By: M.F.
3/22/04
So the other night, Cata and I go dancing at this phat place off of the
"water front"...it's pretty decent and diversified and they play every
music you could ever want to hear...the club is huge and has several large
sections all equipped with their own dj...one section has hip-hop, another
section has Latin music and then techno, etc. We danced it all and when a
song we didn't like would come on, we go to another section...it was pretty
amazing...
Afterwards, she decides to take me out somewhere special, as a brief
overview, Cata is from Colombia but her aunt married a Persian and
she used to stay with them as a youngster. They lived in San
Francisco and Cata's parents used to send her to the states to live with
them so she could learn English, needless to say, she picked up some of her
uncle's culture and wanted me to experience it.
She brought me to a place in Georgetown called Cafe Prince...it was about
2 am on a weekend and the place was packed, standing room only...Cata and I
managed to find a place to sit and we waited to be served for about 30
minutes...finally, after making contact with several of the employees we
went to the back and ordered some food, Cokes, and shisha.
Eventually a gentlemen brought out food and shisha/hookah...it was a long hot bottle with cool
water in the bottom, flavored tobacco on top and a slender hose to suck out
of...it was kind of weird for me because this bottle looked like a really
nice bong...however, everyone in the place was smoking it and cops were
coming and leaving so nothing illegal was going on, but it sure did feel
like it...
"Smoking a shisha is nothing like smoking a cigarette," a 71-year-old man said as he looked up from his Hookah."Cigarettes are for nervous people, competitive people, people on the run," he said. "When you smoke shisha, you have time to think. It teaches you patience and tolerance, and gives you an appreciation of good company. Shisha smokers have a much more balanced approach to life than cigarette smokers."
So we sat there eating our food and smoking shisha for about 2
hours...smoke was everywhere, the service was non-existent and people of
all ages and backgrounds were smoking and laughing...I am not a smoker so I
must admit I am not familiar with the nicotine feeling, but I have smoked
before and have to admit, shisha is ten times better...not only that, but
it's legal in that not-so-legal looking way...
That night was so much fun and so bizarre at the same
time...the place we went to was really strange in some ways...they had a
huge flat-screen TV playing Arabic videos, which was hilarious...and they
would not serve alcohol because it is against their religion...yet, you can
smoke this hippie pipe all night if you want to...hmmm??
So you say Cata's Aunt is a Persian cat? Dig it......
Posted by: Mr. Oi | 03/22/2004 at 10:24 PM