If you know (or have a guess at) the answers to these pressing questions, leave it in the comments.
1. Who chooses the music you hear before a concert?
Somehow, I’ve always assumed the music was chosen by the band. I heard an entire new Fountains of Wayne CD before a BNL concert once. Gary contends the bartender for the venue chooses it, otherwise, it’s chosen by the venue management.
2. How do you correctly order one large shotglass with two shots of Baileys, no ice?
Two fingers Bailey’s, neat? That sounds very James Bond. But, I doubt it is right.
3. Gary complained last week that the yellow leaves the Ash tree dropped make it look like someone had spilled cornflakes all over our lawn.
So, I raked and blew and filled 9 leaf bags, 2 totes, and 1 large trash bin with leaves and stuck them in the garage. That was yesterday. Today I came home, opened the garage door, and I was hit with the smell of ______ (fill in the blank). It’s very distinctive, it smells just like something else, and I don’t know what it is. (Not cornflakes.) The first thing I thought was, “Spontaneous combustion” (the non-human kind). When Gary walked in he said “It smells like the garage is on fire.” I said, no, that ash trees just smell like fires, that’s why they call them ash trees, but that was total b.s. just to calm him down so we wouldn’t sleep in a hotel.
Does anyone else have an ash tree? What IS that smell?
10 responses to “Three Pressing Questions”
At Bruce Hornsby concerts, people trek to the stage and leave song requests. A roadie gathers them up from time to,time. I think some sorting is done then Bruce chooses. There are also requests shouted from the crowd.
1. If you mean the coming-in-finding-your-seat music, that’s usually the venue, unless the band requests otherwise.
2. Bailey’s, double, neat.
“Fingers” depends on the size and shape of the glass. “Double” gets you two shots, or three ounces. (A regular shot glass won’t hold two shots.)
3. Mold.
Silk is right. Normally I correct, but this time I just agree. On all of it.
According to the googles, ash trees are called that because their name came from an Old English word that meant Spear.Also, you definitely order any shot as neat without ice and double as twice the amount but that’s beside the point – there’s a liquor out there that tastes like a cinnamon roll. I overheard someone at lunch talking about it. Cinnamon roll!
Becs – That is so NICE. Only request I know of that BNL accepted was on behalf of a dead fan.Silk -nope, not mold. See below.Tami -still not mold. See below.AmyinStL- cinnamon roll liquor? A liquor, not a concoction like a chocolate cake shot?All – the next time I entered the garage I thought, “it’s the smell from grade school.” The time after that I thought, “hamsters.”It is wood shavings, from the pencil sharpener in school and the stuff hamsters lie on.
Pencil shavings and hamster bedding is cedar.
Turns out it’s called Rumchada.
~~Silk – that is a distinction my nose does not appreciate. It was close enough.Amy in StL – on closer research, Rumchata, a form of horchata, made famous by Vampire Weekend.
1) The bartender or bar management chooses the music that plays in the bar unless it is being performed live or there is a jukebox.
2) Double Bailey’s, neat.
3) I’ve never left nine bags of wet leaves in my garage for an extended period of time, I don’t know what it would smell like other than mold.
Hot mom – mine were not at all wet, that must be why I noticed them