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Friday, March 30, 2018
We are well rested and ready to start our first full day
in San Antonio. No drive-bys in the
neighborhood to keep us out, and in fact, no real outside noise to bother us at
all. We put Hopps in one of the isolated
bedrooms so that his snoring wouldn’t keep us up, and that plan worked to
perfection. As you will see, all of our
plans did not work out as well, starting with our failure to purchase coffee at
the store. Oh well, I am sure that we
shall find some somewhere, hopefully …
6:04 – Pepster wakes.
6:54 – Sinickal wakes.
7:11 – Hopps wakes.
7:24 – Racecar calls
Pepster to talk about their respective days.
Since she knows Pepster is going golfing she reminds him that since
Sinickal and Hopps play a lot more than Pepster does, “don’t bet any large money”.
7:34 – Tony wakes.
8:19 – During a
discsussion with Hopps, Tony proclaims, “Oh, that is what hot yoga is”.
8:21 – A precursor,
Hopps has 2 degrees from Boston College, but also has a love/hate relationship
with his alma mater. He comes out of his
room wearing a Boston College golf shirt and a Boston College pullover. Sinickal asks, “Did your wife tell you that
you had to start liking BC again?” Hopps
just hangs his head.
9:05 – Off to the
course by way of breakfast.
9:13 – Run into Café Blanco
for coffee. Parked outside is a 1972
Caprice station wagon!
9:17 – For some reason,
Lil’ Wayne’s Mrs. Officer plays
throughout Café Blanco.
9:27 – Tony runs over a
speed bump at a higher rate of speed than he should have. The speed bump was the same color as the
asphalt of the street. At least the “speed
bump” sign was behind a tree.
9:31 – Arrive at
Historic Brackenridge Park Golf Course – former home of the Texas Open and the
Texas Golf Museum. A statue of Harvey
Penick welcomes us.
10:04 – At the first
tee. Since Tony isn’t playing, we are
given a fourth, and are told that he “has a lot of course knowledge. Mike joins us, and he can PLAY.
Radio Silence during
the round as we play golf, tell jokes and generally just crucify each other.
So, this track is a
really nice course. It appears to be
extremely narrow, but is actually pretty forgiving. We had some birdies, a lot more birdie
chances, but the hole placements were obnoxious; several were placed right on
criss-crossing spines that dropped off in every direction. Sinickal won, but didn’t play as well as he
liked, Hopps made a run on the back nine
and Pepster stayed close through 12.
Tony enjoyed his time away from us.
14:46 – Off to
Riverwalk.
14:56 – Park at the top
floor of the parking garage. We find the
sign that tells us to “Take Stairs to Elevator.” Probably not ADA compliant.
15:01 – In response to
our request for a beer to go because we want to go get some food, the Beertender
at the Hofbrau Bier Garten tells us that we should stay because “I will feed
you beer”.
15:11 – Random guy
yelling at the tour boats on the river, screaming some combination of, “You can’t
even speak English, you come here and you can’t speak English, and I speak 100
languages. We try to pass him as quickly
as possible.
15:12 – Sinickal – to Hopps
– “He [referencing the guy above] is not doing a lot for our race.
15:13 – A city worker
apologizes to the group in front of us for having to put with that guy’s
behavior. Worker does not apologize to
us.
15:15 – And Kansas takes
the early lead.
15:20 – Hopps brings an
outside beer. Into Rita’s on the River.
15:39 – County Line
BarBQ.
15:40 – County Line’s
specialty is 30 oz. margaritas.
15:41 – Hopps, Pepster
and Sinickal order the specialty, Tony orders a Dos Equis because he is
driving.
15:44 – The margaritas
are served in a chilled mixing tin, to keep them extremely cold. Pepster quotes Stuart Scott and exclaims, “And
the Good Lord says you gots to rise up!”
Hopps – who has a Bachelors and a Masters in theology, asks, “Didn’t he
go down today?”
15:47 – A little girl
walks up to the bar to ask for the wifi.
Bartender tells her that they don’t have wifi. Hopps tells the bartender, “You know that you
just broke her heart.” Bartender’s
response, “I don’t care.”
15:54 – The bartender,
not seemingly amused by our witty banter, reminds us that “You started with a
dead Jesus joke.” Sinickal’s retort “He’ll
be back on Sunday”.
16:21 – A guy at the
end of the bar left his wallet in his hotel room. He leaves his phone as “collateral”. He actually returns. Sinickal noting his return says, “I just
assumed it was a burner phone.”
16:22 – Bartender responds
to a question posed by Sinickal with a “Yes sir”. Sinickal, “Please say you called me sir as a
sign of sexiness.” Bartender’s response,
“No! I call my dad sir”.
16:27 – While discussing
Southwestern Central’s chances to recruit some of the Montverde and Findlay Prep
players from the game on tv, we find out that the bartender’s full time job is
working compliance for the NCAA. She
tells us that she has never been to our school.
Hopps responds, “Well, no one has”.
16:37 – We ask the
bartender her name. She tells us “Amber”. Somehow, Hopps hears “Cinnamon”.
16:38 – 17:00 – We keep
calling Amber, “Cinnamon”.
17:01 – Already discussing
our next meal and the topic turns to some of our favorite foods. We naturally assume Hopps’ favorite is Asian
fare. He responds, “No, sometimes I eat
Italian.”
17:05 – The bartenders
are now calling each other cinnamon and brown sugar.
17:21 – Coyote Ugly.
17:47 – A couple walks
into Coyote Ugly holding hands. Tony
asks Hopps if they were holding hands.
Hoppss replies, “Shhhhhh”.
17:48 – Bartender asks
where we are all from. SInickal points
at Pepster and says, “Mar-a-Lago”.
18:04 – While trying to
egg on the crowd, the bartender implores the crowd to scream. She looks at Hopps and asks, “Don’t you know
how to scream?”. Sinickal retorts, “He
just did!”
18:25 – See a sign that
says “Fantexass”.
18:28 – First play of
Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic.
18:30 – Bouncer has BMF
on the back of his shirt. There is only
one thing that can mean.
18:32 – A Kansas fan
jumps on the bar to dance with the bartenders.
Sinickal notes that “Kansas is no longer in the lead”.
18:54 – Sinickal inquires
if we are “missing the women’s game”.
All answer, “Yes”.
Side note – as it turns
out the women’s semifinals were phenomenal.
Two overtimes, one last second shot, one HUUUUUUUUGE upset.
19:01 – Bartender calls
Tony “Mr. Clean”.
19:24 – An epic game of
Rock, Paper, Scissors between Pepster and Sinickal for first draft rights,
since Pepster and Sinickal always draft “something”. Pepster emerges victorious after 9 straight ties.
19:36 – Sinickal asks, “When
did San Antonio turn into Miami, after a 4th straight Pitbull song.
19:42 – Mr. Clean does
a double body shot.
19:42:30 – Trying
desperately to ignore Tony’s body shot, Sinickal and Pepster both note that they
bar is playing the radio edit version of Kid Rock’s Cowboy.
19:48 – Random girl
sidles up next to us and proclaims to everyone that she isn’t a lesbian, but
loves to ogle a women’s chest and smack ass.
She wasn’t as polite as this.
20:13 – Matt, after
Sinickal took control of the Touch Tunes with Tony Toni Tone’s It Feels Good, “It also feels old”.
20:37 – SiSet continues
with Wanna be your Lover by Prince.
20:38 – Fourth pick is
42.
20:47 – Two bouncers approach
us and tell us the manager “Called them on their walkie talkie and told them
that we needed to go”. When we ask why,
they respond, “I don’t know, our manager just said so.
We are completely
flabbergasted. We have no idea why they
told us to leave. We were current on our
tab, minding our own business having some beers, talking with our friends and
generally just being ourselves. We are
still trying to figure this out. And don’t
worry Arlene, Hopps didn’t do anything to embarrass the family.
We now cannot say that
we have never been tossed out of a bar.
I guess this our is our cross to bear.
20:54 – Rio Rio
21:23 – Hopps just
realizes that he has to explain to his wife that we were kicked out of Coyote
Ugly.
21:51 – Hopps leads
Pepster into Republic of Texas because Too
Close by Next is playing. Lose
Sinickal and Tony who were up ahead.
Pepster texts them to let them know where we were.
22:45 – Lots of white
people dancing to Camila Cabello’s Havana.
23:01 – Tony heads
home.
23:31 – Marlins defeat
the Cubs 2-1 in 17 innings.
23:47 – Bar explodes
when Notre Dame beats UConn.
23:51 – Sinickal heads
home. Pepster stays to babysit Hopps.
00:57 – Waiting for
Uber, Hopps looks at Pepster and proclaims, “I am so glad you’re smart!”
01:15 – Off to
bed. Tomorrow is game day.
