TheBilcourt: Saturday night at Mad Donnas

Saturday night at Mad Donnas

Ok, let me preface all of this by saying I have NOTHING against gay people at all. I don't care how people live. Its their business. So the story I am about to tell you is mainly based on surprise and not realizing the environment I was going into.

So Saturday afternoon, I called Josh to see if he and Jesse had any plans for Saturday night. They told me that a girl we went to high school with was having a birthday party at a bar in east Nashville. I've met the girl a few times but I don't know her like Josh and Jesse do. I still thought it would be fun to tag along.

Around 8:45, Josh, Jesse, his brother Jordan, and myself headed out to the bar. We stopped along the way to get some flowers for the birthday girl and then headed downtown. We got down there to the four points area and it was a place across from another bar called "The Lipstick Lounge"o...k......

We walk in and there is a restaurant downstairs and a bar upstairs. We walked up the stairs and I immediately noticed a DJ/VJ(they had tvs with videos playing) wearing a sequined pair of headphones along with some late 30's bald guy doing a backflip on their little dance floor. o....k......

The other thing I immediately notice is that most people are dressed in fairly nice clothes. I was wearing a pair of khaki pants, a button up shirt from Old Navy, and a baseball cap. It was probably in my mind but I felt out of place kind of. Granted we were all wearing casual clothes. Nothing really nice like some of the people there. Well, Jesse looked better than the other three of us. lol o....k.....

We made our way up to the bar, which was fairly crowded, and began to wait to order. At the bar, there were quite a few attractive women there. Kind of reminded me of Sex in the City or something, even though I've never seen the show. They did have guys with them and I thought nothing really more of it. Just guys and girls at a local bar. After Josh ordered, I took the drink menu they had and began to look it over to see what they offered. They had the usual beer and wine. On the other side of the menu they had all sorts of different martinis and margaritas. I finally got the bartenders attention and ordered a Yeungling. While I was waiting, I began to look over the drink menu again. They had drinks called "Lindsay Blowhan", "Britneytini", "Whitneytini", and "Chertini". I was thinking, "thats odd". About this time I look up and notice quite of few gay and lesbian looking people walking in and standing around. The bartender brought my Yeungling over and said, "Here ya go. Thhhanks!" o....k.....

I took my beer and walked back over to Josh, Jesse, and Jordan. About this time, the D/VJ began playing Flashdance. o....k.....

As I drank my beer and chatted, I noticed more and more gay and lesbians coming in. The D/VJ started playing some remix of Madonna's "Music" and "Disco Inferno" o....k.....

About this time, I'm starting to put things together. It wasn't until we went back to the bar to order another beer and I noticed a transvestite standing in between Jordan and Jesse. The D/VJ began playing Cher's "Believe" song and I realized that we were definitely in a gay bar. I think I kind of eyeballed the others to look at the transvestite and we all kind of just smiled and laughed. I remember thinking once again o...k..... I started texting my friend and sister about all of this. lol I also around this time realized this bar was called "Mad Donnas" That probably should have given it away had we noticed.

Again the bartender came over and I ordered a big glass of Yazoo Dos Perros much to the surprise I think of Josh. I'm the guy that never really drinks and I never get drunk in front of people. So for me to have finished a Yeungling and attempt to drink another big glass of beer, probably surprised them. I remember at some point standing there that Josh and I saw the transvestite talking to Jesse. Josh wondered if he should go and save her, lol.
After I got my beer, we found an empty table which happened to be positioned directly beside the dance floor area. As we sat there, people began dancing to the music, I think Janet Jackson. We sat and talked. After a little while, I definitely noticed that this beer was starting to make me feel tipsy. I guess because I don't drink much, a bottle and a big glass of beer is plenty for me to get to the first stage of drunkeness. I was still fine, but I was certainly feeling dazed sort of.

I started to feel like I had to go to the bathroom. I had drank about 4 bottles of water throughout the day at work in addition to beer. I went to find the bathroom and there were two doors. One door was labled "Donnas" and the other labled "Dons". The Dons door was cracked open and seeing how I had never been here before, I didn't know how big the bathroom was. So I opened the door and took a step in. As quickly as I took a step in, I took a step back out. It was a very small bathroom with a toilet and sink. There was also a guy peeing. When I had opened the door and turned around I just said, "Oh, hello!" I closed the door and just waited outside pretending nothing had happened. The guy came out, I went in and did my thing(locking the door) and then went back to the table. Naturally, they laughed at me for what had happened.

We sat there again and after a while, I think we all just kind of realized it was time to go. I walked up the bar and closed my tab. I decided to take one final trip to the bathroom before the car ride back. I went, stood in line, and waited. My turn came and I went into the bathroom. This time once again, I made sure the door was closed all of the way and I turned the knob to lock the door. I began to go and after about five seconds the bathroom door swings open and some gay man just barges in. My fuzzy mind caused me to just say aloud, "Oh god!" The guy just said, "Sorry, hon!" and he walked back out. Something tells me he wasn't as embarrassed as I was. Anyways, I quickly washed my hands and walked out. I immediately went up to Josh and Jesse and told them what had happened. Naturally they laughed. I told them I was definitely ready to go whenever, lol. They all said their goodbyes and we walked downstairs and left. By the time we left, the bar was clearly 80-85 percent gay and lesbian people. We walked down the street to the car. It completely made sense to me now why it was beside a bar called "The Lipstick Lounge". I remember on the way back just laughing at how awkward everything was.

It was definitely a night I won't forget.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 07, 2008 at 4:20 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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5 Comments:

At 12:15 AM, Jesse E. Hunter said...: She should've given us a little notice. Thanks for coming out with us, though...and for having a couple of beers! :)
At 5:43 PM, Anonymous said...: Hey saw your comment and as I do see where you might get the impression that it is gay let me assure that it is not. It is Gay friendly however and is a good reflection of the neighborhood. You should really give it another shot as the restaurant is really good with great food and even better service. So please go by there and try out the restaurant. I was also there on Saturday night but downstairs and may I say that there were plenty of families with kids all around us. Hope to see you there!!
At 2:19 AM, Billy H. said...: I hope you don't think I was bashing anyone or anything. That totally wasn't my intention. I have absolutely nothing against Mad Donnas or the people that go there. Nothing at all whatsoever. I try and not judge people for the way they live. It was just a funny experience because we had no clue about the place and I've never been in an environment like that. I would totally go and eat at the restaurant sometime if the opportunity arose.
At 8:37 AM, Jesse E. Hunter said...: We were speaking with a couple of friends the other night and it dawned on us that a bar is a bar is a bar in some ways. Mad Donna's upstairs is a bar, and like many bar environments, people are out to meet other people, and are trying to look their best, be out-going and have fun. We're not used to ANY bar scene, so I think that might've contributed to the weirdness too. The restaurant does look nice. I'm more of a coffee-house kind of girl, rather than a night-time club/bar. You know?
At 1:07 AM, scott said...: it's tough being somewhere that's really out of your element- I tend to just find a way to leave whenever I start to feel really awkward in social situations- so hats off to you for sticking with it and being a good sport-

Saturday night at Mad Donnas

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