Cliquish. That sums up Fast Eddie's in a word. The décor is contemporary warehouse complete with a metal "lift" door. The owner spends most of his time at "whatever" a far nicer and larger bar down the street playing video games and lets his staff of two females pretty much run the place. I'm not a bar owner but I'm pretty sure that's not a good idea. Also the one picture on Google Reviews is far more "representative" of his place. Fast Eddie's is in a tiny industrial park. I don't even recognize the pictures on Yelp lol! Anyway:
Eddie claims to own the last of the "ice houses" as they are called. The beers are $2.50 (about the cheapest in town) and you can bring your own liquor and for about the same price one of his girls will sell you a glass of soda to mix with it. The only problem with this concept is that it brings in the clique.
They're generally real drinkers and smokers, on a budget, whites only of course, and not particularly well educated yet they will give you their opinion on politics, religion and just about anything else whether you want it or not lol.
The beer is generally cold enough but bring cash; if you run a credit tab you have to drink at least four brews (enough to render most men legally drunk unless you eat with it and they don't serve food) or you will be presented a duck for each beer of four you don't drink.
I used to come in once in a while (with cash) I hate that duck thing as I have no where to keep toy ducks lol. However one of their long time regulars told Eddie his version of a verbal altercation between he and I; that could have ended up outside and I was invited not to come back for a time. That was roughly two years ago.
I was then invited back by Eddie a few weeks ago because I see him often enough at "whatever"; and was coming in for my seventh time (I was a model of politeness and on my best behavior) when I was told by one of Eddie's girls that on of the "clique" had suggested that on the previous occasion (a birthday party as I recall) that I had absconded with two of his "ducks" net worth in U.S. currency $5 and I was barred again. WTF! First off:
1. People who live in $300,000 dollar homes don't shoplift anything.
2. U.S. Patent Holders with advanced degrees in Math, Physics and Engineering don't either.
3. People with a six figure salary history who retire at 49 don't lift toy ducks they cant stand.
4. I've got to quit "slumming"! I like ordinary people but you just can't take them anywhere lol! read more