Baby Name Determined!

The first name will be: Hippity

The middle name will be: Hoppity

Restaurant Hostesses are Not Smart

Those of you who have ever gone out to eat with me have likely heard me complain about how idiotic and dumb restaurant hostesses are. In my entire life, I have yet to witness a smart hostess (Note: The hostess may indeed be smart, but not smart about being a hostess).

I took note of this phenomenon as a youngster while working at Chi-Chi's in high school. As a bus-boy, my main job was to clear the tables, then bring the new guests chips and salsa within 60 seconds of sitting down.

Early on in my bussing career, I began to wonder why there would be a one-hour wait (who the hell would want to wait an hour to eat at The Chi?) when I had cleaned off several tables several minutes ago (I was a damn good busser) which were sitting unused? Didn't the stupid hostess know the table was open? If they knew, why wouldn't they fill the table? I mean, they have a whole freaking team of hostesses: one to greet you as you walk in, one to take your name and manage the waitlist, one to take you to your table, and one to be in charge and tell all of the others what to do.

This began to really irritate me because as long as there was a wait, I wasn't going home anytime soon. My goal was to get the hell out of there, so I took it upon myself to begin telling the hostess team when there were open tables. They would look at me like, "yeah, we know" and I would be like, "ok, then seat the damn table!!!!!" I will never know what they are waiting for.

In my life since leaving the Chi, I have observed the exact same phenomenon at EVERY other restaurant I have ever eaten at. We will walk into a place for dinner, and they tell you there is a 15 minute wait. But when I look around the place, I see 5 open tables. WHY. Next time you're out to eat and they tell you there is a wait, I guarantee there are at least 5 open tables. Now you can feel my pain.

Hostesses are UNIVERSALLY DUMB.

I plead the 5th, bye bye Ferrari - Bravata Update

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2009/10/ponzi_scheme_suspects_invoke_5.html

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20091016/FREE/910169991#

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091013/NEWS01/91013021/Federal+regulators+seek+title+to+Bravata+s+Ferrari

Bumper Stickers

I'm not a bumper sticker kind of guy, for several reasons:

1. They are probably hard to get off your car.
2. They are trashy.
3. I don't believe in anything enough to advertise like that (except Umich fooseball)
4. They ruin a nice car.
5. Some are funny, but really - what's the point?

All Dads Love Peanuts (special entry for Mike)

Shame on the Detroit Tigers

They had a 7 game lead with less than a month to go.

They had a 2 game lead with 3 games left.

Today is the last game of the year and you can bet the Twins will win, so we need to win just to have a playoff game with the Twins.

Down the stretch, we've lost 4 of 5 against the White Sox, and 6 of 7 against the Royals. Meanwhile, the Twins are crushing the White Sox and Royals in September.

If you can't play .500 ball against the last place teams down the stretch, I guess you don't deserve a playoff spot.