic version of himself.
His way of dealing with this is to claim we both suck cock. I know I don't. Jury is still out on Spreet.
One other thing of mention about Don's place, is the pissers. The urinals are filled with ice which gives the user the fabulous feeling of melting the ice with your piss as you unburden your strained bladder.
Upon arriving and broaching the large heavy wood door, I took stock of the place. Round wooden bar in front surrounded by stools, darts and some extra seating towards the pissers in the back. As we entered, a group of middle aged women cheered "wooo the boys are here!" And Don greeted us with a "Hows it going guys?"
He did indeed sound similar to a pirate. I was pleased. The bar only had about 4 beers on tap, one of which happened to be Stella to my delight. What I was to drink this night however wasn't up to me. Don had recently turned the crew onto a whiskey drink called an "Old Fashioned" which included whisking sugar around in the shotglass.
The drink was serviceable, something I would potentially order some other time based purely on the novelty. The bar was full of mainly middle aged working class type folks enjoying a friday night. We continued drinking Old Fashioneds until it was almost close. Don was incredibly hospitable and was a charismatic motherfucker. He told us about a St. Pats thing they were doing, complete with free food and the prospect of REAL soda bread.
Overall Don was an awesome dude, but I want to focus more on two fellas who helped pass an evening in the Portal with Will and I.
One was Jolly Beard PHD in Beards and Politics, his cohort was ANGRY IRISH GUY. I had already heard about AIG and how he hated spreet and always called him gay. Seemed like I might get along with this type of guy, and you can't really blame him for thinking spreets gay, its a common mistake it seems.
Me and Will sat at the bar, with me sitting next to JB and AIG sitting on JB's other side. Eventually something sparked a conversation between me and JB about Obama and the whole deal with his insane preacher's comments. After talking with him for a couple minutes and having a pretty enjoyable, yet leisurely political repartee, we were suddenly interrupted by AIG.
"QUIT TALKING ABOUT THAT SHIT IS SO FUUCKIN BORING YA FUCKING IDIOTS."
JB chuckled and we continued our conversation. AIG then began to attempt to enlist Will's aide.
"HEY WHY THEY TALKING BOUT SUCH STUPID SHIT WHO GIVES A FUCK YA KNOW"
Will sort of agreed with him, and soon AIG had gotten up and moved to sit next to Will. From this point on there were two parallel discussions. Me and JB talking about politics, and AIG ranting about how boring we were and how much of a cocksucker I was.
Every once in a while the two conversations would cross paths just quickly enough for AIG to inform me that I loved sucking cock or getting fucked in the ass.
Apparently he doesn't just hate spreet and call spreet a homo. I was shocked. Normally he is the type of guy who loves me, like the original Crazy Guy. But somehow, he fucking hated me. After having time to digest these events, I have formulated a hypothesis. AIG is either gay, or incredibly hostile towards anyone he considers some form of threat. He might view spreet as a threat because he dresses well, is young, and could easily fuck most of the hags there. I would be a threat because he recognizes me as a younger, sexier and more charismatic version of himself.
His way of dealing with this is to claim we both suck cock. I know I don't. Jury is still out on Spreet.
One other thing of mention about Don's place, is the pissers. The urinals are filled with ice which gives the user the fabulous feeling of melting the ice with your piss as you unburden your strained bladder.
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