The Case of the Stolen Muffin

April 03, 2018 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

A few weeks ago, I got invited to a networking event. For the first hour, there would be an open bar. Of course, there was no liquor, which is my weapon of choice, but red wine would do. I needed to meet people.

The end of the hour drew near. I made my way back to the bar. The bartender had gone missing, but I noticed two glasses by the register—a glass of red and a glass of white.

A friend drew my attention. By the time the conversation ended, the hour had passed. The bartender asked for my credit card. I spotted the two glasses still there.

Do I Recognize You? Maybe Not? Should I STFU?

November 07, 2016 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, life lessons

Last Friday I was at a bar with some friends when “Neal” joined us. He brought his lady friend who I immediately recognized. Now this is landmark for me. I rarely remember people. But I knew I had seen her before. And I assumed I must have seen her with “Neal” the last time we hung out.

So I said as much after Neal and “Mindy” sat down with us.

Me: “Hey, how are you? It’s nice to see you again.”

Mindy: “Oh, have we met before?”

Here was my chance to just say, “Oh, el oh el, probably not. Jay kay. I’m Cazey.” Instead, I persisted in my ignorant ways and said, “Yeah, I think you were with Neal last time I saw him.

Wine, Wings, and Eviction

June 22, 2016 by Cazey Williams in Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Humor, Cazey's Column

When I asked my friend Meredith to accompany me to my friend's wedding, I knew it'd be fun, but I also felt bad since Meredith lived two hours further away from the wedding than I did. So when she said her only request in all this was that we get "sticky nugs" at Billy Jack's, I had to agree. The wedding was taking place in our college town of Harrisonburg, VA, and Billy Jack's was the locals wings shack.

We Uber'd to the wedding, but soon learned that was not a feasible exit strategy (see previous blog post), so we took a shuttle back to the wedding hotel. I call it the wedding hotel because that's where the bride, groom, and all the guests were supposed to be staying, but when I booked us a room there, Meredith freaked out the price and insisted we could find a cheaper hotel. Which we did. But that meant we took a shuttle back to a hotel we weren't staying at.

Meredith announced to the two other passengers in the shuttle, "Cazey, I'm just going to run into the lobby and use the bathroom and then we can head downtown. Is that okay?"

The People at Bars: A Bouncer's Perspective

June 19, 2015 by Will Woznicki in Life In Your 20's

I’m a bouncer at a college bar. While that might sound like a fun job, it can be quite the headache when people do not want to act their age. In my three years I’ve worked at two out of the three bars on campus. Most of my job is just people watching and making sure that everyone is behaving appropriately. It’s a different perspective of the bar when you’re standing two feet above the crowd. However, I’ve come to find that there are certain types of people that I see at bars:

Brunch Review: F.W. Sullivans

May 31, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, Richmond Brunch Review, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

I have a hit list of places I want to brunch at in Richmond, and F.W. Sullivan's has been one since following them on Instagram. Not only do they appear to have a variety of types of meals, ranging from steak to burgers to pasta dishes and flatbreads, but they deliver (except not for brunch, which I think would be beyond clever). I used that delivery option once for dinner, and felt a bit bad about it, as it was one of the coldest days of the year and the poor bastard biked our food to us. Anyways, not the point of this post. Back to brunch.

In all honesty, we were trying to go to Sidewalk, but then it was unreasonably busy, so we went to Sully's. It was perfectly not swamped, and we got right to a table. Before ordering, a waitress brought us a mimosa that we didn't order, then realized we were new here. She then came back to take our drink order -- just coffee and water (too tired/hungover for some mimosas, who knew that was possible).

Small World in a Small Bar

May 26, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Life In Your 20's

Several weekends ago I went out with L. We met up with two other friends from undergrad, B and T. They had come from a wedding and had been drinking since 3 PM. It was now 11 PM. And what happens when you come from a celebration of white rose petal romance that includes an open bar and you're all effectively single happened. B's goal for the end of the night? To go home with the bartender, or at least not pay her tab.

"I've never hooked up with a tattooed man before," she said.

Brunch Review: Banditos

February 15, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Richmond Brunch Review, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara, Uncategorized

Brunch at Banditos = Better than Expected

Real talk: When I first think of Banditos, I think of a smoking bar with ridiculously cheap drinks and dollar tacos during happy hours. And a lot of company I would not usually keep.

But brunch at Banditos is super legit! They have a bunch of TV's for the sports lovers. Banditos has a big enough space to bring a crowd of friends. They have cheap drinks. And it's one of the only places I know of that serve chips and salsa as a brunch appetizer.

On the downside, if you do happen to take a large crowd, it does really cramp service time. However, if you're rolling that deep, that's probably an expected outcome anywhere. And the chips did help to fill the void.

Things That Happened at the Masquerade

February 09, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor, Life In Your 20's, Sara's Column

A couple weekends ago, Sara and I attended a masquerade ball. I sit on the exec board for the organization that hosted the ball, so my favorite game of the night was having everyone guess how much the ball cost. Since our tickets were free, we decided to go all out on our masks. Unfortunately, the first couples' set we chose sold out, but we received a discount for our next choice. We chose - I should be real here; I chose - a metal filigree mask that was hot as Hades. Truly, my only wish for the evening was to get a killer profile pic. However, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Leading up to the ball, I asked my friends where they were getting their masks. The most common response was, "Oh, are people wearing masks? I wasn't going to."

Me: (I guess I'll leave my $22 mask at home. Uh, no.) "You should wear a mask; I hear everyone else is."