So, I’m eating some sliders and drinking a couple of beers at an Applebee’s in Appleton, Wisconsin.\u00a0 As I’m alone I sit at the bar.\u00a0 I did not scan the room for idiots first.<\/p>\n
Behind me, occupying a large clujster of tables is a group of guys and girls, probably mid-twenties, numbering over six.\u00a0 I’m reminded immediately of this guy:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/10\/01\/mikie-sawyer-punches-applebees-customer_n_5916138.html<\/p>\n
He stood up what he believed and it cost him.<\/p>\n
This group has clearly drank their way to victory through the second half of the Packers game.<\/p>\n
Tonight, I was holding my tongue.\u00a0 I’m on a business trip.\u00a0 I can’t do what needs to be done.\u00a0 Luckily someone else did it.\u00a0 A few minutes after they moved from a table to the bar, the loudest guy who is busy “Fucking this, and God-damning that” is told to knock it off by a woman behind him.\u00a0 Another persons seconds the vote.<\/p>\n
The girl with the guy says, “What?\u00a0 I don’t think it is that bad.”<\/p>\n
To which, before I can stop myself, say, “That’s because you don’t set your standards very high.”<\/p>\n
“Fuck you!”, she says to me.<\/p>\n
“Now\u00a0that’s an honest effort towards\u00a0raising those standards, but no,”<\/p>\n
Before she could figure out that I’d insulted both her and her boyfriend, the manager escorted them to the door.<\/p>\n
I paid my tab and went back to my room…still employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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