The Pink Shoe Diaries

last night, Adam and i went to a brewery dinner/BBQ at Rock Bottom in Braintree. i've been to a few of these brewery dinners before, and it is a great way to sample new beers, eat some fabulous food and meet new people. they were serving bbq chicken, pork, ribs, salmon and sausages with all the usual bbq sides and all kinds of beer from hefeweizen to black cherry wheat. these are a good deal because you pay $40 for a ticket to the event and this usually includes a 4-5 course meal and at least 5 different beers (or more, if you are sneaky). from now until next summer Rock Bottom will be having an event like this once a month! in September there will be an Oktoberfest beer and cheese tasting, which i will mention again as it gets closer and invite you all to come with ;-)

anyway, last night the beers were great and the food was excellent but the company was slightly lacking. we were seated next to a pair of older couples, both in their mid forties. i knew right away i disliked them because the women were both drinking wine. hello? its a brewery dinner. one is meant to drink brews. the brewmaster at Rock Bottom throws these events to let the public get to know his new beers and i think it's rude to not even TRY them. and we all know i love me some wine. i just think it's ridiculous to spend $40 on a dinner ticket that INCLUDES 5 beers and then spend $7 a glass on wine all night. especially when you are putting away the wine like these ladies were. especially when you grab the brewmaster by the elbow and demand some ice for your chardonnay.

and don't even get me started on their husbands. i know from their EXTREMELY LOUD CONVERSATION that they 1) don't like gay people except for the ones on Will and Grace, 2) hate democrats and 3) think if you go to Thayer Academy (like all their kids apparently do) you are some kind of genius. first of all, the gay and democrat thing already renders you an idiot in my eyes, and the Thayer thing? pretty much ANYONE can get in there. it's one of the only private schools around that has 3 levels of classes, and it's considered by every other private school in the state to be the "public school of private schools". so just because you are paying $25,000/year for an education doesn't make it a good one. ask my parents, they made me go to Thayer for a year. and it's certianly innapropriate to talk really loudly at a public event about how everyone who goes to public schools is "trash". and to be honest you are making very clear just who the trash is. especially when you joked about your son's drunk driving accident (in which i understand he seriously hurt someone) by saying "at least we know he's popular". ick.

i wanted to say something (you know i did) but one of the guys actually works in my industry and i have talked to him on the phone several times. i haven't actually met him, but i don't think an appopriate way to meet would be for him to recognize me as the drunk bitch who reamed him out at Rock Bottom, while we are sipping cocktails at a company event, you know?

at least it is good blog material.