If you are a University of Idaho student, of age or not, you know what Ladies Night is. If you don’t know what is, let me explain. Ladies Night is a glorified week night in Moscow, ID where you can get cheap drinks at the Corner Club, but only if you’re a lady. For those of us who are familiar with this event in Moscow, this article will remind you of things you love and hate about Ladies Night, and for those who are still attending Young Ladies Night at Beta, here’s an inside look on a typical Thursday night in the Dirty Scow.
Typically, earlier in the day, you start to receive a plethora of texts and questions all going something like this: “Are you going to ladies night?” And of course, your answer is always something like this…
After you committed to going you start to feel remorse and think maybe you have too much homework so you’ll have to skip out on Ladies Night just this one time. Usually, you have the one friend who is a bad influence on you who convinces you to go.
After a lot of convincing (or not) you start to get ready for the night while simultaneously drinking some form of alcohol. This is what we like to call “pre-gaming” because although you are going to get really cheap drinks tonight at The Club why not get started early on?
Finally it is somewhere between 9 and 10 pm and you are starting to feel good and ready for the night.
You get to The Club and you smile at the door man and walk right in because there is no need to show your ID, the bartenders know who you are. You’re a regular.
At this point you are ready to get started on another drink and the line is not too long yet, so why not?
When you get to the bar there is always that one friend who thinks it is smart to start the night with a round of fireball shots. After all, they are only $2.00 a shot. Score!
Sometimes, the music at the Club can be questionable and although it sounds like a dull roar inside the Club during ladies night, you have to go to the jukebox and try to put on your favorite song.
It's already time for another drink but this time, there is a huge crowd surrounding the bar and you don’t know if you’ll ever make it to the front.
You think that because you know the bartenders that even though everyone has been waiting longer than you, they’ll serve you your drink first. But you are very very wrong.
Anyone who is a regular Ladies Night attendee knows that the only things that takes more time than getting your drink is waiting for that song you picked on the Jukebox to come on. You look across the room and that same Jukebox jerk is there to pay extra and skip your song.
Well, if you can’t listen to your song, you might as well go to the bathroom and finally break the seal. It is not a complete trip to the bathroom on Ladies Night if you don’t have a heart to heart with your best friend.
Or a random stranger…
At this point in the night, we all have that one friend who just is not on our level who’s just like…
But you insist…
Time for more drinks and instead of waiting around for a drink like you did earlier in the night; you’re feeling a little more vocal towards your bartenders
about what you want.
And just like that 2:00 am rolls around and Don tells everybody…
Some people may think when the bar closes it is time to go home and go to sleep but you and your friend both know it is time to feast.
Finding a sober drive is nearly impossible so you have to settle for the next best food option: The Grub Truck. Who doesn’t love their bacon mac and cheese anyway?
You soon realize, communicating what you want to order is hard. No one should have let you socialize this late and after so many drinks.
When you finally get your food, you do not share with anyone. You earned that mac and cheese.
The next thing you know, you’re waking up in your bed, with a half eaten mac and cheese the morning after Ladies Night like…
Now, it is time to do the unthinkable: check your bank account.
Although Thursday should be your cheapest evening yet, you somehow managed to spend $10.00 on the Jukebox, $15.00 at the Grub Truck and an unthinkable amount at The Club. You like to tip your bartenders 150% gratuity.
And even though you tell yourself every week, you won’t be such a disaster at Ladies Night you end up going back on your word to yourself.
At the end of the day, no matter the damage, you know you’ll keep going back to the Corner Club every Thursday because...
