Escape from Bizarroworld
Dec. 15th, 2012 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhionnachIt was work Xmas night out. The decision had been taken to hold it in a casino. Not my choice of venue, I thought it would be a tacky venue and a big mistake. In my opinion it was.
It didn't start well when I entered the building and was directed to the wrong place by a guy who didn't appear to listen to what I was saying. Then I found where I should be and then discovered that the cloakroom was all the way back downstairs to the reception area where Mr Cloth Ears was.
The meal was quite nice although the casino had scored nil points by not being able to give a vegetarian option back in February when we were being asked to decide on a venue. Come on, it's 2012, vegetarians are not exactly uncommon, so why was it such a big deal to tell us what could be offered? I was eventually told a couple of weeks back that it was a choice of aubergine and something cannelloni or ratatouille. I figured the cannelloni would be better than a heap of chopped veg in a tomato sauce (that's an accompaniment, not a main meal!) and so I got cannelloni. It was nice. It came with goat's cheese so that was OK.
Being in the room with workmates was fine, and if that had continued to be the case it would have been fine. But we had to go out into the casino for the bar or to find the toilets, not to mention the stupid gaming tables. The casino was quite simply Bizarroworld, it was a culture shock. It seemed to be filled with sad losers,no hopers, and desperate singles gathered to throw away money at various weird games or to dance to a karaoke-level singer in an odd dance area tacked onto the bar.
Unfortunately the ceilidh band we had wasn't very good and the room wasn't really big enough for a proper dance area so a lot of people went out to Bizarroworld. I don't think that was very good as it split the group and the night lost focus. We would have been better to have gone back to the Piping Centre where we were last year. I enjoyed it, and it was the venue I voted for. I certainly didn't want to go to a shit venue like the casino and that's why I'm now home having left about 11.00 pm as I had had enough instead of continuing on till 2.00 am as had been planned.
It didn't start well when I entered the building and was directed to the wrong place by a guy who didn't appear to listen to what I was saying. Then I found where I should be and then discovered that the cloakroom was all the way back downstairs to the reception area where Mr Cloth Ears was.
The meal was quite nice although the casino had scored nil points by not being able to give a vegetarian option back in February when we were being asked to decide on a venue. Come on, it's 2012, vegetarians are not exactly uncommon, so why was it such a big deal to tell us what could be offered? I was eventually told a couple of weeks back that it was a choice of aubergine and something cannelloni or ratatouille. I figured the cannelloni would be better than a heap of chopped veg in a tomato sauce (that's an accompaniment, not a main meal!) and so I got cannelloni. It was nice. It came with goat's cheese so that was OK.
Being in the room with workmates was fine, and if that had continued to be the case it would have been fine. But we had to go out into the casino for the bar or to find the toilets, not to mention the stupid gaming tables. The casino was quite simply Bizarroworld, it was a culture shock. It seemed to be filled with sad losers,no hopers, and desperate singles gathered to throw away money at various weird games or to dance to a karaoke-level singer in an odd dance area tacked onto the bar.
Unfortunately the ceilidh band we had wasn't very good and the room wasn't really big enough for a proper dance area so a lot of people went out to Bizarroworld. I don't think that was very good as it split the group and the night lost focus. We would have been better to have gone back to the Piping Centre where we were last year. I enjoyed it, and it was the venue I voted for. I certainly didn't want to go to a shit venue like the casino and that's why I'm now home having left about 11.00 pm as I had had enough instead of continuing on till 2.00 am as had been planned.