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Wedded Bliss

Hope your weekend was nice, my was okay except I noticed another transition in life. Not one I was counting on this early either but it is yet another example of balaams_ass getting old. It involved a wedding and my oldest daughter and a wedding and my youngest daughter. Yes it seems I'm finally old enough to be going to weddings of my children's friends.

The first wedding was in Walton, NY at the Rainbow Lodge which coincidentially is for sale click on the link and scroll down to # 1103C. It's about 60 miles mostly east and a little north of Binghamton and the second was in at the Cyprian Keyes Golf Club in Boylston, MA just north and east of Worcester. On our way to the Boylston wedding we bumped into this sign outside a church. Please note that the correct quote was on the other side but since I didn't bother with a picture I'll provide it for you. "You shall have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:2-3 It's of course the first commandment. While it is sketchy English to begin with I can't be sure if they were meaning positionally (as in on left or right) or other then me ? I suspect they ran out of letters or ideas. Either way it goes to affirm my thought that any information source that people expect to change had better change. Please if the three or four of you that read this blog ever see a similar thing happening here.... Pull my plug.

The second thing happened at the reception hall of the other wedding at the Rainbow Lodge. Pictured to the right is two urinals filled to the brim with ice. Now I've seen this phenomena before and like crop circles, and why men have nipples, I could never understand how or why there was ice in urinals. I did a dinner theater show at a reasonably snooty place in the area and noticed every night ice in the urinal. My friend Kyle finally provided the answer drawing on his years of experience in the food service industry or his even greater ability to make stuff up off the top of his head. It acts as a natural odor eliminator. Gives a whole new meaning to please don't eat the mint.

Finally I leave you with the most offensive thing I have had to deal with in recent memory. I shudder and recoil at the thought of relating this to you but feel compelled to press on. Those of you that know me know that I have a distaste for 3 inches of head on my draft beer. Well picture an inch or more of head on the mug pictured below. Notice anything odd about it ?

I give you the 10oz beer mug masquerading as a 16oz beer mug. Notice how the bottom of the mug is above the lower handle ? Were it not for my wife and children I would have stormed out in disgust. Don't mess with my beer.

ba

posted by balaams_ass @ 1:28 PM