My First Country Bar

My friend Monica celebrated her birthday a few days early last night at Dylan’s, a country bar. Yea we have the same name, and our birthdays are pretty close together. But anyways, when she told me we were going there, I automatically said, ‘I’ve never been to a country bar.’ In her evil voice she said, ‘Nice. We’re going to make you line dance!’ It might be the Asian in me, or I might just be deprived from the country scene, but I asked, ‘What’s line dancing?’ But then I realized that I might know what line dancing was. I confirmed with her that the electric slide is indeed line dancing and that is the only one I know (which they didn’t play!)

We’re sitting at the bar listening to country music and watching people line dance when Monica kept looking at her watch. I asked if she’s checking what time it is so she can leave soon. And she said she’s waiting for midnight because they play hip hop. HIP HOP?! Yea don’t get too excited. They played two hip hop songs which were a few years old. Apparently, if they play hip hop, the DJ gets charged 100 bucks each song he plays. So we head to the dance floor dancing when after the second song, they go back to country with a ‘simple’ line dance. Monica’s friend Judith was teaching me and after awhile I got the hang of it. Off the dance floor Monica felt accomplished to have the Asian girl who’s never stepped in a country bar line dance. Then this one song came on where they tell you what to do. I think it’s like a new version of the electric slide. That was my favorite because I just had to listen to the song. Seeing people try not to pull a muscle while trying to stay on that mechanical bull was quite amusing. Overall, it was a nice experience but I don’t think I’ll be visiting anytime soon. At least I can say I’ve been to a country bar and I've line danced.