I think the true highlight of the trip was the night I spent drawing at the Octagon Bar Clarence Hotel Dublin. It's the Hotel/Bar that U2 owns. I am a HUGE U2 fan. They were my first concert, I have seen them  8-9 times etc etc. So it was neat for me to hang out in their place.

I am sitting there drawing, drinking my WOODFORD RESERVE (couldn't find it anywhere else in Ireland) being very quiet. In the bar there was  a group of 7 or 8  of the meanest,  loudest most obnoxious attorneys I have ever seen in my life. They were pompous, crooked and nasty. The Managing Director was openly pawing at one of his female attorney's. She was playing into him when nobody was around. They were all being so mean and nasty about their present clients…by name. They were talking  about how they were going to make their clients go a certain way in a case which would mean  more $$$ to their firm. "She has been waiting 3 years she can wait another 2 or three months…that lunatic will settle when I tell her to settle"   It was so bad the bartenders were complaining to me about how they wished they would leave. But the bartenders could not do anything.  I  am in Dublin... a major city where NOBODY KNOWS ME, my flight was leaving in 8 hours and I have already had 3 or 4 drinks. I told the bartenders I will handle them.

A woman from the group approached to order a drink and check out what I was drawing.  I showed her the picture then I very nicely told her how "My auntie told me your firm was filled with such nice people. Just the other day she  pointed out ..that man right there (I pointed to the biggest jerk of the bunch.) Auntie said and I quote "oh look Pat there is Peter, he is the nice man from that law firm who is helping with some of the  family business... I really like him" 

This witch almost had a stroke standing right in front of me. She started shaking and said "good thing we did not say anything bad." I replied "Madame I have been sitting here quietly drinking my fine Woodford Reserve drawing my little pictures, lets not go down this road., The entire bars knows exactly what you all said, who you said it about. The entire bar has been watching you and your boss all over each other as your coworkers trash your clients. We all have been listening to it for over an hour." Please do not make it worse by lying. In America the saying is you  just got busted! If I were you I would start dealing with that fact first"

She tried to get info like my aunts name. I made up the name Auntie Ann like the pretzel place. After she said that even attorneys are allowed to blow off steam I told her "I don't know your laws here in Ireland as well as I know the American laws…but what you all did is cause for disbarment in America. How do you think your clients are going to like to hear how you consider them crazy losers that you all laugh at. What your firm did is something I have never seen in all my years. …. Auntie Ann will be so so disappointed and hurt"  I hope you are happy.

They paid their bills and all ran out into the hallway trying to figure out what they said, about who ..who said this, who said that, I did not say that, you said this…etc.…Then I hear " I am telling you right now DO NOT go back in there…leave the f-cking umbrella. Lets get out of here right now!!"

Not only did it feel good to punch some bullies in the nose….I did not buy another drink in that bar for the rest of the night.  It was all on the house.  Some professional hockey player said to me" I want to shake your hand, I have never seen anything like what you just did in my  life nice job!!"

 I figure there is no better way to end the Ireland trip.