Happy Hour Guest: "This place is a bit more expensive than the Galway Hooker, isn't it?"
Me to She: "Have you paid for a drink yet tonight?"
Happy Hour Guest: "No..."
Me: "So there's no problem, is there?"
If it wasn't for WSO on this Friday night, 48 Lounge would have been empty. The modelesque hostesses showed arrival after arrival to our slowly growing group, clustered around several standing tables near the bar. By 10pm, over 30 WSO monkeys had turned up, and I could barely keep up with all the handshakes, backslaps, and newcomers introducing themselves.
With the exception of @fearless and yours truly, this event was almost devoid of WSO regulars. Entirely new faces for this Happy Hour. I invited some new acquaintances from another organization, and they brought their friends, expanding the crowd. It was also a festive occasion for those of us who had just passed Level 3 of a certain exam--congratulations, guys, the carnage is over.
I gotta start out by calling out first-timers @yeahright and @Skinnayyy . Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you make a good first impression at happy hour. Show up on time, chat about work for a bit, order a couple of drinks, and be personable.
"Have you ever tried this before?" I asked @Skinnayyy holding up my Ommegang Hennepin.
"In 5 words or less," he held up his Bud Light, "tell me how it's different from this."
"It's better."
A few minutes later I look around to see many people drinking it indeed. You're welcome. @Frieds any thoughts on this brew for BSD?
I talked and exchanged business cards with many first-timers who had only recently joined the Happy Hour mailing list (including a lovely nurse). People expressed many thanks for organizing, and discussions even took place about some of WSO's greatest threads (i.e, "Who is that guy who challenged someone to a fight on Wall Street and Broadway?").
Someone even came down to the event because he laughed so hard at the story of Three-Piece (see the comments section of "Happy Hour Best Practices and Recaps"), that he had to check it out for himself. "Please tell me that actually happened!" he begged me. "Every word of it," I replied.
When I saw two drunken newcomers with one arm around each other's shoulder and the other arm holding a drink, bellowing things like, "You're drunk, bro! No, YOU'RE DRUNK BRO!" it was mission accomplished.
The happy hours have come a long way and gotten even more popular in the 2 years I've been hosting them. I only hope and wish for further success to our compadres in other cities to spread the WSO love all over the world. There is tremendous value in doing these things, and whenever I see so many people thanking me for organizing a good time, I get a mild head rush that is only slightly to do with booze.
WSO hosts in other cities! Keep it up! You can't let us New Yorkers have all the fun.
Other Recaps:
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/happy-hour-recap-december
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/new-york-happy-hour-recap-feb-6-2014
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/happy-hour-recap-february-part-2
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/wso-happy-hour-best-practices-and-recaps-u…
great write up!
-glad to hear @yeahright and @Skinnayyy made it
-yes someone on WSO has challenged at least two people (that I know of) to meet them on the corner of wall and broadway and at least one of them chickened out each time
-the three piece story lives on, i love it, and yes every part is true
Edit: I was wrong, I just checked. I was told I would get skull-fucked by one guy and reported to the FBI by another. Good times.
yes df you were called out to wall/main and didnt show, who's the tough guy now
Mr. Fuld, was this you?
man.... @"In the Flesh", now people are going to know that I drink Bud Light!!! haha You said something specific like it's maltier or something, but the completely drunken weekend I had is never going to allow me to remember what you said!
It was a good time and I hope that I can make more in the future!
PS. I don't know if everyone has been reading the posts on how to act at an event like this but I'm sooooooo glad I wasn't talking about work all night!
How many monkeys you get as these? Hopefully I'll be able to attend something in the fall or winter
I'm going to preface this with my judgment being fairly cloudy thanks to a friend I like to call beer.
I'd guess there was about 30 give or take 5.
Shame I missed this one. Any chance we can get another happy hour in before the end of the summer?
i have a feeling they'll be planning another for sometime in September, make sure you're on the NYC event list!
Shhh.....
Definitely always going to attend now. Glad I could finally get to one, when's the next?
glad to hear you had a good time, wish i couldve joined you all
When's the next one of these? @In the Flesh
Sometime in September. Get on the email list to know in advance :)
I jumped on the list so I'll definitely be there in September.
@In The Flesh I was on vacation..hope you shut it down
Yes.
Was a really good time. Met a lot of cool dudes (and the waitresses were smokin)', definitely will be at the next one as well.
"Modelesque." Seriously, one of them was so tall I was craning my neck to see her.
I wonder - what's the usual age range at these things? I've never been to one apart from that one time around the WSO conference, and I imagine that most of the attendees are probably on the younger end...?
@"Angus MacGyver" : 20s and 30s are the overwhelming majority, not just for our group but for the rest of the venue.
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