June 9, 2008
Missed Closing Time for Sleepy Time in Bar Bathroom
Ever wish your favorite bar would stay open til sunrise? The NY Times retells the tale of one young pioneer who braved his favorite watering hole through the witching hours all alone, as the staff went home and the doors were locked up. Kyle Hausmann, a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, went to Trophy Bar in Williamsburg on May 20th -- smart enough for the Ivy League, sure, but drunk enough to find himself locked in the establishment with no escape plan. The young lad was in the bathroom ("for reasons that are unclear even to him, he stayed in there for quite a while") when the bar was locked up.
Hausmann narrowed down his options, but decided his safest bet, calling the police, was too "extreme." Instead he attempted to open all the doors, contemplated another drink, called home (his roommate proving to be no help), hit redial on the bar phone (reaching the owner's mother in Las Vegas who was even less help), checked his email on a bar laptop, Googled what to do if you are locked in a bar, and tested out a pair of keys to the place that proved useless from the indoors (see note). After an internal debate about jumping a fence outside (and a quick nap), the owner, Jim Rowe, walked in at 8:30 a.m. Both seemed to have an "all's well that ends well" mentality about it, Hausmann has since returned and the Trophy Bar even blogged about the incident.
Well, it beats falling asleep on the F train and waking up in Coney Island -- though that would have probably made for a more interesting read.
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As always, there's more to the story than the parties involved acknowledge.
He may be a Harvard grad, but the bathroom part of the story raises my suspicions just a bit.
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Yawn...boring story.
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I love seeing the note! And I can understand falling asleep in a bathroom if you're really drunk...toilet seats can be very comfy! I guess the staff didn't check the bathroom when they left?
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Googling "what to do if you are locked in a bar"? Seriously? Can people not think anymore?
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for a harvard graduate, he has the penmanship of a 3rd grader.
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"hey bartender!
hay man,looky here!
draw one
draw two
draw three more glasses of beer!"
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As drunk as I've been in my life, I've never done anything that douche-y.
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"for a harvard graduate, he has the penmanship of a 3rd grader."
maybe he was a legacy?
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This proves, once and for all, that going to Harvard doesn't necessarily make you the least bit intelligent. His actions after he realized he was locked in make him sound like a mental defective.
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Jim Rowe!
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harvard kids start drinking later than everyone else because in high school they are all busy with AP classes and learning 3 languages. You can't blame the kid for that.
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Maybe it's time for AA?
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I suppose bathrooms get cleaned at the beginning of a shift??
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a truly riveting story. kid passes out (?) in bar. kid gets locked in bar. what would we do without such top notch journalism?
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Harvard grad... locked in the bathroom... working as a paralegal... living in Williamsburg...
damn yunnie.
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I guess I read it wrong. I thought the note said he let himself out, and locked up.
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So he was locked in a bar for FOUR HOURS??? So what?!?!?!!??!