About a decade ago, we were celebrating the birthday of one of D' Frendz and decided to go to the small videoke joint within the defunct SM Megmall Bowling Alley. We got one of the rooms in the far ends of the place and started singing.
After a few hours of singing, we wanted to order drinks so I went out to look for the wait staff. To my surprise, we were the only people in the place, and all the wait staff were in their sandos and slippers and was in the middle of cleaning up.
It turned out that the place was already closed, and no one noticed we were still there. (Yes, our room was in the far, far end of the joint.) When they realized that there were still customers, they hurriedly changed back to their uniforms, then rang up our bill, then kicked us out.
Needless to say, we looked for another singing place and ended up videoke-ing until 5am.
Tonight, we celebrated Lezyl's "life begins" party at Yakimix at the Podium. As usual, the group was noisy and the table was filled with chatter. Everyone was engrossed with the conversations at hand, including Bonique's pregnancy, Lucas' shenanigans, Rick's weight loss, Tintin's operation, Lezyl's tea store and my recent Tokyo trip.
A few moments later, we looked around and realized that the tables around us were all empty, and all the seats were stacked up. The wait staff were already cleaning the tables and mopping the floors, and we realized that they were almost closed! In fact, we were the only table in our area!
Good thing there was still two tables occupied, which meant we weren't repeating the "videoke in the bowling alley" fiasco. And what did we do when we realized that there were still other people in Yakimix? We got dessert again and resumed the storytelling.
That was until we were told that their store was indeed closed.
Such is the life of closers such as D' Frendz.
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