I was for a while hanging around with some guys who were in their early 20s. Most of them were drug addicts and louts - my main interest in them was that they could always find drugs. (Sorry to be so honest. I was having a rough time then. It was right after my band broke up in 2002.) Some of these guys had lots of money to burn.
They LOVED going to H00ters but I doubt if H00ters loved them. They were such bad customers I would never go in anywhere with them, but wait in the car if possible.
One of the kids had borrowed his rich dad’s expensive car one night - I think it was a Mercedes. (I was not with them when this happened.) They went and stayed for several hours at H00ters, getting hella drunk one night. Drunk as lords, they piled into the Mercedes to start taking everybody home.
This H00ters was on Denver’s east side and they had to drive through ritzy neighborhood “Cherry Creek.” There’s a big shopping complex in Cherry Creek with a several-tier parking lot. It has a large ramp coming up off Cherry Creek Drive that looks like a highway on-ramp - I actually have driven up this thing a couple of times and was surprised to find myself in a parking lot instead of merging onto the highway.
Anyway, they’re blasting through this nice neighborhood late at night and kid driving the car sees this on-ramp-looking thingy and thinks he’ll hit the highway and make better time.
So he went flying up the ramp and smashed into several parked cars in the Safeway parking lot. No one was hurt, strangely enough, but the car was destroyed and so were several shoppers’ cars.
These guys ran the three or so miles back to H00ters, got a table, and started ordering drinks and snacks. (I’m sure the waitresses were thrilled to see them!)
So midnight rolls around and they’re like “Let’s go home” and they went out in the parking lot and then all dashed back into the restaurant (oh boy! here they are again!) saying their car had been stolen.
No, again - I was not there. I learned early on not to go anywhere with these guys. I just got to enjoy the story.
These guys - if they are still alive, of which I’m doubtful - are in their 40s now. That’s kinda funny to think about. I’m sure none of them is cute anymore if they’re still among the living.
Whenever someone mentions H00ters, this is what I always think about. And I feel kinda sorry for the gals who work there, although I’m sure they don’t really deserve or need my pity.
How did the totaled Mercedes and several Safeway customer’s cars story end up? Did the guys wind up going to jail for hit and run? Did they have to pay for the customer’s destroyed cars? What kind of band was it you were in?