The party scene has amped up due to the different venues that are hosting watch parties. Beso was…read moreone of them, and thus I decided to visit this spot for a good time. And a good time I did have. But before getting here I had to experience its line.
Colombia was playing another team, I cannot remember who their opponent were. After this game, Argetina was playing another team, I cannot remember who the other team was, either. I was in line to enter the club while the Colombia game raged. The entrance was suppose to be free. Yet the line was not moving. Which gave me an opportunity to view the dynamics of the line, and quite frankly, also endure them. In front of me were four guys. They were roughhousing, or should I say roughlining. One of the guys made another guy drop his cellphone and glass case. The guy who dropped his items called the instigator colorful names laced with expletives but with a smile and jovial energy. To each their own I thought, but I did not see how this kind of engagement was fun. Then I discovered that the instigator had been kicked out of the club earlier. He was asked to leave anew, to depart not only from the club but from its line. He had tried to insert himself with an existing group and thus enter cloaked by a pack. The three guys did not disengage with the instigator and followed his shenanigans with a grin and bare it approach. I am not sure how they felt when the bloke left but I think they might have felt an internal sense of relief that they did not show in their body language.
Soon after it was my turn to feel the lash of the line. There was this security guard or bouncer that spoke to the three dudes in front of me. He explained that the cost to enter was 10 dollars because now that the Colombia game had finished, the after party began, and to enter it would be 10 dollars. I heard three guys behind me discuss the entry free and decided to not enter. I heard them rationalize how 10 dollars was too much to spend for Beso. Their reasons mostly surrounded around the statement one made: "I've been here before and there were not many girls". So they decided to "step out later that night."The biggest take away for me is that they did not want to shell 10 dollars after waiting and being there. They were not cheap, they were responsible with their fun spending, and made choices that were best for them. They reflected what one should do when navigating a nearly suffocating inflation atmosphere.
The three guys in front of me entered and so did I. However, the security or bounce that I discussed above tried to block my good time. When he informed the three guys of the cost, he only looked at them and not me. WhenI was paying, he told the casher, "you wanna let him in, he was wearing a tshirt." The cashier nodded yes, and the bouncer said, "are you sure." In my attempt to party, he was the villain of my tale. I was showered, clean, dressed in what I felt comfortable in, and made me feel good, and he deemed it unworthy attire. To him, I say relax, my outfit in no way disrupted the integrity of Beso. But he made me feel like I should not enter despite other people wearing Jersey and t-shirts. I felt singled out, and for what reason I am not sure.
The partying was so much. And I did meet a bartender who helped the cause. His name was Marcel. I got three margaritas. When I went for the third one, he was helping another customer, and as she was closing her tab he looked at me and raised his finger to signal one, and I said yes. He had gathered that I was there for my usual, and instinctively shortened my wait. He acted in a respectful and seasoned matter. These actions seem small but they help me feel like the party belongs to me too!
The game played in screens in front of us and above us, while the dance floor blazed. I lost myself in the moment, in the good time, which is the highest praise I can offer a club. I had fun, and I was glad I came. At one point, I looked at the lasers of Beso, and my mind was quietly hypnotized because the videos seem to have a vapor flowing within them. I tried to capture a video of it, but I am not sure if I was successful in capture the vapor inside the lights. But I never had seen taht before, and I am not sure where it came from, the vapor within the light.
I will go here again, I will just make sure to take the right type of shirt. And maybe have one in the car as backup in case my taste does not meet the quality measure of this place.
