Flossie's Bar & Grill

I've passed this place on numerous occasions on my way for last minute work deadlines in order to catch the last call for Fedex which is about 1/2 a mile up the road.  Many's a time I've been so stressed out that the thought of a nice cold beer after a long day or two at the office almost made me stop off here for a swift one, but I've always had to get my butt home to the kids.

Well, tonight I met a fellow Yelper and really close friend at the Rustic Inn Crabhouse down the street for her annual crabfeast and afterwards suggested that we take it next door to check it out, just to take one for all you Yelpers and give this place the once over.

Surprisingly, it was a pretty cool little place.  Like a scaled down Lost Weekend, only with a less hipster and a lot older crowd who all seemed to know each other like family.  It was like a ZZ Top convention was going on in there with more long frizzy beards that you could throw a comb at (and I guess the humidity didn't help much either).

They have two pool tables and when we were there, a live band playing classic rock.  Only three beers on tap that I could see (Bud, Yuengling and - I think -  Bud Light) but had other bottled beers (can't go wrong with ordering a Heineken right?)  

Not the kind of place you would be ordering something exotic with fruit in it, though they have a menu that says they do serve breakfast from 7a.m.   It was pretty well swept and clean for what I would call a dive bar.  Smoking IS allowed indoors.

The kinda place you could while away an afternoon with a bunch of good friends that you don't need to make conversation with, shooting pool and/or sitting outside with a cold bottle of beer, watching the lunatics driving along I-95 across the way.  I get the feeling that none of the guys in there tonight ever rushed anywhere a day in their lives!

Did that loud semi intoxicated guy point at me and call me a "Queer?" Well, no he didn't, though it sure sounded like he did. Others mistook it for that and it was close enough to drop the otherwise loud jovial biker crowd into a state of dead silence with expectations of what would be, for Flossie's, never before known acts of violence.

Fact was, however, that the words spoken were in French, uttered by a couple from Quebec who, when noticing my leather attire, pointed and said "En CUIR belle," or something close that. As the French word for leather is "cuir," it sounded a lot like they said "queer," but was meant as a statement complimentary to my leather attire; having absolutely nothing to do with what some at first thought was a statement concerning the possibilities of my sexual preference.  

Yes, Flossie's is a "biker bar" but not a heavy biker bar. They don't have any fights here, not even an argument, or at least none that I've ever heard about. It's just a pleasant place where a bunch of fun loving, mostly elderly, as are just about all of the Harley bike riders, hang out for fun (mostly on Sunday's), a few laid back beers and a good time. Besides, as we all know, no one would be speaking French in a heavy biker bar.

This is a biker bar, but don't let the tough exterior fool you..the people inside are nice, polite, and friendly.   They bartender was excellent and very accomodating, good people, relaxed, casual, so much better than the fake club scene, live band was ROCKIN', free buffet....I'd definitely go back!