Fun Gig Story

Since I am no longer doing any gigs, I thought I would share a fond memory. It was New Years-98/99, I think. It was the downtown Adams Mark hotel. Push Down & Turn with a rented PA from Acme Audio. We did the normal 4+ hours of music. The bass player, who is one of my best friends to this day, and I were finished loading the frieght elevator with gear. As we were about to close the door and ride up, a banquet/kitchen staff member walks by with a banquet tray FULL of hot wings. She asks if we want-of course we do! She says keep the tray.
We agreed that since we didn't have a beer with us-or any napkins-that we would wait until the ride home in the bus to start on the massive pile of wings. The ancient elevator starts its slow,creaky start upwards. about 30 feet into the climb, a loud crack-the lights go out and the elevator slams to a halt. Shit. Well, i'm sure the maintenence guys are aware so it should only be a few minutes. I pull out the mag-lite and start to eyeball the tray-o-wings.
Tay looks at me and decides that the wings can't be that hot for general public consumption, so we can eat a few. I dig in. We're in the dark eating our third wing when it becomes apperent why these were left over- they are burning a hole in our intestines. The only thing to do-remember, nothing to drink-was to keep eating.
We actually made it through about half the pan when we realize it's been about 45 minutes. The pile of bones is starting to overcome the uneaten wings.
About that time we hear a large CLACK-and the light came on with the movement of the elevator. We then get our first look at each other and we have wing hot suace covering our faces and hands.
When the door opened to the 4 other guys the look they gave us was priceless-all we did was yell-"Water!Water!" We ran outside to the snowbank and threw the fresh 3 inches of snow all over our faces and mouth. Thank god digi cameras were still a rarity then.