Woke up this morning, and thought, “Did I drunk-post about Jumper Cable Guy last night?”\u00a0 Yep, sure did.<\/p>\n
Heard a story last night I thought I’d pass on.\u00a0 A friend of mine was trying to get on the trolley on Main Street.\u00a0 The trolley was stopped, and he heard someone cussing up a storm inside.\u00a0 He looked in the windows, and the only person in there was the driver, so it had to be her.\u00a0 She was talking on her cell phone.\u00a0 He knocked on the trolley door, but she was yelling and cussing so loud she couldn’t hear him.\u00a0 She went to the other end of the trolley and started to turn it around, still talking in her phone.\u00a0 My friend knocked on the door.\u00a0 This time the driver saw him, and she screamed at him that he had to go to the trolley stop, and then she started cussing him.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior from a trolley driver?\u00a0 Some of them are very courteous and friendly, but there are some rude ones as well.<\/p>\n
The upcoming Midtown crawfish fest this Saturday at Overton Square reminds me of a story from a few years ago… the Madison Avenue trolley line was new at the time, and I figured I’d ride it to the end of the line at Cleveland and then walk the rest of the way.\u00a0 I didn’t see a trolley at Madison and Main near my apartment, so I figured I’d start walking down Madison and hop on a trolley when I saw one.\u00a0 However, I walked all the way to Bellevue before one appeared that was going my direction.\u00a0 Bellevue is only two blocks from the end of the line, so of course I wasn’t going to pay a dollar to ride to Cleveland.\u00a0 So I walked the entire way to the festival.\u00a0 An hour and five minutes.\u00a0 The trolleys are so undependable, although they look a lot better when compared to MATA’s horrible bus system.<\/p>\n
I hope my BFF is scheduled to work day shift at her job on Saturday.\u00a0 I don’t feel like putting up with her stupid ass at the crawfish festival.\u00a0 I still haven’t officially kicked her to the curb, but I’m close.\u00a0 I’m waiting for her to give me a reason – the straw that broke the camel’s back, that kind of thing.\u00a0 Last night I saw her and she actually acted like something resembling a normal human being, so I didn’t get the excuse I was looking for.\u00a0 I’m sure it’ll happen soon though.<\/p>\n
The crawfish fest I’m most looking forward to, though, is two weeks from today – the Rajun Cajun crawfish fest Downtown.\u00a0 I’m still irritated with myself from last year – a lot of people later told me, “I was at the crawfish fest, but I didn’t see you.”\u00a0 That was due to a 3-hour side trip to the Saucer and a 1-hour side trip to a nearby rooftop.\u00a0 I’m cutting all that crap out this year.\u00a0 No side trips.\u00a0 I’m staying at the festival the entire time it runs, from 12 to 6.\u00a0 I love street festivals because I get to see people I only see once or twice a year, at street festivals.<\/p>\n
On to last night’s beer report.\u00a0 When I scanned my UFO card in the Beer-Tron-A-Ton computer, I found that not only had the Saucer had not credited me with the missing beers I asked them to put back on, but they had failed to credit me with any of the beers I drank Friday either.\u00a0 By the end of the day they had put three back on, which is half of what needed to be put back, and that’s not counting the three I drank yesterday.<\/p>\n
Previous total:\u00a0 $1,060.50<\/p>\n
Beers 179, 180, and 181 by my count (and who even knows what the Saucer count is anymore.\u00a0 It damn well better be 177 as of end of day yesterday by the time I get this straightened out):
\nOld Rasputin $6.00
\nLa Fin Du Monde $6.50
\nRaspberries & Cream mixer (raspberry lambic + witbier) $5.00
\nTip:\u00a0 $17.50 x ~30% = $5.00
\nTotal:\u00a0 $22.50<\/p>\n
Grand total:\u00a0 $1,083.00<\/p>\n
Brunch at McGuinness at 11… Saucer at 1… Calhoun’s at some point in the evening.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 I get to see Amy and Lauren in the same day.\u00a0 Of all the ex-Saucer girls who now bartend elsewhere Downtown, those two are my favorites.<\/p>\n
Still astonished that Jumper Cable Guy came up and introduced himself.\u00a0 Now that the alcohol has circulated out of my system and I have a chance to think about it clearly, I don’t believe his story for a second.\u00a0 If he’s telling the truth I wish him well, but he’s told so many lies to so many people that I have every reason to believe he’s lying to me too.<\/p>\n
Time to throw on some clothes and head to brunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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