Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

If there's one thing I like about this site more than any other it is the people. I've often thought, "Gee, I like that person. They sound like someone I'd like to go have a drink with sometime." But how can that be?

I think I've found the perfect place that everyone can get to. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I liked the place so much I bought it and moved it here. Sure the place needs cleaned up a bit, I need to hire a good staff, the menu needs revamped, and Lord knows I should probably change the motto and or name. But it is a good start. I thought about calling this place The Bitchin' Post but wanted it to be more than just a place to vent. It is that, but I'm hoping for more.

So belly up to the bar and have a chat. I can bring you something to the patio if you like. Leave your worries at the door. Or if something is bothering you, bring 'em along and share. Sometimes just talking it out with a sympathetic ear helps. Need a target to vent? I'm sure I can find one if I look in the mirror. Want to talk about something in more than three or four words at a time? I think this is the place. Want help with something? Together we might come up with a solution.

So come in and welcome! What will it be?

I need help.

What can I do for you Sej?

Hey, bartender, free drinks for the first five member who post, courtesy of the house. : )

Just put it on our tab. I think Rossy will pick it up. *grins*

It's opening day. Free drinks for everyone!

Diet Pepsi with a twist of lemon please. I'd drink, but I get severe migraines, yeah, ain't that a bitch? Took me two days to recoup from the ice wine incident. So, you can count me in to be the bar's designated driver, okay?

Can I get you anything Sej while you think about what you need? A beverage? Something to eat? Whatever it is that you need help with, we'll find a solution for you.


Yz, what can I get you?

Just "help" like Leeloo from the Fifth Element. The part where she was fighting awesomely and crazily with those ugly things and then the crazy guy came in with a gun and started shooting at her and then she had to jump on a piano and then do a weird flip and into a vent that was conveniently there and then the crazy guy got the crazy idea to shoot at the vent and it magically hit all around her and she didn't get one bullet. It's kinda like the magic shows where the guy is blindfolded and he throws knives around a person against a huge board. I always wondered if the blindfold was thin enough that they could see through. I mean you could try pretending to poke them in the eye but if you did it for real you would actually know if he can see or not right? So yeah - help.

I'd like a mojito with a fresh lemon and mint leaves just picked from their plants.

So the local law enforcement community already warned me about fights. If you're planning on fighting a bunch of aliens with lots of gunfire just let me know now. I'm with you 100% and willing to kick a little alien ass for you. But I'd like to know if I should bother putting out help wanted ads if I'm gonna be closed down after the first day.

A bar brawl already? On the first day? Jim, did you make sure you got insurance for this place?

Photojim wrote:

Yz, what can I get you?"

I rarely drink, but a frosty strawberry margarita sounds good right now.

Can I interview the applicants for bouncer? Y'know, just to make sure their muscles are big enough?

In that case I'd like some mocha frap to go with my mojito. I may want to be awake and buzzed at the same time so I can hightail it out of here asap. If you could make it the way they do at Starbucks that would be great. If not then could you please drive to Starbucks and get me one? It is very important that I do not fall asleep.

Of course it's insured. It's a requirement to run a business.

Sej - Bacardi White, over the muddled mint/lime/sugar. Add in the club soda and here you go my dear.

Lime? I said lemon. Freshly picked.

Strawberry margarita with sugar on the rim and garnished with a fresh strawberry.

One mocha frap coming right up.

I was thinking of hiring somebody for bouncer. Says her name is Xhexina? We'll see when she comes in for the interview.

Her name is Xhexinia. She hasn't started and you have gotten her name wrong already.

Would you guys just call her Xhex? I think she prefers it that way.

Sej wrote: "Lime? I said lemon. Freshly picked."

Why don't you enjoy this mojito on the house and then I will happily make you whatever drink you would like. We can even call your lemon drink a sej-mojito if you'd like. But let's leave the mojito to being a mojito.

Sure we can do that or we can file a complaint against you with the BBB.

Dang! Tough crowd. Well, while you n's are squabbling over drinks I'm going to peruse the meat section.

Whatever the name, I just think it sounds pretty damn 'Xhexy'. But I doubt I'll hire her anyway. If I hired a woman and gave her the title of 'Bouncer' I'd be labeled as sexist. Another guy, Dalton, also put his app in. Said he used to work at some roadhouse up the way.

I'm just not convinced we need extra security.

Photojim wrote: I'm just not convinced we need extra security. "

Sej haven't even started with her mojito, and she is already getting mean.

So you might want to think about that extra security.

While you are looking over the meat market KimK, can I get you anything? I heard through the grapevine that there was a lawyer whose ass you were looking to kick today. Care to tell us about it?


The BBB Sej? I'm 'virtually' assured of being fully vindicated.

Yz the Whyz wrote: "Photojim wrote: I'm just not convinced we need extra security. "

Sej haven't even started with her mojito, and she is already getting mean.

So you might want to think about that extra security."

Point taken.

Mean me? I'm a sweetheart. As a sweetheart I will let this one go and drink the mojito on the condition that I'll get a Lemon Mojito next time.

Speaking of lawyers, why are some of them unemotional selfcentered pricks???

Sweetheart huh? Sure. *cough* If you say so sweetheart.

*slices lemons for the LEMON MOJITO (a bastardized version of the classic drink if ever there was one)*

You know what they call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

What do you get when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand? More sand.


But seriously, most lawyers have had to go through more school than most other professions. Then they feel as though they've had the extra classes and training on arguing that they are better than you, they believe it. They whatever achieves their own goals is what they go for. Selfish bastards. *shakes fist in solidarity*

Hey, don't forget my DP w/lemon order above or I might just have to sic Sej on ya. Oh yeah, I can vouch for Dalton, he was my dance teacher years ago when I was vacationing with my parents at the lake. Good times. Good times.

I'd rather a work associate get the ass kickin' if you please. Damn idiot. He's just a pig, women are useless in his book and have half a brain and he wasted no time pointing that out to me this week. Thank God he works in another branch.

KimKirt wrote: "Diet Pepsi with a twist of lemon please. I'd drink, but I get severe migraines, yeah, ain't that a bitch? Took me two days to recoup from the ice wine incident. So, you can count me in to be the ba..."

Yeah see he forgot your order. Have you tried having tons of water before you drink? And some bread?

Your first day as a bartender isn't working out JIm. You already messed up my order and then forgot about Kim's. You can use some of that lemon you're murdering for Kim's drink.

And I thought you were gonna call that drink Sej-Mojito? I can get you a recipe if you'd like.

See I can be nice.

Hey hey hey! Be nice to him! I want to make sure that the yellow juice he puts in my drink IS lemon.

Kim! Don't give him ideas!

Jim you can keep the yellowy drinks.

KimK, I am so sorry! I was distracted by a demanding and unruly patron. Of course I will happily get your your Diet Pepsi with lemon. (I have to forewarn you however, that asking for a DP has an entirely different meaning. I don't want my words to get misconstrued as something untoward so I will direct you to Urban Dictionary for the common meaning to avoid any socially awkward situations which might arise from indiscriminate use the DP term)


KimK I will happily help you disabuse him of his silly notions. Women are the stronger half the species and always will be. And 'women are useless in his book'? Even the most sexist pig I know can find one or two uses for a women.

Sej, I would love a recipe for the Sej-Mojito. If it's any good, it may just go on the menu board.

Oh trust me, he's about boinked half the women he's worked with (shudder) and can't keep an assistant. I can handle and laugh and joke with the best of sexist pigs, but the ones that demean women, nope, that's the ones I can't stomach. Karma is taking a while to catch up with this one, but she'll bitch slap him eventually.

HOLY#$*! Batman! I never knew DP meant that! Honest to pete, wth? And I googled it at WORK???

Yo Jim, I'll have a vodka and cranberry! So is it true that the Lords of the Underworld like to hang out here sometimes?

KimK do you know that he's 'boinked' half the women he's worked with or is this rumor and innuendo. If it's true, especially if he's the one who told you, I'd say something to an HR representative. It would certainly help karma on her way.


And yeah. That's why I mentioned it to you. There might be a time that you asked somebody for some DP that really thought you meant something else.

Geezus! I can't believe I did that too even with your warning!

Jim if you find a lemon mojito that rocks, then we'll call it Sej-Mojito.

OK I've decided to use real words when talking to MEN.

Kyhm - one Cape Cod coming right up. Grey Goose OK with you? I don't know the Lords of the Underworld. I just got the place and don't really know much about the clientelle. How will I recognize them if they come in?

Sej - I might actually try to see if I can make one. I have the mint leaves and limes at home now but might hit the store and pick up a lemon or two tonight. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks Sej, glad I wasn't the only one.

Jim, I ask my husband for a DP all the time, and he in turn will ask me. I don't think I'm going to let him know the slang meaning.

Yeah, small town, pretty certain that he's boinked them, he doesn't exactly keep quiet about it and the MEN he has shared it with have told me (among others). He's never told me personally though because I'd probably slug him in the eye (or lower). He's higher up on the corporate ladder then the HR gal.

Ah but the HR gal has secret powers.

Seems to me that HR dept is higher than anyone. But if the Big Boss knows upstairs and noone has complained... Although if this is clearly stated in the policy and he broke the rules...

Photojim wrote: "Ah but the HR gal has secret powers."

Yeah, my friend is in HR and she definitely got some powers. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Trust us on this one KimK. In this area, the pen is definitely mightier than the penis.

i'm popping in with my advanced stats textbook in my bag...anyone want to help with homework?? if i'm a bit absent over the next month, you can blame it on stats!

Grey Goose is fine. I've heard them described as "HAWT"
I would post a picture but I haven't learned how to do that yet :)