In which I follow through on my threat to blog a bar conversation.
Brett called me after work yesterday and we met for cocktails, where Truckunsafe gave me shit about ignoring him and playing the Megatouch (I was using up Sean’s remaining quarters, he’d told me to and I’m nothing if not obedient) and then when that ploy didn’t work, he gave me shit about blowing bubbles in my cocktails.
“I’m so blogging this,” I told him.
“Yeah, you’re gonna sit there and ignore people, and then write about it on your blog,” he sneered. I believe he was making some point about my habit of going to public places and then being totally unsocial. (See Megatouch, reading books, and playing games on my PPC in bars.)
I finished the Megatouch game and then at his prompting asked him how he was, and he revealed he’d bowled a monster game the night before, I think he bowled a 268 or something. I was all proud of him.
“Did you ever think we’d be thirty-something talking about bowling league in the bar?” I asked.
“I always wanted to bowl league,” he replied. “I just never thought I’d mean it.”
Anyway, I digress. Yes, I blow bubbles in my cocktails through the straw. I do this to stir them up. I’ve always done it. And I’ve had bartenders and patrons in bars across the country give me shit about it. What are you doing? Why are you blowing bubbles in your cocktail? What, are you four years old?
I do not care if people think it’s weird because it works. It’s better than drinking all the booze out of the bottom and having nothing but mix and ice left at the end!
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My brain kept replacing the title and words “Blowing bubbles” with “blowing buddies”….. I can’t stop…
Anyway, I am sure you’d be cute when you blow bubbles to make the drink even. But you don’t do that for cosmopolitans, do ya? Happy drinking!
Mush- blowing bubbles in your drinks is so cute. Do you make sounds. Bloop bloop blap blap bloop? Making fish faces would probably add to the effect.
So Much, is a 268 in bowling good or bad?
Gregg
Bowling scores – 300 is a perfect game, no?
Creative you are, blowing bubbles to mix your drink. That’s Original in a similar way to 007’s insisting that his martinis be “shaken, not stirred”. Supposedly, “shaking” the martini “bruises” the gin. He should’ve blown bubbles too. (hehe!)
Isn’t “Bubbles” the name of one of Michael Jackson’s chimps?
[Blame that thought on Shigeki’s earlier comment]
I think I’m going to start blowing bubbles in my mixed drinks too. It’s hip! It’s hot! It’s trendy!
First time to your blog, but had to chime in…
I blow bubbles in my drinks too, for the exact same reason. Those tiny little straws are no good at actually moving the liquid around for proper mixing, you need to blow bubbles or stick your finger in there.
Think about it, which looks sillier, an adult swishing their dirty finger in their drink and licking it, or discretely blowing bubbles in their drink to mix it?