I often have trouble deciding what to write in my little piece of the blogosphere. I try to be entertaining and serious and funny and well, you know, stupid. So in my ever expanding desire to be me, I decided to add a new feature to Dad2twins. It is called a true story…or not? I will write a little story about me or my friends and you will have to decide if it’s true. After a few days, I will post if it is true in the comments section of the post. To be fair, I stole the concept for this idea from Grant at The official site of grant miller. He fear he is one of the true geniuses of the blog world and he has a feature he often runs called “Death Cab for Cutie or Anonymous Hipster.”

So without further adu… A true story…or not? You decide.

I was once a famous movie producer.

My brother in law and I were in New Orleans to catch a cruise through the Caribbean with our family. We had been out to dinner with everyone and decided the night was still young and we wanted to party. Our Wives and Parents went back to the hotel and left us to our own devices. During our stay in New Orleans they were filming the movie “The Runaway Jury” We decided to hang out and watch them film the movie. Then we decided it wasn’t very fun to watch them film a movie when we could be at Pat O’Briens drinking Hurricanes instead. The only problem is that at Pat O’s, the Hurricanes cost about $8 dollars a piece and we could have rung up a big bill really fast. So our already drunk, scheming minds came up with a plan.

(A little background here. I have been to New Orleans about 10 times in my life and feel I know it pretty well. My brother in law is in sales and can sell just about anything to anybody.)

So back to our plan. We decided that we needed to figure out a way to get our drinks for free. (Do you see where I’m going here?) We decided to tell the the waiter that we were a couple of the movie producers for “The Runaway Jury” and we had had a long day on the set and wanted to get a couple of drinks. He obliged us and sent over the $16 bill each time we ordered a couple of drinks. We told him to keep them coming and we tipped him big. The bills kept piling up and we kept tipping. At this point we were getting pretty drunk and silly and we were starting to gather a crowd of hanger on-ers who wanted to be part of the movie as extras. Then all of the sudden our bar bills disappeared and drinks started appearing without us ordering them. At some point we were too drunk to care and we had promised that half the bar could be extras in the movie. “Just come to the set tomorrow and ask for us.” My brother in law and I said to about 30 people.

Come to find out the waiter and bar tender both wanted to be in the movie and picked up our bar tab. It came to well over a couple of hundred dollars with the drinks we passed on to many of our new “Friends” at nearby tables. After a few hours hanging out, we stumbled out of the bar, and back to our hotel stopping for pizza along the way. We never did have to pay anything for any of the drinks and ended our night only paying about $20 bucks in tips. Because that is what big time movie producers do. Isn’t it?
Two days later, we were getting ready to catch our cruise and had breakfast with the whole family in the French Quarter. Two girls came up to us and asked us where they should go to become movie extras. Without even hesitating, we told them to go to the courthouse in the French Quarter and ask for John Cusack and tell them the Producers sent you. Our family looked at us and didn’t even really ask any questions, knowing we had been up to something stupid. My brother in law and I have a history of doing stupid things together. The family expects it from us.
Two hours later we were on a cruise ship escaping New Orleans and our tall tales. About a year later the movie came out. They must have forgotten to list our names in the credits because we both looked and they were not there. Not to worry though, because the movie was not a big box office success and I fear it was because two of the producers were too drunk to really do proper oversite.

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