Friday, 28 July 2006
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Got fitted for my tux today. I’m always reluctant to do such things, as I keep connecting the tux fitting with the tux pick-up. Oy, the tux pick-up. It’s such a pain. The tux never fits right, and while you’re noticing that the pants only go down to the top of the ankle, and the coat sleeves only goes to your elbows, the clerk is telling you that it looks perfect and cannot fathom how you see a problem with the fit. You almost accept the tux since this person will probably be the same person to mark up the tux to be tailored. And you need to pick it up the next day; never mind having a million things to do that day.
Yeah, so I already don’t know what to do with myself. Although, I guess I said that yesterday. Today is worse since all I had to do today was the aforementioned tux fitting. Big day. I forget what people do when they have time off. It always happens to me at the end of finals, I pace the apartment, but then a few days into it I start to waste the days away without little notice. Should probably get on applying for jobs. But, darn it, I want a few days off.
Was also thinking about purchasing the wedding gift for the Fiancée (aren’t I already giving her a ring? Actually, two rings (the engagement ring and the wedding band). Not that I’m complaining, it was just something I wasn’t aware of until a few weeks ago), but since we don’t have any car I trust to go further than a couple miles, that was out. The annoying thing is that I don’t even know if what I’m thinking of giving her is what I’ll be giving her.
Hmm, this really is starting to be “blah blah blah.” Well, what do you expect from someone who just took the Bar and now has nothing to do? Not much to talk about except the minutiae of my non-existent day.
Went to Brit’s Pub for dinner after the Bar on Wednesday. Interesting place, quite “The Local” like. I really just don’t like Nicollet Mall much anymore. It’s just too yuppy, and the wait-staff is very cranky and expectant of gratuity for even crappy service. I was at the Local a few months ago for happy hour with a friend. I got there 10 minutes after he did, and 10 minutes before happy hour ended. He still had not had wait service. So he went to get menus while I went up to the bar to put an order in before happy hour ended.
You’d think the bartender never served anyone who wasn’t sitting at the bar before. He told me to wait for the waitress. I told him that we had been, and we had received no service yet, and said that we wanted to put the order in. He gave me a very quick and slight “fine, what do you want.” I ordered two beers, one Guinness, one not. “Okay, that’s $7.50.” As you know, Guinness takes awhile to sit before it can be fully poured. So he gives me the one beer, gives me the change, and I stay at the bar with cash in hand, waiting to the end of the service in order to tip. He gets angry, grabs the Guinness, and tells me that he needed to see ID, and that he had thought I was of age, but since I didn’t have any class (because I didn’t tip) I must have been under age. My response was obvious, that I was just waiting to see how the service was. Obviously, not so good. Anyway, he comes up later with a quasi-apology explaining that he was angry because he had done us a favor (by him, being a bartender, serving us at the bar?!).
After that, I basically refuse to go to The Local ever again. It’s not an Irish pub. It’s not even close. It’s a quasi-Irish pub housed in a warehouse. As for Irish pubs in the Twin Cities, haven’t really found any that are very good. Although, I do enjoy Kieran’s much more than any other. I still find it hard to believe that the same people who own The Local also owns Kieran’s, but I guess The Local is the way it is due to it being on Nicollet Mall.
As for Brit’s… I wasn’t there long enough to truly form and opinion. I can’t imagine the waitstaff and clientele have very different attitudes from the rest of the people on Nicollet Mall. I do know that from the time our drinks were empty to the time we got the bill was about 30 minutes, so that does say something.
And now I’m complaining about slow wait service. I am getting old.
Oh, a rerun of the Daily Show is on that I hadn’t seen before…
Cheers,
C.
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