The Mutiny Bar

Ron takes us back to the wild 1980s with another unforgettable business trip story.

While traveling for training on the East Coast, Ron’s buddy Tom had a habit of hitting late-night discos and pretending he was single—despite being very married. His ego just needed a little reassurance now and then.

On one trip, Tom insisted they drive over 90 miles to revisit a place called the “Mutiny,” convinced it would be just like the “ladies’ night” they’d experienced a couple months earlier—full of energy and attractive women.

But the moment they walked in, something felt off.

A rude waitress. Wall-to-wall guys. Not a single woman in sight. And one lone dancer putting on a very… expressive performance to disco music.

As the night went on, the bar filled with hundreds of men—and still no women.

At 10:00 PM, the band kicks in—and suddenly seven pint-sized Elvis impersonators in sequins strut out in a full-on conga line. Then it hits them: a glowing red teleprompter spells it out— “Alternative Lifestyle Night.” 

Tom’s over-the-top negative reaction was priceless. Ron, on the other hand, could barely breathe from laughing—especially knowing Tom had insisted on driving 90 miles for the experience.

A perfect case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time… and another classic Boomers on the Edge story.

• Adult themes and language.
• Boomers rating: Over the Edge.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think they're 60. Your hosts, Ken and Ron. Let's get started. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Mm-mm.

unknown 0:24

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Kind of a pulsating vibe. Yes. Very much so. I don't know why, but it's kind of making me think about that one time you told me that story. When you were out on the East Coast, I think Boston area. Yeah. Another business story. Oh, yeah. And you went to the bar, and I think you went to a place called like the Mutiny, the SS Mutiny area. It was like a boat inside. Yeah. A ship type theme. Yes, Nick. Why don't you tell us about that? All right. So, as you were saying, the uh mutiny, we'll call it. Uh, it was in the Boston area, actually in New Hampshire, I believe. Oh. And so we uh it was a very popular place in the 80s to go on the East Coast for business guys. Uh when we were out there training, we would go out, uh our headquarters of that company was on the East Coast. And so we would go there quite often, actually. We'd you know, we'd be out there week to week and so forth, um or month to month. And so and you'd go there on occasion. And I used to go with another buddy that we've talked about in some of the other stories. I think we called him, I don't know, it doesn't matter. We'll call him Tom again. Yeah. And he uh same same guy from the Australia story, if anybody on the beach on the topless beach. So, you know, he was famous for wanting to go to bars and act like he was single, even though he was married, but he really wouldn't do anything. Does this make any sense? There's some guys for their ego, they want to still believe that they can like a quasi-player. Like he can pull it in, you know. He can he he can pull them in, you know. And so it maybe he just needed some validation while he was away from his wife. Exactly. Well, he wasn't doing anything about it, but he would just have to go to the bar and act like he could still get them, you know. Yeah. So is that a typical thing for a salesman? Not as bad as this guy. Okay, so this guy had like a extra problem or something. I don't know. His ego wasn't apparently was he had to still know that he could still pull the women in. Maybe he had some low T or something like that. Matter of fact, on another occasion, that's this is not the story, but he he he went so far to to flirt with this woman, and she wanted to go farther somewhere with him, and then he goes, Oh, I can't do anything like that. I'm married. I'm not like that. What an idiot. It's like, what what is wrong with you? So anyway, this same guy, okay. We had been out there about two months before, and uh, we had gone to the mutiny, and it was uh I think it was Ladies' Night that night. Oh, of course, and oh my god, it was it was crazy. We would go and he would I would just really and there would maybe be some other guys with us sometimes and from our training class, let's say, and you know, we would just go there and watch the every all the action and it's it's uh and watch Tom operate, and watch him operate and whatever. So anyway, we went and like two months later, we're like, oh man, we gotta go. And it was like, I don't know, I were like on a Wednesday night, not a Thursday night, or I don't know what night it was, it doesn't matter, but it wasn't as the story we'll end up telling, not the same night, okay? And so we go and we drove because we were staying way far away. I honest to God, I'm not kidding. I'll bet you we drove 90 miles to get over to this place because he knew it was a sure thing, you know. It was gonna be great, you know, full of good looking women and so forth. And you were on a company expense. Yeah, yeah, a little bit. It didn't make sense. Yeah, we we were we were so it was just him and I though. We go, we drive all the way over there. You know, it's late at night, and you know, I don't know, just eight o'clock we got there, nine o'clock we got there, or something like that. Dark and everything. You gotta picture this place. It's like this big dance floor, and around it, like it's supposed to be the top of a boat.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Okay, picture that. It's got like a it's got like a range around it, like like that's the boat side, you know, like you jump off the boat. And does the wait staff are they dressed up like you know, sailors? Yes, they are. Yep, yes, they are. And so you had this dance floor going, and you had some music going, but they were supposed to have a live band that night. Okay. We get there, aren't a lot of people there. And so the waitress comes, we're ordering our beers and stuff, and usually they were real nice, you know. But this girl, she's a very nice-looking waitress, and she's just like rude, mean, like, like couldn't Well, she wasn't acting like a wench on a ship, was she? Well, or was she really mad at all? But she just had like a different vibe. Like, we had been there two months ago, and they were like so friendly, and like this night, she's like, Why am I working here and I don't want to be here tonight? And so it's like, God, this is weird. We order our beers and we're kind of complaining to each other about how she was acting, and so we're looking around, and there's like he's like, Tom will call him. Where's all the chicks? Where's all the chicks? There's no chicks, and it's like, there aren't, okay? There's a handful of guys in this place, like groups of guys, okay. Okay, and there's more guys coming in, no chicks, more guys coming in. Really? And the music's playing, but the band wasn't gonna play till like 10 or something. So is anyone noticing anything at this time? Well, we're like, where what happened to this place? This place was so great two months ago, you know? We're standing at some of those topper bar, like those top where tables, and they're like at the edge of the of the dance floor. Yeah, and you know, that's part of the bit. Some dude jumps on the dance floor, and there's some guys next to us, like pretty close to us, like actually trying to use the same table and stuff. The first thing that got weird was this guy's on the dance floor, and I know I'm not on video, but he's like taking his hands and putting them in front of his face, like he's a weird magician or something. Yeah, like oh, and he's kind of a you know, not a little sissy kind of looking guy, I hate to say kind of wafish, kind of wafish, and he's like looking at us like oh, hey, look, I'm dancing to the music. Like, why we don't magic hands, like we don't want to get away from us, okay? He's trying to impress you, yeah. And so then, right about the same time, and the place is starting to get more and more crowded. And these other guys at the other table are trying to come close to you. Well, the one guy's so close to Tom that he's saying to me, This dude is rubbing my shoulder. Oh no, he's like, What the hell is going on? Oh no, what is going on? I'm like, I don't know. And it wasn't that crowded yet. That this is well, it was starting to it was starting to get crowded that the fact that the that the um they had to use the same table. Yeah, okay. But it was like, I don't see any, I swear to god, I don't see any women. Okay. So it's getting more and more crowded, more and more crowded, more dudes. My buddy Tom's complaining, there's all dudes, and he's getting upset. And this dude's doing the other guy on the floor is like, ooh, ooh. Wait, was he happy that he was attracting a man? Maybe potentially. I have to admit, I think the guy was more interested in me. Look, big. You always did look good in your cat. He kept coming, he kept coming in on me. But okay. By the way, that reminds me of a story we'll have to have uh Randy tell about my pants at the UP, but that's another story. Oh yeah. Yeah, we'll have to have him tell that. Then I'm serious, it's getting crowded more and crowded. And they had one of these things on the wall, like in the disco ball? No, no, like it would like say, you know, it would be like a scrolling, like screen with words on it, and it would say, you know, like beers, buck ninety nine tonight only, you know, that kind of thing. And then scroll by, you know. Ladies' night. Yeah, it would say like ladies' nights on Friday, Thursday night. It's like, okay. And I kept, you know, I was on staring at it. I'd have looked at occasionally, you know. Then place is getting more and more crowded. Now it's really crowded. And what time is it? It's getting close to band time. It's band time, okay. 10-ish. And so still Tom's like, what the hell, man? There's no checks. What is going on? What is wrong with this place? And so then they get hey, and they turn the music down from the disco music they had been playing, you know, and they're like, and now our features banned tonight, and they hit the music like right at the same time, you know, like and it was like, get down tonight, and right then it's like, and they jump on stage and it's like little thruster and the rainbow boys, and oh boy, and and the music starts playing doo do do do do do do do do and a conga line of I guess we'll call them little elvises, yeah, okay, because we want to be politically correct and you know don't want to offend it. No, but little elvises that are less than five feet tall, okay, yeah, they're in the full white sequined outfits in a conga line going from right to not in the first the guys on the back end actually in the with the base like boom, boom, boom, like a pulsating kind of and the whole audience who looks very who the whole audience who looks um questi, I don't know, they're like little thruster, little thruster. And right about then, the two goofuses that we are realize. I look at that little thing that's scrolling by with the red, yes, and it says, Thursday nights are alternative lifestyle night. Oh, yeah, and we both turned to each other and said that your night was over? When you said that you clean that up, yeah, but yeah, but when these guys came out, you said they were like touching each other. Which guys? The little what the conga guys? The little thrusters and the rainbow boys and the rainbow boys were j dancing in a conga line. Okay, okay. And little, you know, make a little love. And they really got the audience. And Tom, who I would qualify as homophobic, yeah, had almost a heart attack right there.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

We're leaving.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Because he insisted on driving the 90 miles over to this place. And I'm like, I don't really think it's that great idea to drive over there. Do you think he really knew? No, he just wanted to experience that. No, you'd have to see. Are you sure? He no, yeah, he he was definitely homophobic. Okay, and it was actually kind of comical to me. So, so if you haven't figured out by now, we went on the alternative lifestyle night. And the reason there were no girls there was it was all men, yeah, and they're entitled to their nights. Absolutely. So, yeah, and I hadn't uh and uh I've told this story about a billion times to customers, like we were talking about. Yeah, and uh one of the major auto companies when I told this back, uh I literally told this when it happened in the 80s to some people at one of the major companies. They were so excited about this story that they kept trying to find on the internet they found tried to find the rainbow boys. Actually, I'm saying I'm I probably told this, I said 80s. It it happened in the 80s, but I told it in the 90s because the internet wasn't even available in the 80s, but um, they would not quit trying to find Little Thruster and the Rainbow Boys on the internet, they couldn't find them. Wow, so so let me get this straight. So, Tom he had to get the heck out of there. Oh, and it and you said it didn't bother you. No, I I mean uh yeah, it was I thought it was comical, actually. Okay, like would I go and seek out this evening? No, but do I have a good story to tell? And was it funny? The one guy was kind of trying to hit on you, so that must have been some validation. Yeah, so so it wasn't a bad night for you altogether. So no, no, no, but it would have been funny. That's as far as I would take it on a business trip.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

You get you need to know them a little bit better. Yeah, yeah. Well, anyways, that's a really funny story.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

So that's the story. Yeah. Hope you guys liked it. Yeah. Hey, thanks for listening. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.