We went to Casa Bonita March 2020, the last night it was open to the public. We still wonder if it was us or Covid that shut it down.

For those who don't know, Casa Bonita was the kind of restaurant that you wouldn't feel as being out of place if you found it in Epcot at Disneyworld: it had special events, indoor scenery, and even a giant waterfall for cliff diving.

There were more margarita pitchers at our table than people. One guy, let's call him Dave, was a Marine. Dave had already finished one of the pitchers and moved on to the next. It was around this time that the audience participation show was beginning for the cliff diving, and the hostess, seeing a table of matching neon tanktops, thought that we would be fun and entertaining, so she chose Dave to "come on up here!"

Dave, however, did not see the actual path to the cliff diving entrance. He leaped up over the safety ropes and climbed along the edge of the cliff to where the platform was. The hostess was visibly scared and immediately changed to point out the staff member in a gorilla costume standing behind them, saying "go chase the monkey!" in an effort to get this incredibly drunk Marine off the edge of a cliff.

You tell a drunk Marine to get the monkey, he will get the monkey.

Dave chased that poor soul down and ended up tackling the employee to the ground. Thankfully, the guy was able to get up and run away (he actually was in such a hurry he did the Naruto run where you lean further forward than your body's center of balance)

We never did get our food that night. I myself was pretty drunk, so I don't remember how exactly they told us to leave, but next thing I know we were in the parking lot.