Hen night to remember after karaoke let-down

Jun 10 2009 by Gordon Robertson, Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser

IT’S the day before your hen night and you have been looking forward to it for ages.

Your party-loving pals have got their outfits ready - tutus and plenty of pink.

A bus has been booked to take everyone to Glasgow.

It’s a karaoke bus so the lassies can have a good laugh, singing their heads off and carrying on.

Everything is set.

But then the phone rings and it’s the owners of the bus telling you the karaoke is broken and your plans are up in the air.

That’s what happened to Debbie Speirs from Chapelhall.

The 27-year-old hair stylist was at work in Gemini, a busy Coatbridge salon, when she was told the bad news.

She said: “They phoned me up the day before to say the karaoke machine wasn’t working and I thought ‘what am I going to do?’ because everyone was really looking forward to it.

“I was busy at work but I had to get the yellow pages out and phone other bus companies. I couldn’t get anything and I thought my hen night would be ruined.

“I was stressed because I had so little time to get anything else organised and I didn’t want to let anyone down.”

Eventually through a contact with Swift taxis, bride-to-be Debbie managed to book a mini-bus at the last minute and the hen night was saved.

Fourteen friends from Airdrie met up at The Robert Hamilton pub in the town’s Bank Street for a night to remember.

After turning a few heads with their outlandish outfits, they crammed into a bright yellow mini-bus and headed off to Glasgow where they went on a pub crawl.

Relieved Debbie said: “It all worked out well in the end. The driver of the mini bus was a good laugh, he had the music on and we were all singing along.

“We went to Yates’s, Walkabout and Jumpin’ Jaks in Glasgow and it was great.

“I had a brilliant hen night and the mini-bus was there to take us all home safely.

“I was so worried that the girls would have to get taxis and put up with the hassle of trying to get home.

“But thankfully it all went well.”

With the pressure off, Debbie can now look forward to her big day when she marries fiance Harry White at St Aloysius Church in Chapelhall on Saturday, June 20.

She won’t need the karaoke bus that day and her pals have assured her the tutus are staying at home.