Comments on: Don’t Play Yourself http://billcammack.com/2008/06/21/dont-play-yourself/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:04:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com/2008/06/21/dont-play-yourself/#comment-16867 Bill Cammack Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:52:23 +0000 http://billcammack.com/?p=1042#comment-16867 @Sean: Thanks for the professional input! :D Very interesting. That's a good point that if you're trying to tip $20, you have to spread that out between all the people you're trying to get in the door. $5/person is relatively disrespectful and there's no reason for a bouncer to let people in at that rate. I totally LOVE "You're not him". hahahaha I'm going to have to find a reason to use that on somebody! :D Cheers! :D There's a bar on the East side, called "Sutton Place" that uses the collar restriction. They're consistent about it, though, haha. "Too many guys" or "We're not admitting single guys" is still being used to this day, which is why we would hang out down the block or at a restaurant and recruit chicks to walk to the front of the line with us. Even chicks that weren't planning to go to a bar will walk you into a bar/club if you have the right sap rap. @Sean: Thanks for the professional input! :D Very interesting.

That’s a good point that if you’re trying to tip $20, you have to spread that out between all the people you’re trying to get in the door. $5/person is relatively disrespectful and there’s no reason for a bouncer to let people in at that rate.

I totally LOVE “You’re not him”. hahahaha I’m going to have to find a reason to use that on somebody! :D

Cheers! :D

There’s a bar on the East side, called “Sutton Place” that uses the collar restriction. They’re consistent about it, though, haha. “Too many guys” or “We’re not admitting single guys” is still being used to this day, which is why we would hang out down the block or at a restaurant and recruit chicks to walk to the front of the line with us. Even chicks that weren’t planning to go to a bar will walk you into a bar/club if you have the right sap rap.

]]> By: Sean Bohan http://billcammack.com/2008/06/21/dont-play-yourself/#comment-16866 Sean Bohan Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:56:35 +0000 http://billcammack.com/?p=1042#comment-16866 Cammack! If I didnt know better I would say you spent the same 7+ years with me working the door. You are exactly right on nearly every point. One thing to remember - the bouncer can't go anywhere. He can't leave. He will be there when the chicks walk in and when they leave with toolbag #54 at the end of the night. Half the time, the last thing you want is to chat with the customers on line (you inevitably get the "whats the worst fight you have been in" and "do you do this for a living - two of my faves). If the customers are hot (correct sir!) or even entertaining, you dont mind them being online. If they are ANNOYING, PAINS IN THE ASS the only thing the bouncer can really do, other than refuse to let them in (and that is the really last resort) is to torment them... by makin' em wait :) Trying to give the bouncer some cash works sometimes, but no guarantee - the owner or manager might be watching, the place is just too packed to let in a tipper (believe me, it happens), or more importantly, you are tipping too little. Telling me you are a player and then only offering 20 bucks for you and 3 friends would result in me making you wait even longer or not get in - and I had some good excuses: No hats No Corduroy pants (swear to god I used this) Too many guys, come back in 2 hours Shoes Only Your Shirt must have a collar I once refused to let a jerk and his 2 hammered friends in on the pretense "no hats guys". As I said this one of the regulars high fived me wearing a kangol. Jerk: "he had a hat!" Me:"you are not him" awesome post Cammack!

If I didnt know better I would say you spent the same 7+ years with me working the door. You are exactly right on nearly every point. One thing to remember – the bouncer can’t go anywhere. He can’t leave. He will be there when the chicks walk in and when they leave with toolbag #54 at the end of the night. Half the time, the last thing you want is to chat with the customers on line (you inevitably get the “whats the worst fight you have been in” and “do you do this for a living – two of my faves). If the customers are hot (correct sir!) or even entertaining, you dont mind them being online. If they are ANNOYING, PAINS IN THE ASS the only thing the bouncer can really do, other than refuse to let them in (and that is the really last resort) is to torment them… by makin’ em wait :)

Trying to give the bouncer some cash works sometimes, but no guarantee – the owner or manager might be watching, the place is just too packed to let in a tipper (believe me, it happens), or more importantly, you are tipping too little. Telling me you are a player and then only offering 20 bucks for you and 3 friends would result in me making you wait even longer or not get in – and I had some good excuses:
No hats
No Corduroy pants (swear to god I used this)
Too many guys, come back in 2 hours
Shoes Only
Your Shirt must have a collar

I once refused to let a jerk and his 2 hammered friends in on the pretense “no hats guys”. As I said this one of the regulars high fived me wearing a kangol.

Jerk: “he had a hat!”
Me:”you are not him”

awesome post

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