Other than giving sound advice through its name, basking in its questionable existence
How often does life come down to finding that sought after silver lining, or acknowledging a saving grace? If you’re in a mood to ‘take it easy’, don’t bother about the silver line, okay?
So we were on our way to a relatively known poison hole when a brightly lit board on a very busy Link Road in Andheri West caught our attention. “Take it Easy”, it said, and it didn’t take too very long for us pub hoppers to realise that apart from giving life lessons to the world, the neon board stood for other worldly things.
It’s been a fair while since we consumed the trauma, and let’s just say that we’re still recovering from the illness we invited upon ourselves for deciding to give this place a try.
So the decision was made to explore a new place. On the face of it, you’d probably be convincing yourself by asking “What’s the harm?” After being put off for becoming ‘stag entry’ rejects and literally making us feel like pigs, we found ourselves taking the decision to explore the place a little too seriously – as if it were final and binding. The repercussion exceeded gargantuan proportions.
Their bouncer baddies saw our piggy faces and offered us their sheesha space, because guess what, us ‘lesser mortal’ stags are free to enter their so called “rooftop”, which is what we did, and which is what we will regret for the rest of our lives.
The waiters here very openly, and on an embarrassingly red uniform, flaunt the words “Born to Take It Easy”, under the guise of “Born to Be Losers” or “Born to Be Ass Holes” if you may.
Their rooftop sheesha looked like a wedding reception lawn turned sleaze-fest, and owing to the rains, it had an unwelcome but necessary guest – a fucking roof. Sounds suicidal, doesn’t it? Well, we’ve clearly lived to relive the horrid tale.
Now, what discomforted us the most was not the fact that this utterly claustrophobic space felt smothered with hooka and a cocktail of flavours, but the fact we were inhaling the combined breaths of an excessively loud bunch of drunk and daft twenty somethings. More than the air, we felt our minds were getting polluted up there.
How often does life come down to finding that sought after silver lining, or acknowledging a saving grace? Well, we didn’t even bother trying because the alcohol menu didn’t throw up anything new, and who knows where they cook their food? To be fair – the fish popcorn did make a valiant effort, but since it’s the season, let’s just say that it went medal-less.
The trauma finally ended, and the 4 digit figure on the bill did everything it could to make matters worse. Let’s just say that we created a blot on our pub hopping graph, a dent that will live on for a long, long time.
On our way out, we took a glance at the ‘greater mortals’, the privileged fuckers who danced their way to a cheaply remixed version of the new Kaala Chasma remake, hopping in their pub while we continued to pub hop. If you do end up “taking it easy” like the way we did, you might need to wear Kaala Chasma’s for the rest of your lives to hide your faces.
Where? KL Walawalkar Marg, Jeevan Nagar, Opposite Star Bazaar, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400053
