nearly karaoke night

i just got back home from buffalo wild wings (better known as bdubs here) with some friends. it was exactly my kind of place. inside was karaoke, and they had some perfect sing along songs playing. there was some shania twain, backstreet boys, adele, cee lo green, and even some country music, among many other of my favourites. i was dying to go on stage and showed them what i'm made of. but, needless to say, people had signed up hours in advance and the list was closed - i probably wouldn't have ended up doing it anyway. if it were barbados, where the drinking law is basically nonexistent, it probably would have been a different story. when a song was chosen that killed the mood, outside was blasting all sorts of club music, so we could wander out there and get a change of atmosphere for a bit. it was such a good night. bar one thing. i understand the drinking law, and i will abide by it, but they take it way too far. before we even got in, there was a separate line for people under the age of twenty one. if you were in that line, you automatically got a black "X" drawn (scribbled) on either hand, big and bold, by the biggest sharpie ever invented. then you go, pay your money, and get a different band to everyone else, with "under 21" in big ang bold, once again, in red all around it. then, to take it one step further, if you go to the bar and ask for a drink (non alcoholic, of course) they draw ANOTHER "X" on the cup too! it's crazy. besides that one little glitch, everything was fun. in the outside patio, where the club music was playing, it was sometimes too hard to even move your arms because it was so crowded. inside only got really crowded when a crazy song people haven't heard in forever came on, like baby got back, or something by the spice girls. the karaoke part was so entertaining, and surprisingly most people sounded good! but of course, me being the wonderful singer/lyric-rememberer i am, i didn't even have to look at any of the six or seven big screens to sing along. my dreams of becoming a singer will come true one day. right?