So, I’m eating some sliders and drinking a couple of beers at an Applebee’s in Appleton, Wisconsin.  As I’m alone I sit at the bar.  I did not scan the room for idiots first.

Behind me, occupying a large clujster of tables is a group of guys and girls, probably mid-twenties, numbering over six.  I’m reminded immediately of this guy:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/mikie-sawyer-punches-applebees-customer_n_5916138.html

He stood up what he believed and it cost him.

This group has clearly drank their way to victory through the second half of the Packers game.

Tonight, I was holding my tongue.  I’m on a business trip.  I can’t do what needs to be done.  Luckily someone else did it.  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.  Another persons seconds the vote.

The girl with the guy says, “What?  I don’t think it is that bad.”

To which, before I can stop myself, say, “That’s because you don’t set your standards very high.”

“Fuck you!”, she says to me.

“Now that’s an honest effort towards raising those standards, but no,”

Before she could figure out that I’d insulted both her and her boyfriend, the manager escorted them to the door.

I paid my tab and went back to my room…still employed.