Asshole Bartender

So Michael and I went to check out a brewpub in south Scottsdale called Papago Brewing. The draft selection is decently varied, but it's the stock in the coolers that really sets this place apart. You can buy anything from the cooler to drink onsite or to take home and there have to be over two hundred selections. They had of our favorites, Rogue's Ten Thousand Brew Ale, that is quite hard to find because it was a limited brew. While we were drinking our draft beers (I was drinking a Palm Rodenbach and Michael had a Rogue Imperial Stout) Michael asked the bartender how much the Ten Thousands were and he said that they were $15 and he didn't really like them. Who asked him?! So when we finished our beers, we plucked five 26-ounce bottles of Ten Thousand from the cooler (their entire cold stock). The bartender prices one and comes back to tell us that they are actually $21 each. Michael says, "Okay, I still want them." The bartender asks if we were going to drink them or give them away. So Michael tells him that we're going to do both.
So then the bartender says, "Oh, I think it's a lousy beer."
Oh my gosh! Again, who asked for his opinion? No one! Clearly, we've stated we like the beer and we've just purchased 5 big bottles. We're both fairly avid beer drinkers who have tried a variety of beers numbering at least one hundred over our lifetime combined and don't need the opinion of some dopey bartender in a strip mall brewery telling us that one of our favorite beers from one of our favorite breweries is lousy. Asshole.

Will You Audition to Be My Friend

So I was just flipping around the TV, literally moments ago, and I stopped on My Super Sweet 16 on MTV. I always give this show a few minutes when I find it. The ridiculous premise is that 16-year olds of the rich and famous plan these completely over-the-top parties that cost more than most people's weddings. It's highly entertaining to watch the parents give their kids whatever they want and to watch the sad people that organize the parties take orders from these bratty kids. Two things that every show has in common is that the 16-year old always gets a car, usually costing at least $50K, and they always want to perform at their party. Most of them have no talent and no personality; it is highly amusing to watch the other kids fall over themselves just to be part of the whole spectacle.

So this particular episode totally crossed a line that I had not yet witnessed. The terrible 16-year old made her actual friends audition to be VIPs at her party! Who would audition to be someone's friend? Sad teenagers with low self esteem. I had hope for two of her friends that refuse to audition.

But then, they asked, "Can we still come to the party?"