My First Blonde Bash - By Mr F

[Mr F]

Sat in the bar of the Marriot Monday morning with one of the mods, and they ask me if I'm going to do one of my journalistic reports on the weekend.  Being as my journalistic skills stretch as far as writing weekly Table Tennis reports for the local paper I hadn't really thought about it so I said no.  But the mod asked me to, don't know whether they meant it or not but on the journey home I decided it would be a cool thing to do just to share my experience of the weekend.

I realised that I had so much to say that it would go on forever so I'm going to have to break it down into parts.

And I guess I ought to start at the beginning.... 

[Mr F]

Pre Bash

It all started at the November Cheesy game.  Heid asked me if I was going to the Blonde Bash and I told her I'd probably leave it.  I didn't feel I contributed much to the forum and I'd only be going to lose my money. 

Then I got a bit more involved and realised that it wasn't about the money, this was going to be more like loads of people meeting for the first time but also playing poker.  SO I kept up to date with the posts etc and eventually put my name down.  I planned to drive up from Wycombe spend some time at the bash get knocked out and drive back. 

A few weeks before the event and I found out The Woo had put her name down to come.  I've know her for a while so asked if she needed a lift and she suggested we share a room.  It seemed like a plan, I like to have the odd drink especially when meeting new people, it settles me down a bit, and this would work out quite well.

Then it all kicked off with a bout a week left. 

I went to the doctors who advised me to take some time off the booze as they thought I'd over indulged over Christmas and needed to give my body a rest.  It was only as I left that I realised this meant a non-boozey Bash.  Not good.

Then the Woo couldn't get the time off work but that was OK as Londonpokergirl was going to share with us, so it was back down to two.  I'd onlly met LPG once so wasn't sure how she'd feel about sharing a room with a virtual stranger who she'd only ever seen smashed(noticing a trend?)

Spoke to Mel and everything was fine. 

Get a text from LPG at 1:40 the morning of the bash.  "We need to book another room, I'm sharing with someone else but it's ok I've found someone for you to share with"  Ok no problem I think that's fine.

Book the room no problem everything seems fine.

Leave Wycombe half one, leaving the M42 onto the M6 and LPG calls again.  "Don't worry about your room mines massive we'll all fit in here and it's normal price!"

Bargain, cheap room. 

Get to the hotel sneak to the room which is awesome for a little travelled guy like myself, the Plasma screen was particularly attractive.  Meet PokerDave69 who seems to have the same sort of poker experience as me.  Excellent.

Mel asks if I want a drink I say I can't doctors advice.  She tells me to sod the doctor start drinking, so I'm on the Vodka Redbull. 

Dave suggests a trip to the bar, I'd heard Heid was down there and I wanted to see her again so I was up for it. 

We left the room and made our way downstairs.

Little did I know what the night had a head for me....

[yt]

she suggested we share a room.  It seemed like a plan

I bet it did!

[snoopy1239]

Pre Bash

I like to have the odd drink especially when meeting new people

odd drink?! 

[matt674]

Pre Bash

I like to have the odd drink especially when meeting new people

odd drink?! 

23, 25, 27.......................

odd drink!!

[Poppet7]

LMAO! When's the next chapter?! This is funny!

[Mr F]

My apologies, finding the time to write it between cubs, pool team and firends wanting to catch up is not easy.  Especially as I spent an hour typing one bit up and the story hadn't even reached me leaving the bar before the tourney!!  Realised it was too long so scrapped it!!  Was hoping it would fade away and no-one would notice but being as Poppets the second person to ask I better pull my finger out!!

It will come and I hope you enjoy it.

[Mr F]

Got in the bar to find no-one there so we sat down anyway and got a round in.  £15.45 for three drinks!!! Jaysus!!!!!!!!!!!  Me and Dave looked at each other trying to figure out how much Mels double vodka and red bull (the first of many) cost.  £9!!  For one drink.  Nightmare.

Sat there for a wahile when a guy walks in saying he heard talk of A K from the corridor and knew he'd found his first Blondeites.  And that was how we met Indestructable.  A very cold Cupcake then made his entrance.  Having ridden all the way up from London all the poor lad wanted was a hot drink!  Each new person to the bar was greeted with a "Are you a Blondeite?" from Mel which got her some very strange looks.  There may have been one or two more Blondes come in but if there was my memry does not recall their names. 

Chubbs and the Yongsta make their Entrance.
The gentle hum of conversation was broken by two very loud Northern Accents and I turn to see two complete strangers walk in that everyone else knew.  "SIMON!!!!" was all I could hear as Mel saw them both come in.  I quickly realised this was Simon Nowab and Rob Yong.  I do tend to get a bit starstruck and recognised Simon as a "name" and Rob as someone who's posts I had read with great interest on the forum.  THings carried on and to be honest I was a little put off by Simon.  There was plenty of banter flying and I felt that he was directing some of it at me unecessarily.  I realised I was wrong when Flushy walked in, it was clear most people knew him and Chubbs redirected  things towards him, much to my relief.  It was a few minutes later and I must have said something as SImon told me he was only messing around and to ignore him.  That meant a lot to me and immediately put me back at ease.

I then got a few drinks in a misinterpreted Robs request for a Vodka Slimline tonic into a Vodka Lemon and Lime which he preceeded to spit out.  Jen and her mum then walked in and we made our way (late) to  the casino....

[Scottish Dave]

 

Chubbs and the Yongsta make their Entrance.
The gentle hum of conversation was broken by two very loud Northern Accents and I turn to see two complete strangers walk in that everyone else knew.  "SIMON!!!!" was all I could hear as Mel saw them both come in.  I quickly realised this was Simon Nowab and Rob Yong.  I do tend to get a bit starstruck and recognised Simon as a "name" and Rob as someone who's posts I had read with great interest on the forum.  THings carried on and to be honest I was a little put off by Simon.  There was plenty of banter flying and I felt that he was directing some of it at me unecessarily.  I realised I was wrong when Flushy walked in, it was clear most people knew him and Chubbs redirected  things towards him, much to my relief.  It was a few minutes later and I must have said something as SImon told me he was only messing around and to ignore him.  That meant a lot to me and immediately put me back at ease.

i wouldnt worry about him, when we hit the Clubs in brumm after the casino, he gave me dogs abuse all night....wait...maybe he was trying to tell me something!

[Indestructable]

Superb posts Mr F, my memory is going  and good to have someone to remind us of events over the weekend. With a memory like that you can be in my quiz team next time around!

[Mr F]

Got to the casino and registerd.  My first memory is of the girl on reception getting the bloke next to me to move his scarf down, he kept moving it but she kept asking, very strange I thought.  Hear a shout of "Bracken" from my left which can only mean one thing.  My mates from Scouts went through a period of calling me this when I was fourteen so I knew it must be Heid.  Got through the gate and got a massive hug which Heid is very good at.  Was good to see a friendly face straight away. 

Still a bag of nerves went over to the bar and got a drink had a fag and it was pretty much time for the comp.  Took my place on table eleven before most.  Had Rooky9 to my right and the guy with the scarf sat down to my left he turned out to be DaMatrix.  My apologies now to the guys next to him as I kept shifting my rather sizeable backside out from the table and getting them to move closer to the table.  Came back just in time for the start and noticed that Blonde Legend Mr Red Dog was also at the table.  As has been said beffore by both Rooky9 and Damatrix, the table was very tight to start.  To be honest I was more interested in trying to see what the tattoo was on the dealers right (insert prefered euphemism for breast here.  I'm too polite to call it a Charmaine as has been suggested in other posts!) First thing I noticed was the cheers as Tikay exited stage right.  It wasn't too long before the table was broken, at this point my memory becomes a little blurred, I'm not too sure why but I'm sure if you ask Snoops or No Flops they'll fill you.  I moved onto the new table to find Poker Dave69 LPG Rooky9 again and the ever-quiet Rob Yong...

My lunch hour is over now so more later, I hope to have the whole thing finished by the weekend cos I know it's dragging on, so my apologies.

[SKIPPYSKIP]

Keep going Mr F so far so good

[Poppet7]

Its still making me L.O.L so keep it up!!

[londonpokergirl]

yep come on fearnybaby

[snoopy1239]

No need to apologise.