"Five drinks for everybody!" All the other Indians rushed the bar, but I sat with the mathematician and her skinny friend.
My visits to the Big Apple have always amounted to a frantic rush between bars and shops and taxi cabs, all in the bit of Manhattan between Central Park and SoHo.
Night after Friday night, he'd ask about my week, make jokes with me during lulls in the bar rush, and never charge me for my vodka buzz.
The high jump features a host of tall, skinny athletes who rush at the bar and karate kick themselves over.
In the lull before the after-opera bar rush, the staff eats pasta concocted out of whatever didn't sell at dinner.
In the best of the evening, titled "Right Sensation," a woman and a man who met in a bar rush into the woman's apartment, slightly inebriated and ready to fall into bed until the woman suddenly balks.
The mad rush to the bar that once started receptions, sometimes evoking Wal-Mart on the morning after Thanksgiving, is being steadily replaced by something tamer: a server bearing a tray of pre-selected cocktails, greeting arriving guests.
SAN FRANCISCO — Since the height of the Gold Rush, the San Francisco Bar Pilots have been guiding large vessels from the Pacific in and out of the harbors here and further inland, knowing as only they did the vagaries of the bay's currents, its hidden shoals and every foggy channel's twist and turn.
Dairy Queen chicken strips with ranch, fries, Arctic Rush and Dilly Bar: 1,030 calories (photo: dave_mcmt/Flickr Creative Commons).
Be sure to let them know drinks will be served on their wedding party schedules and some will show up early to beat the rush to the bar.
My friend, in the throws a Thursday night cinq-a-sept bar rush, looked embarrassed but was too busy to talk to me.
