And next week....the Bearded Lady!!

So apparently I not only work at a music venue, I work at a freak show. But seriously...after last night's Bodybuilding.com fiasco, I am wondering who is next? The Siamese twins? The Blue Man? The Bearded Lady? Oh wait..she was there last night too. Ba-dum...ching! I think I might have made 4 or 5 bucks last night. Maybe. All I'm saying is...a "show" consisting of tables lining the room with all sorts of free goodies (energy powders, weight gainers, and t-shirts, oh my!), a bikini contest, couple dancers here and there, and of course Mr. Olympia ( who won some sort of bodybuilding contest I guess) doesn't exactly bring in the type of crowd that us servers want. Basically the two groups consisted of either bodybuilders or other gym rats aaand people who like free shit. One group doesn't want any beer, the other doesn't want to pay for anything, doesn't matter what or how cheap if it ain't free. Everyone in there (and the place got packed, more crowded than most shows) was jammed in lines around the merch tables. As more and more people came, they all just jammed around the perimeter of the venue, snatching their water bottles and Ultimate Nutrition Muscle Juice. As I saw one dude tear into his chocolate-y Optimum Protein Diet bar, I knew none of these people would want to buy any food or drinks, god forbid. Somehow this went on for four hours. The bikini contest was pretty entertaining. Sorry, no pics. I was working! "Working." Most of the girls looked pretty good, they weren't huge muscle freaks like the men. But there's something kind of scary looking about near-skeletal girls with huge perky tits and crazy 6-packs. Something kind of...nasty. As for the bodybuilding men...as expected they were huge with grotesque muscles that hindered their ability to walk. Heh. Sadly there was a memorial for one of the dudes that was there last year but not this year because he had a heart attack. At age 27. So my premonition that bodybuilding isn't really that great for you was confirmed. Needless to say...I find it strange and sad that that is what the people show up for around here...sure we don't get all the best bands in the country, but I'll take a bad, whiny band over an evening surrounded by meatheads any day.