Day 61 - One Happy Couple

Yesterday (Saturday) was a decent day as a beer man. Nothing too special about it with sales...but the energy of the crowd was amazing.

It felt like it was a playoff game the way the crowd was getting into it so much.

It's too bad for the outcome of this past series...really Cardinals? swept by the Braves?!?!?!

Anyways...yesterday, I think it was during the 3rd inning, I walked down to the end of a section and sat my tub down as I was about to yell out my beer call when this happened:

The couple sitting on the end of the row looked over at me with surprised looks on their faces. They just looked at me, smiled (and smiled the way you smile when you see a friend you haven't seen in awhile) and the woman asked me, "where have you been? we've been waiting for you."

Now I've had people say that to me in reference to me being 'their' beer man...but this lady just said this to me as if her and her husband were waiting for me specifically...She continued, "we waited for awhile and never saw you so we had to get up and get our beer from up there."

I just looked at them, trying to hide the confused thoughts going through my head...as I tried to think if I had ever met this couple before...and then I quickly replied, 'well, i'm here now.'

After asking me how my day had been going, as if catching up with a friend, they eventually told me to come back in a few innings and they'd buy some beer off of me.

So I did just that. Throughout the game I made 4 stops back by there to the couple...each time I came back they were happy to see me and carried on a conversation for another couple of minutes...you'd think it was the alcohol getting to them? nope...they just asked random questions about working at the stadium and if I have enjoyed it...blah blah blah...

The second to last time I went back to them, I sold them some beers and I told them that I'd be back before 'last call' was over...the woman looked at me and did a whisper towards me and in a kind of school-girlish kind of way and said, 'oh i don't think we'll need anymore, we'll be drunk by then.' Her husband just looked at me and said, 'she might be, but I'll be fine...come back before the end of the 7th.'

I did make it back to them...they were both alright to have another...they tipped pretty well throughout the game...I just found it odd that they were looking specifically for me. Each time I was selling them beer, they kept on talking to me as if they had known me for several years...it was kind of weird. They weren't drunk. I didn't recognize them as season ticket holders...so it's not like I had served them beer before...I dunno, they were happy i showed up though...

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I also witnessed a guy wearing a neon-road-side-worker-green/yellow-colored shirt with a matching hat at the game.

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As I was walking to the parking garage from the stadium...I witnessed this guy standing on the window ledge of the passenger side door of his vehicle.




Totals thus far:
73 Bags of Cracker Jacks
142 Bottles of Water
257 Bags of Peanuts
3881 Bottles of Beer