Today was a day full of shopping and overhearing things that were really out there, but I’ll get to that in a minute. First of all I would like to thank everyone who came out last night to our first Friday get together. While we didn’t make it too late of a night I was a little slow this morning ;)

I got up this morning and worked around the house for a bit and then Diane and I headed out to do some shopping and grab lunch. Sounds simple enough for a Saturday. We went to Town Square here in Las Vegas and had lunch at The Yard House. (Awesome French dip sandwich!) Here is where it starts getting strange. While we are eating our lunch, the restaurant is mostly empty, but soon people just start filing in and we were surrounded. A couple sits down next to us and they both order a beer. The guy suddenly realizes that he doesn’t have his debit card to pay and freaks out. “When did you have it last?” the girl asks. “At the ATM last night, I must have left it, I am going to go see if it is still there, I’ll be right back.” And the guy leaves to go check an ATM machine. Really? does he think that no one else has used the ATM machine at Town Square since he was there the night before?

Okay, I let that one slide. Diane and I continued shopping and then later that afternoon we stopped in to a small wine bar call The Grape. Diane ordered her favorite glass of wine and I ordered a St. Peter’s Cream Stout. Just down from where we were sitting was a couple that had to be on their first date. Since the place was empty we could hear every word of their conversation. At one point in their conversation, the guy says to the woman, “Well you see, I make really bad decisions.” This was followed up shortly after by, “I have a very bad personality.” Now I am no match maker or love guru, however, I have a feeling that this guy is having a rough spell in his dating career.

At one point Diane and I were laughing out loud over the conversation that we could hear going on, and we came to the conclusion that sometime when people are really nervous their “inside” voice starts talking out loud. We headed out from The Grape and headed back close to home. We stopped in at Target for some more holiday shopping and picked up a rat to feed Sable, Diane’s python.

We decided to stop for a quick snack and to watch the Oklahoma game at a bar called Bilbo’s and this is were the sound bites were out of control. At the end of the bar was a cowboy from Texas who had been into the sauce for a few hours and was all smiles. The conversation turned to talk about how to make the hottest chicken wings. The bartender won with a hot wing sauce that consisted of pickled jalapeno pepper juice, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, hot wing sauce, and almost every spice that they had in the kitchen. After he explained his creation the cowboy at the end of the bar pipes up and says, “Damn son, that will make you reach for an ice cream cone to wipe with in the morning.” I howled out loud with laughter.

Next it was half time of the game and Dr Pepper sponsors a contest where students can win a $100,000 scholarship. Once again the cowboy gets in the mix and says, “Look at that kid, he is like what has God done for me, Dr Pepper just game me a 100K.” God has nothing on great advertising.

Back at the house now watching the new Chris Rock stand up special. Talk about the great things people say, I highly recommend watching this.