Day 74: How to Clear Out a Bar

Long ago, when I started this project, my boyfriend had an idea. He said we should go to Stucko's and play every Nickelback song on the jukebox. I thought it was a great idea, but I never got a chance to do it. Until now.

Tonight, my boyfriend, my friend, and I went to Stucko's. We waited awhile and played some trivia. Then we jumped on the juke box. There were three songs in the queue, but I put in my dollar, ready to see what would happen. Instead of picking every song, I thought I'd spare everyone, and only play a few by them. I expected to get four songs or so for my dollar, but instead, I got 7 credits! So, I went through and picked all the classics: "Photograph," "Something in Your Mouth," and four others. Then, just for good measure, I scrolled up and picked a random medley by Neil Diamond.

Not five minutes after my boyfriend and I went back to our seats at the table, a girl went over to the jukebox and said, "NICKELBACK?!" She was shocked, and obviously disgusted. Her mouth was hanging open. Anyway, this girl started calling her friends over to look at the jukebox, complaining to all of them. "Somebody picked eight Nickelback songs!" she said. Actually, I wanted to tell her, it's six. But I tried to stay discrete, because I was afraid she, or someone else, really might beat me up.

So this girl keeps whining about the Nickelback songs, and Danielle of Monster Care, came over to me, and said, "I heard someone say that someone picked eight Nickelback songs." I told her that was me. She said she saw me walk in, and thought it might have been me. She was right, but we tried to keep it on the downlow.

After this girl complained for awhile more, and had some employees over there looking at the jukebox, the last song in the queue before mine were to start, began to play. It was "Sweet Caroline." But soon after that, they shut the jukebox off completely! I MADE THEM RESET THE JUKEBOX! I felt so powerful.

We left right after this, and as we were leaving, I heard the girl say to her friend, "You'd rather listen to eight Nickelback songs?!" She really hated it. So, in conclusion, I'm really glad that girl was there, because she made this experience really, really great.

So, anyway, it turned out to be better than I expected. I thought that maybe Nickelback would start playing and people would be like, "What the heck is this?" But I never, EVER thought that they would just shut off the entire jukebox and restart it. Ultimate power. Awesome. I hope Chad Kroeger and Co. knows the effect their music has on people in a bar.