I just have to tell you about last night. It started out with a fantastic dinner at Flemming’s over at The Greene, courtesy of my new employer, Todd, to celebrate my one month anniversary contracting for his company. That makes two company-purchased dinners in one month, which is twice as many as I got in 6+ years at my former employer. Good times.
For those who are unaware, The Greene is one of those outdoor malls set up like a small town where you are exposed to the elements as you walk past each trendy store that has absolutely nothing you want to buy. And because people seem to have this habit of making names that aren’t possessive, possessive (I swear, I heard someone say “Wal-Mart’s” the other day), we now mockingly call it “The Greene’s”. Thanks idiots.
Anyway, the food at Flemming’s (actually a posessive name) was excellent and very pricey. I ordered the porterhouse steak and a baked potato, and the steak alone was $33. Worth every penny.
Flemming’s is unquestionably an adult restaurant with dim lighting and employees and guests who wear suits and a low hum of conversation as opposed to a roar, so you can imagine how unhappy I was when I was interrupted in the middle of my $33 steak because the baby at the table next to us started screaming. What the hell! I truly cannot have a peaceful meal anywhere without you idiots and your screaming damn kids ruining it. Really, get over your idiotic persecution of smokers and start concentrating on being considerate of others around you and keep the little bastards at home. Flemming’s is no place for a baby, and as the adult parent, you should realize that and hire a sitter or choose Chuck E. Cheese’s instead. As the anti-smoking Nazis like to point out, your actions affect others, and it works both ways. I would never light a cigar in such a place, even if it were legal, and in return I don’t want to have to hear your kid.
After dinner we went downtown to some event where Arcade Square’s was being opened for public viewing, possibly for the last time. It has been closed up for more than a decade now, and because of some situation with tax liens and other financial problems, it could be knocked over. That’s really too bad because it’s a very neat historical building, but the city around it has been so mismanaged and neglected that there’s probably no way for it to become financially successful in the foreseeable future.
I took a bunch of pictures for those of you who haven’t seen the inside of the building before. For whatever reason, the Christmas decorations from a holiday event in 1990-something are still hanging.
After seeing the Arcade’s, we returned to my car and saw this car parked in front of it.
Wow.
And then we went over to Mike’s place and enjoyed the pumpkin cheesecake we had prepared the night before. It was delicious.
That was my Friday. And this has been, like, the best Twitter’s entry ever, because Twitter’s is like, so cool, and it’s so important that everyone know what I’m doing every moment of the day. Thanks, Twitter’s, for turning the narcissism of the blogging age up one more notch to the point where I feel justified writing pointless blog entries like this one.
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September 15th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I *like* reading about what you are doing - so sue me, you misanthropic bastard…
September 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
And you probably like that I’m a little bit of a dick about this kind of stuff.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Wow… The Arcade(’s)…
I remember going there when I was really young. I think the last time I was there when it was open I couldn’t have been more than 8 or 9.
Thanks for the pictures!
September 18th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Flemming’s is nice. I had a great steak myself on Urban Nights Friday but downtown in the Oregon District at John Henry’s. No crying babies or any children in the place at all, perhaps because parents with kids tend to be suburbanites and afraid of downtown, thank God.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:30 am
So let people smoke wherever they want, but no screaming babies? I think you got to outlaw both or neither right? Smoking == offensive to some people. Screaming babies == offensive to some people. How can you allow one but not the other? If someone is going to talk about the “idiotic persecution of smokers” then what about the idiotic persecution of screaming babies? Treat all offenses the same right? Babies have rights too! I think so anyway, but that may have been outlawed in the last election. I will have to check on that.
That being said… WTF! Screaming babies at Flemings? That is crazy! What is wrong with people today? Have the common courtesy to keep that brat away from a place like that, just as people should have the common courtesy not to just go up and blow smoke in your face.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
It’s almost like someone gets the point! You can’t pick and choose the things that annoy you, like smoking and babies, and make them illegal. We’re boiling a frog here, we’re slowly bringing the law into the area of day-to-day behavior and threatening people with jail and fines because they do something that annoys us. We’re setting government and society on a dangerous track. We’re sacrificing freedom because we feel entitled to be comfortable at all times. It’s a disaster in the making.
I wish I had an answer.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
While were at it lets outlaw everything. Eating steak is offensive to vegans right? We’ll just go to a “bar” on friday nights with no alchohol,tv,food,music or anything else that might offend someone. It will be such an enjoyable experience standing in an empty room doing nothing.
Or we can let everything go and have no rules/regulations. You can go to the “bar” to sell drugs, rape women, stab people etc. That sounds like great fun as well. You guys are so right, I say all or nothing as well.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Well, no. As I’ve stated other places in this blog, crimes are actions that threaten another individual’s right to life, liberty, or property. That includes rape and murder. Drugs, on the other hand, are another subject.
It’s not al all-or-nothing proposition. There are things that should be illegal, things that damage other people and their property, not things that annoy people.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
If the mother knows how to calm the baby, then there’s no trouble at all bringing a baby to the restaurant. Babies are rarely inconsolable; it’s usually the young mother who does not know what to do.
I used to think also that people should leave babies home until my wife and I started having them, and she learned how to keep them happy and quiet. Took a while to learn though; seems that life skills like that just aren’t passed down or taught anymore.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
@9: Too bad you don’t know how to calm your babies too. Guess that’s just women’s work.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:28 am
(Car Photo)
Well at least the stuff was in the car and litter on the roadside.