08-01-2003, 02:31 PM
The gathering is no longer "official" in the eyes of DR management/ownership.
Thats right folks...not exactly official.
Here's the story:
When Ollie & I went to Donovans back in May, we spoke to MANAGEMENT. We told this particular person that we wanted to have a group of people come down to their establishment on such and such a date because we're all "fans of a radio show" and that "we like to get together every so often to just have a good time, talk about the show, yada yada yada". We didn't ask to put a banner up nor did we ever identify the show that we were all a fan of. Ollie & I felt that it would be best to not mention the show for fear of...something that happened anyway.
You see, some people out there decided to call Donovans and ask if Opie and Anthony were showing up. Also, a post ws made in their guestbook citing that a "huge gathering" in the name of the O&A show was happening. As much as management may not have cared...well, one of the Owners (by the name of "Ed") took notice and wasn't exactly happy.
There I was, on my way to the funeral of my friends' dad last friday when my phone rang.
It was Ed.
"I don't want you people coming here. I don't want Opie or Anthony here. If you come you will be wasting your time. Opie and Anthony are not going to be here, there is no official party for them here at all. I don't like what they stood for, I want nothing to do with them...."
"Sir....could I please ask you a question?"
(I wanted to see what "exactly" he was so worried about..I wanted to point out to him that we are all just fans of a particular radio show, that we weren't looking to have sex all over the place or cause any other types of problems his feeble mind must have conjured up)
so again..I asked Ed:
"Sir, I'd like to discuss this with you nice and rationally, could I ask you a question?"
"NO!"
*CLEEEEEEK*
Yup, that bastard hung up on me. I decided to just leave it that for the day as I was 20 minutes away from arriving at the funeral.
Now, a couple of days later, I called Donovans and left a message asking for an opportunity to speak with the owners. I called the following day and left ANOTHER message...I also called yesterday, hoping that I could fix this issue instead of posting this post right here, right now.
No one ever called me back.
So, you may be wondering: "Where the F does this leave all of us fans?"
We, in true O&A style / fashion, should just say "fuck it" and go anyways.
However, don't bring stickers or banners or yell out anything that points yourself out as being an O&A fan or you may be tossed. I say we make it a new game called "Trick Donovans Reef" where we see how long we can go without getting tossed; I'm looking forward to using show quotes around the bartenders and managers if present. I also look to paste a few WoW stickers around the joint. I don't give a fuck. Neither should the rest of the army.
We could play/hang from 3-7, break for dinner and then at 8pm, when the Tradewinds opens up their doors for the night, (2 doors down, literally) we could all go there. There's no cover charges for the Tradewinds from 8-10 pm. And sorry kids, it's 21 & over. Also, there's a pool & hottub that MAY be available for use. I'm looking into that and I will update this thread after finding out for sure.
I figure that after a few hours of sun and fun at Donovans, we all would probably desire a change of atmosphere at some point anyways.
So, what do y'all think? Still wanna get together, have some drinks & a
good time with fellow fans/friends? I hope so.
Thats right folks...not exactly official.
Here's the story:
When Ollie & I went to Donovans back in May, we spoke to MANAGEMENT. We told this particular person that we wanted to have a group of people come down to their establishment on such and such a date because we're all "fans of a radio show" and that "we like to get together every so often to just have a good time, talk about the show, yada yada yada". We didn't ask to put a banner up nor did we ever identify the show that we were all a fan of. Ollie & I felt that it would be best to not mention the show for fear of...something that happened anyway.
You see, some people out there decided to call Donovans and ask if Opie and Anthony were showing up. Also, a post ws made in their guestbook citing that a "huge gathering" in the name of the O&A show was happening. As much as management may not have cared...well, one of the Owners (by the name of "Ed") took notice and wasn't exactly happy.
There I was, on my way to the funeral of my friends' dad last friday when my phone rang.
It was Ed.
"I don't want you people coming here. I don't want Opie or Anthony here. If you come you will be wasting your time. Opie and Anthony are not going to be here, there is no official party for them here at all. I don't like what they stood for, I want nothing to do with them...."
"Sir....could I please ask you a question?"
(I wanted to see what "exactly" he was so worried about..I wanted to point out to him that we are all just fans of a particular radio show, that we weren't looking to have sex all over the place or cause any other types of problems his feeble mind must have conjured up)
so again..I asked Ed:
"Sir, I'd like to discuss this with you nice and rationally, could I ask you a question?"
"NO!"
*CLEEEEEEK*
Yup, that bastard hung up on me. I decided to just leave it that for the day as I was 20 minutes away from arriving at the funeral.
Now, a couple of days later, I called Donovans and left a message asking for an opportunity to speak with the owners. I called the following day and left ANOTHER message...I also called yesterday, hoping that I could fix this issue instead of posting this post right here, right now.
No one ever called me back.
So, you may be wondering: "Where the F does this leave all of us fans?"
We, in true O&A style / fashion, should just say "fuck it" and go anyways.
However, don't bring stickers or banners or yell out anything that points yourself out as being an O&A fan or you may be tossed. I say we make it a new game called "Trick Donovans Reef" where we see how long we can go without getting tossed; I'm looking forward to using show quotes around the bartenders and managers if present. I also look to paste a few WoW stickers around the joint. I don't give a fuck. Neither should the rest of the army.
We could play/hang from 3-7, break for dinner and then at 8pm, when the Tradewinds opens up their doors for the night, (2 doors down, literally) we could all go there. There's no cover charges for the Tradewinds from 8-10 pm. And sorry kids, it's 21 & over. Also, there's a pool & hottub that MAY be available for use. I'm looking into that and I will update this thread after finding out for sure.
I figure that after a few hours of sun and fun at Donovans, we all would probably desire a change of atmosphere at some point anyways.
So, what do y'all think? Still wanna get together, have some drinks & a
good time with fellow fans/friends? I hope so.