March 17th - Real St. Patrick's Day

i partied pretty hard on Saturday and thought i would take it easy for awhile. But i got a message from manthan about some crazy bar. He heard about it from a teacher at his school. The Irish Rover or something in Penndel. Turns out she's in a band and they were playing there. She also said that they had green beer and specials on cabbage and corned beef. i didn't feel like driving over there so i invited my dad to come along. Then he invited the whole vietnamese gang but only uncle Tam wanted to go.

The woman manthan knew, Joy, said that there is always a big crowd at this bar and most of the people there are our age. Which i couldn't believe, i could imagine a bunch of kids going to a tiny bar listening to a live band playing old school irish songs. But sure enough when we got there most of the people there were under 30.
Above is Joy with her husband...they sure look like a couple of characters. When the four of us got there we sat a table and got a couple bottles of yuengling. After that we got to two pitchers of Guinness. To eat we ordered fries, wings, and some sandwiches. i got the corned beef because Joy talked it up so much. But it was pretty bad, i've had way better. At least the wings were really good. We hung around Rover's for about 2 hours before leaving.

When we were about the head out the band had stopped playing and a guy came in with his bagpipes and started doing his thing. i actually liked the bagpipes more than the band. While manthan was driving towards my house earlier, he noticed that Reed's was having $1 Guinness Drafts...even though we were pretty tired by the time we got back from Irish Rovers...we couldn't pass up $1 Guinness let alone $1 anything. It could have been one dollar Natural Light and i would have been there. Well, maybe that is pushing it. But if it was Blue Ribbon i wouldn't even consider it. i can't stand that junx.

Anyway, i made manthan drive there because i was parked in. When we got to Reed's it was pretty much empty. Maybe give or take 30 people were there. But there was $1 Guinness and that was all we were there for. Oh and to people watch of course.

While sitting at the bar, a girl came up to our left and asked for some bottles of Miller Lite...WHAT? Miller Light for 4.50 bones rather than Guinness for a dollar?? That was just too crazy so Manthan asked her what that was all about. She gave him a little attitude and said that she didn't like Guinness. i'm not saying Guinness is the best beer in the world but it doesn't taste horrible and it has less calories than Corona. Basically Manthan's attempt to talk to a girl failed...

i soon consumed enough Guinness to make my firs trip to the bathroom. When i got back manthan decided to talk to another two girls. That was a failure too. Not sure what he was thinking. Since i broke the seal i had to visit the bathroom again. When i got back manthan decided to talk to another girl that was drinking by herself. She was wearing a pretty crazy sweater, something a grandma would wear and her head was shaved. i didn't come to the bar to meet people, i just wanted some cheap booze. i soon heard more than i need to know about this girl. Though she was a lot nicer than the girls manthan talked to earlier. She works two jobs; one as a photographer that does school photos with her mom, and she also works for Petco.

Since she works for Petco she has to have a million pets...which she does. She has three ferrets, a python, eight rats...i lost track after that but i'm sure she has some more like some cats and lizards. She then started telling us how guys are stupid and went into her guy problems. If there is one thing i don't want to hear about when i first start talking to a girl, its their guy problems. Do i look like Dr. Phil? So i soon swiveled my chair around when she started talking about that and left manthan to take over that conversation while i kept ordering more Guinness.

It was about midnight when manthan and i peaced Reed's and headed to the house. We grabbed one more beer from the fridge and played some pool. Of course i won the first game..i broke the second game but scratched and manthan wanted to count that as a win. Which is just ridiculous. He did so many "re-do's", it hardly seemed fair. Basically he's a sore loser. i then won the third game...but we all know if we actually played the second game i would have won that one too. Manthan soon passed out and i was left to entertain myself while i finished my beer and then headed to bed. Overall it was a good day...though i've consumed way too many carbs of beer in the past three days. Have to stop drinking that junx and start running again before i get obese again.