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Bike Week Dairy, Part 2

Posted by abohan Selasa, 26 Juni 2012 0 komentar

By the end of the first week - before the Big Weekend even starts - it's apparent what kind of Bike Week this is... The weather has made everyone happy, and if the crowds are thinner the joy is every bit as big as ever.

On Tuesday, a rock/blues group named Grace Curran & the High Falutin Band has the small crowd at the restaurant jumping. But it's a rainy day that produces a dispute among the owners.

"Open the front bar," says one.

"Don't open the front bar," contradicts another, who is concerned that the crowds won't hear about the band if they see they'd have no cover from the rain in the front area. And some folks do start trickling in, responding to cell phone calls from friends who are already in the audience.

A young man stops by the host's station with his Bike Week complaint. "Where are all the young chicks?" he wants to know.

Well, the baby-boomers who've revived the event in recent years are getting older...

Meanwhile, this observation: Two kinds of women wear bikini tops - those who are too young, and those who are too old.

The Harley-Davidson T-shirt parade continues: St. Thomas, the Grand Cayman Islands, Tripps Harley-Davidson in Amarillo, Texas, and Chunky River Harley-Davidson in Meridian, Mississippi.

The napkin holders have color-coded cards to help identify the waitresses' sections. Some one has affixed a sticker to one: "Jesus Loves Bikers."

(He'd better.)

As the night gets later, the folks who came for just a drink eventually grab a table and order some food from the nearest waitress - which creates havoc and some hard feelings. ("She stole my table!" "What am I supposed to do? He wanted to order!")

There are a good number of bikers from Maine and Quebec. The Canadians - and Europeans - are more style-conscious than the Americans and dress neater.

One day a group of Norwegians arrive. "You drove here?" asks a map-challenged older guy. (Hard to tell if he's kidding or not.)

Among it all, some romance grows - kinda.

One staff member shows off her engagement ring to the rest of the women. It's big, so they all oooh and aaah.

"But my boyfriend says it's not big enough," she blurts out. "He wants to buy me a bigger one."

"He's stalling," says the only guy in the group.

"I'm a matchmaker," beams a young waitress from Bulgaria. She's just served a woman a drink that a man on the other side of the room paid for.

And as most couples come in, it's the guy trailing behind his gal... a loving but bemused smile on his face that says, "Where is she leading me now?"
Right into the heart of the 89th Laconia Motorcycle Week, 2012, my friend.

See ya next year.

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Judul: Bike Week Dairy, Part 2
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