A Thursday around 3pm Dawn came to me and said “hey we are done with this project, lets grab a drink”. I’m in.

Walking to our cars I suggested we head over to Applebee’s and see what the drink of the month was. So off we go, we get in and the place is dead. No one was at the bar so we grabbed a couple spots there. Constance; call me Connie was the bartender, cute looking gal. I asked what the drink of the month was she said its a Vampire. Dawn and I asked at the same time “ what’s that”? Connie said it had rum, passion fruit juice, pineapple juice and came with fangs and a cherry. Dawn and I looked at each other, I told Connie bring us a couple.

Well turns out they were purple because everyone knows purple is an official color of Halloween, and the fangs are those plastic that you bend and fit into your mouth. The drink tasted great, more like something you would have at the beach but that was fine.

I was almost done with the first one and Connie asked how it was. I told her they were great but would be better with less ice as the glass was full to the top with ice, and everyone knows ice displaces room for the good stuff.

I put my credit card on the bar and told Connie if she cut back on the ice and we never had an empty glass I would tip her $ .50 a drink, that’s a 50% tip as the drinks are only $1.00.