Bar Hopping

When you live in a small town where the population is approximately 5,000 there tends to be limited after hour activities made available to the community. Once in awhile, they will have movies at the square downtown, First Friday art walks, or festivals of some type but those types of events occur every so often. The only other options the people have are bowling, movies at Harkins, or bar hopping.

This weekend a few friends and I decided that it would be great to kick back, relax, and go out dancing. We are in our finals week so we didn't feel the pressure of having to complete assignments or take quizzes online by a certain deadline. We figured that going out dancing would be a great way for us to relieve any stress. The dancing was great. The music ranged from salsa, to classic 80s, to your typical R&B. HOWEVER, there are certain things that you have to be aware of when you're out and about in a small college town:

1.  Long lines, especially when drink specials are available

2.  Making sure your belongings are secure

3.  Creepy people at the bar

From my experience, these are the top three things that you should be aware of. In order to overcome these barriers you need to :

1. Get to bars earlier than 10:00pm

2. Wear clothing with lots of pockets or have a man with nice deep pockets to go out with you so he can carry your stuff till the end of the night

3. I'm not sure how to deal with this factor...wear ugly clothes perhaps? Smell awful to keep them away?
    One thing's for sure at least have good friends go out with you so they can:

    A. Act as your lesbian lover or
    B. Pose as your boyfriend at the bars.

The bar was filled with men that assume it's okay to come up behind you and start grinding on you because you're dancing with your girl friends. No! That's so disrespectful. Be a gentleman and ask a girl to dance. That would be the decent thing to do. Oh and word of advice, if a girl says "no" the first time, she's definitely going to say "hell no" the second time.