By The Daily Freier Staff
Last Updated 9/6/2015 at 10:00 PM
Tel Aviv, Bograshov: Tel Aviv University graduate students Melissa P. and Kate D. have adopted “The Right of Return” in their ongoing dispute with a bracelet bar on Bograshov near Ben Yehuda. The women’s ordeal began earlier this evening around 8:30 PM local time when they arrived at the establishment, purchasing the ’79 Shekel Red Bracelets’, allowing an unlimited amount of house wine, draft beer, and mixed drinks. After spending several hours at the establishment getting, as one bystander noted, “hella wasted”, the ladies departed the bar. It is at this point that the narratives of the protagonists in this ordeal diverge, with bar hostess Anat L. claiming that the ladies voluntarily left their seats and set out toward Dizengoff Street, while Melissa and Kate insisting that they were forcibly evicted from their land seats and cast out of the bar “for like no reason”. The Daily Freier spoke with Anat for her perspective on this ongoing tragedy.
“Those two were out of control, but I guess the manager likes them. Anyway, I told them that after 10 PM there is a noise ordinance, and if they want to stay outside they need to keep it down. Well that led to an eye roll or two. I had to go back to talk with them two more times. On the last trip over there, Kate just said “F– this, we’re out, and they stormed off….. Of course they came back like 30 minutes later because, and I quote, “the other place sucked”. But by that time newcomers had settled at their table. And to just let them back in would totally disrupt the current demographics of the bar……Welcome to Israel.”
The Daily Freier was also able to speak with Melissa and Kate for their side of the story. Melissa shared her perspective; “Whatever the hostess told you is total crap. She hates us. She basically ran us off, and then turned around and said that we left on our own accord. I mean yeah we left, but only because we knew that our friend Ran’s shift starts at 11 and that if we came back he would take care of us at the bar. But when we came back, our chairs were occupied. The whole thing was a disaster……wait, I should know this…..how do you say ‘disaster’ in Arabic???”
Kate was equally adamant that an injustice had occurred; “We bought these bracelets, and they’re good all night. Our right of return is inalienable and cannot simply be negotiated away.” When the Daily Freier asked Kate what kind of repercussions might occur if their wishes were not respected, she noted “If they think they can just get away with this shit, I will boycott them forever……or at least until next Wednesday. That’s old school hip-hop night.”
