* Fututre NYC DR1 gatherings *

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I have been informed that the responsibility of arranging future NYC gatherings has been shifted to me. If I am to host them, they will always be held at DRK and will occur every 2 or 3 months. The next one will be sometime in late September and then we will have one in mid December for Christmas. I think we have enough participants now that we will always be able to get a good group together and as more people become aware of the reunions the group should grow. I think DRK is a good choice because being in Washington Heights, it is convienent for most people to get to ( the Staten Islanders unfortunately have a long hike). The food is excellent and the club upstairs is a great place to go after dinner. Most of us were there until 4am the other night. There was a little confusion with the bill this time so I just ask everyone in the future to be aware of how much their entrees cost and how many drinks they had when it comes time to settle the bill. Most entrees run about $20.00 and drinks are $8.00 to $10.00. Aside from that, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please add them here or pm them to me. Come September, we can start tossing dates around.
Larry
 

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Sounds good to me. Looking forward to the next one. Seems like everyone enjoyed themselves Friday. The group is growing that's for sure. Way to go guys!
 

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Forbeca, everybody kept saying how you were missed. Hope to meet the next go around!

Larry, here are my suggestions for the bill:
Devide the table up 2 or 3 bills. That way it is simpler and smaller groups can take care of it. Once the dinner bill comes in, pay it. If anyone wants drinks, have them go to the bar and pay for them themselves. I think most of the confusion came from the drinks (or someone's drinks) and this can be avoided if the bill is paid early on.

I obsolutely hate group bills, I try to get my own whenever possible.
La gente se hace el chivo loco and I am not crazy...
 

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That's an excellent suggestion!!!

Talldrink said:
Forbeca, everybody kept saying how you were missed. Hope to meet the next go around!

Larry, here are my suggestions for the bill:
Devide the table up 2 or 3 bills. That way it is simpler and smaller groups can take care of it. Once the dinner bill comes in, pay it. If anyone wants drinks, have them go to the bar and pay for them themselves. I think most of the confusion came from the drinks (or someone's drinks) and this can be avoided if the bill is paid early on.

I obsolutely hate group bills, I try to get my own whenever possible.
La gente se hace el chivo loco and I am not crazy...
 

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Talldrink the problem wasn't with the group. The problem was with the restaurant charging us close to $100.00 in food not consume by our group. Although doing small bills sounds like a very good idea.

The restaurant was very quick to deduct it. I think they thought we were all drunk and wouldn't know. why not make a fast $100. I like to think it was an honest mistake though, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Larry should consider your suggestion though.

Lina



Talldrink said:
Forbeca, everybody kept saying how you were missed. Hope to meet the next go around!

Larry, here are my suggestions for the bill:
Devide the table up 2 or 3 bills. That way it is simpler and smaller groups can take care of it. Once the dinner bill comes in, pay it. If anyone wants drinks, have them go to the bar and pay for them themselves. I think most of the confusion came from the drinks (or someone's drinks) and this can be avoided if the bill is paid early on.

I obsolutely hate group bills, I try to get my own whenever possible.
La gente se hace el chivo loco and I am not crazy...
 

Forbeca

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I'm not sure I want to be around for that... :nervous:


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Larry you have to throw the next one with Miguels help, You guys have to kiss and make up.
Badpiece
 

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Its summer, so why not some of you folks with a larger house hold a dr1 gathering in their back yard and have a BBQ. This way no more confusion on the bill. how about having a seperate bill considering only 5-6 people show up at a time.
Ok ok, you folks are saying "what business AZB has in NYC Dr1 reunions if he doesn't even attend it?" Guess what, I may just show up in the next one, especially when you folks will have one every 3 months from now on. I may come to save my buddy miguel from becoming larry's bitch for the night. man o man larry really blew his top off last night in the chat. I hope you 2 make up through PMs. I know larry is easy going and will accomodate any arrangment you two may have for each other. Good luck.
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linamia said:
The problem was with the restaurant charging us close to $100.00 in food not consume by our group. .. The restaurant was very quick to deduct it. I think they thought we were all drunk and wouldn't know. why not make a fast $100. I like to think it was an honest mistake though, give them the benefit of the doubt.

These danm Dominicans...
 

Larry

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I don't really like the idea of splitting the table up into sections because we kept moving around and it would become very confusing for the waiters. Also, as far as going up to the bar every time we want a drink seems a little inconvienent. I didn't realize the staff had put things on our bill that didn't belong. As long as that doesn't happen in the future, I am sure there will be no confusion. As long as everyone makes a mental note of the cost of their entree and how many drinks they had it sould be simple enough when the bill arrives. For example, if your entree is $20.00 and you have 2 glasses of wine which cost $8.00 each, you are looking at $36.00 plus tax comes to about $40.00 and with the 15% tip, your contribution should be $46.00. If you want to add a dollar or two for good measure then thats fine. If for some reason this dosen't work next time, we will try Talldrinks way at the Christmas dinner.

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AZB said:
I may come to save my buddy miguel from becoming larry's bitch for the night. man o man larry really blew his top off last night in the chat. I hope you 2 make up through PMs. I know larry is easy going and will accomodate any arrangment you two may have for each other. Good luck.
AZB

Aftab, you are witness to the fact that I tried repeatedly to put my best foot forward and make amends with Miguel last night but he refused to budge and instead insisted on repeatedly insulting me and using profanity towards me. For some reason, he thinks I insulted his Mom which is something I would NEVER do. If I recall correctly, when he informed us he was going through a tough time which I believe had to do with his Mothers passing, I posted that I felt for him and that we would always be here for him. I am not going to do a search to find exactly what I did say but if Miguel cares to, he can to refresh his memory. Dispite his behavior last night, I am still open to an apoligetic pm from him if he cares to send one. I would like to think that I am a bigger man than what our conversation last night reflects. Now as far as I am concerned, that is the end of that. Miguel, the ball is in your court.

Larry

edited to add : I just did a search, the thread had to do with your brother Miguel. The title is "I will be fine eventually". My post is on page 2.
 
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Way too busy for this petty things!!

Larry said:
Aftab, you are witness to the fact that I tried repeatedly to put my best foot forward and make amends with Miguel last night but he refused to budge and instead insisted on repeatedly insulting me and using profanity towards me. For some reason, he thinks I insulted his Mom which is something I would NEVER do. If I recall correctly, when he informed us he was going through a tough time which I believe had to do with his Mothers passing, I posted that I felt for him and that we would always be here for him. I am not going to do a search to find exactly what I did say but if Miguel cares to, he can to refresh his memory. Dispite his behavior last night, I am still open to an apoligetic pm from him if he cares to send one. I would like to think that I am a bigger man than what our conversation last night reflects. Now as far as I am concerned, that is the end of that. Miguel, the ball is in your court.
Larry

edited to add : I just did a search, the thread had to do with your brother Miguel. The title is "I will be fine eventually". My post is on page 2.
I will tel you, for the last time, I have stated over and over again that anybody can attack me all they want but not to get say things about my family or loved ones. You called me a "mother ******" last night and I will not tolerate that. By the way, you seem to forget that you said it even when AZB was telling you that in fact you said it. I want you to understand something, stop trying so darn hard for me to like you, if I don't like you, life goes on. What it is with you with the "infactuation"?. Since I came to this site a year ago, you have, every chance you get, attacked me, called me names, questioned my manhood and even questioned over and over my mentality state and all is fine and dandy since I can take it, but I have been telling you for months to stop with the personal questions stuff and you just keep on and on and on. I am not talking about my relationship with Amber, it's just the stupid questions you ask and you seem no to know what "that's personal" means. I already told you, what in hell do you care if I don't want to be your friend. I really do not want to be around you because there are many things that I don't like about you, one being, imo, a very negative person towards women. But I am here to tell you that you will not "run me out of town" like you have done to some female poster. I am sure that there are some on this board that could care less if they met me or not so why am I so important to you that even if I tell you that I, for now, do not care to know you, you just keep on and on. I am mature enough to let this die but as I told you last night, I need for you to call me what you called me last night right at my face. Maybe we will become best of friends, but I need to see it. Being mad is just and excuse because I WOULD NEVER disrecpect your mother, or any mother for that matter, that way, specially knowing that your mother is dead. I will try my best to be social with you, not friends, but mad or not, you just do not go around calling people that. Yes, you tried to make ammends yesterday but just let things be. By the way, my dear mother was, is and will always be the # person in my life, even if she died 10 years ago, but it hurst as if it was 20 minutes ago. I just hope that your mother is still alive because if she is not, Grhs, you would know how I felt last night.
Now, back to business, AZB, any hair still?, hehe.
 

Larry

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OK then, that is that.

Let's get this back on the topic of future nyc gatherings.

Larry
 

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Larry said:
I have been informed that the responsibility of arranging future NYC gatherings has been shifted to me. If I am to host them, they will always be held at DRK and will occur every 2 or 3 months. The next one will be sometime in late September and then we will have one in mid December for Christmas. I think we have enough participants now that we will always be able to get a good group together and as more people become aware of the reunions the group should grow. I think DRK is a good choice because being in Washington Heights, it is convienent for most people to get to ( the Staten Islanders unfortunately have a long hike). The food is excellent and the club upstairs is a great place to go after dinner. Most of us were there until 4am the other night. There was a little confusion with the bill this time so I just ask everyone in the future to be aware of how much their entrees cost and how many drinks they had when it comes time to settle the bill. Most entrees run about $20.00 and drinks are $8.00 to $10.00. Aside from that, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please add them here or pm them to me. Come September, we can start tossing dates around.
Larry

Larry, I am sure that the future gatherings are in good hands! If there is anything I can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask!!
John
 

carlos

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hahahahaha


Larry and Miguel will one day meet and I have a feeling that their first exchage will be a hug.

Just remember to judge a human being not for the mistakes they make, but for what they do after to rectify it.

You guys will be fine.

As far as Aftab, he is a lost cause.
 

miguel

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You never know!!

cmedina07 said:
hahahahaha


Larry and Miguel will one day meet and I have a feeling that their first exchage will be a hug.

Just remember to judge a human being not for the mistakes they make, but for what they do after to rectify it.

You guys will be fine.

As far as Aftab, he is a lost cause.
Maybe we will become best friends, hehe. But just for my curiosity, I need to see if he will slap me when he sees me as he said. Man, I can not wait!!!!

Ps: I don't know if I asked this before but, AZB, any hair yet?. Soon I will be joining your club, hehe.

Anyways, back to the topic, for me, going to one of these reunions would be just way too complicated. True, I can call in sick and not go to work, but there is 1 trainee that I have to take into consideration. And to be honest, and its just my humble opinion, a reunion in the US does not have the same feeling as one in the DR, again, I am just expressing my opinion. It just does not do it for me. And then I have to take into consideration the more than 4 hours drive (each way) and the going to work the next day. I know for a fact that I will make at least one, some day, and that it's a promise.
 
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carlos

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he is gonna slap a big hug


NYC gatherings seem to be fun which is a reason for trying to make it next time.
 

miguel

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No way!!!

cmedina07 said:
he is gonna slap a big hug


NYC gatherings seem to be fun which is a reason for trying to make it next time.
Only my bitches, AZBitch and CharlieViagra can give me hugs, hehe.

As I said, some people like them some don't. You never know, maybe I feel this way now but maybe, just maybe I will change my mind in the future.

Ps: Yes, I know that I am not important and that the reunion will go on without me, it's just that to some it's important and to others it's not. I wish all 'lotta" fun.

Pss: time for me to get lost again, please guys, do not quote me since I do not want to post because I am pretty (yes I am) busy. Roger and Out!!!
 

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miguel said:
Only my bitches, AZBitch and CharlieViagra can give me hugs, hehe.

As I said, some people like them some don't. You never know, maybe I feel this way now but maybe, just maybe I will change my mind in the future.

Ps: Yes, I know that I am not important and that the reunion will go on without me, it's just that to some it's important and to others it's not. I wish all 'lotta" fun.

Pss: time for me to get lost again, please guys, do not quote me since I do not want to post because I am pretty (yes I am) busy. Roger and Out!!!

I'm sorry, what was that again? lol cuidate
 
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