Bono feeds the world

We were about to tell them to fuck off but then we remembered that as we hadn't paid in, we didn't have too strong a case so we complied with their not very polite request. It turned out that the special guests were Bono and The Edge so I assumed they hadn't paid in either. We made a beeline for the bar, just in case Bono decided to lecture us. Sometimes playing tight is the play.

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from the Fortune Room's Barney Gribbin. He told me that a friend of his from Magherafelt in Northern Ireland had recently gotten engaged and to celebrate, took his fiancée to Dublin on a "push the boat out" weekend. They went to one of Dublin's finest restaurants for dinner and shortly after they had ordered, the head waiter asked them to move tables as a very important customer was arriving and they were seated at his favourite table.

They did so and shortly afterwards Bono and some other guy arrived and sat at the table from which they had just been moved. After a few drinks, Barney's mate began to wonder why he had to move for Bono and after a few more was getting rightly pissed off at the way he'd been treated.

He went to the toilets where he met Bono's pal and told him that this was their big night and he didn't see why he should have had to move for Bono, or anyone else for that matter. The guy apologised for the inconvenience that he'd suffered and shortly afterwards, a bottle of champagne was sent over to the now not very happy couple's table. This cheered them up and they got further good news when they tried to pay the bill only to be told it had already been taken care of. "Oh! Did Bono pay?", he asked. "No," was the reply, "Bruce Springsteen did."

Courtesy of www.cardplayer.com.