Ok, so whenever I get the urge to go out on a weekend, I usually flock to Water St. It has been this way for the past 3yrs now. I don't find anything particularly exciting about the bars there, but it's just a matter of convience (since I live close on the eastside).

Most of my time is spent sitting on a stool sucking back an MGD in Mcgillycuddy's. I never worried much about the people who came in, because I had always known it to be a pretty laid back place. Lately though....something has changed. Now when I look up and see who's coming in, I cringe a little.  What stares back at me is a mouth (grill) full of gold teeth, big shiny bling things, pants pulled down well below the buttocks, and the faint smell of a little green plant that's used to achieve euphoria.

Now before I start getting dozens of emails calling me a racist, let me just say that I am a half black female (crisis averted). I just feel like the melancholy that once was Water St has turned into a run for your life before you get shot type thing. I don't generalize all african americans to be this way at all, but the ones who have been flocking to Water St seem to fit the bill of thug.

Not only are they loud and rude, they also feel like they can touch women whenever and wherever they feel like. Of course I'm prime meat to them (considering being half black). Most of the women who go to "Gilly"s" are white, so they bypass them and set there sights on me. I've had my back rubbed, my butt grabbed, henious things whispered in my ears, all while being subjected to derogatory name calling moments after their efforts are shot down.

I can honestly say that "Gilly's" will be just a casual acquaintance to me from now on, and that goes for the rest of the bars on Water St. This blog is not meant to demean, but merely to point out behavior that really needs to cease. Let people go out and enjoy themselves without trying to start a fight, and pull out guns!