Mobile Pole Dancers & Rick Flair

Would you believe me that the title of this blog was exactly what I saw on Friday night?

As I walked to the stadium on Friday night, I noticed something I've never seen before. Now while walking around downtown before a game, there would sometimes be a few flat-bed trucks hauling around billboards. Some of the billboards would be advertising strip clubs or erotic shows.

Guess that wasn't getting the message across to those walking around downtown STL.

Friday evening as I was walking down broadway towards the stadium, I witnessed a flat-bed truck with a large plexiglass box on the back of it. Inside of this box was a stripper pole. What better way to finish this off than to have pole dancers in this clear box... Now i'll confess, i've never been a pole dancer, but i've road in the back of a pick-up truck...and that in itself is a daunting task to not get tossed around like a rag doll....I couldn't imagine how difficult it would have been to have pole danced while a truck was making it's way through the streets of downtown. I'm sure it gave a new meaning to driving over a pot-hole.

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I usually check my twitter feed on my phone before going out to sell beer to check if anyone I know has tweeted that they are at the game. I noticed that one of the sports reporters that I follow had tweeted that Rick Flair was throwing out the first pitch. Are you kidding me?!?!?! I grew up watching the real sport of WWF wrestling...ok, so I know it's fake....but I did watch Rick Flair while I was growing up. I made sure that I got my beer tub and was out in the stadium before the first pitch.

I heard the introduction. I even heard the infamous 'wwwooooooooooooooooooooo'. I may or may not have just gotten goosebumps. I sat my beer tub down to watch The Nature Boy throw out the first pitch.

I know I'm a smaller guy, but I'm confident that I could throw a baseball from the mound to home plate. I'm not saying it would ever be a perfect pitch, but I could get the ball to home plate. Yes, I would be able to do what Rick Flair couldn't do. That's right. Rick Flair couldn't throw the ball far enough to make it to home plate.

They even let him throw two more times and he never could throw the ball far enough to get to the plate.

I wonder how embarrassed he was. I mean, he could body-slam a 300lb man but couldn't toss a 5.25oz baseball 60'6".

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Aside from seeing mobile pole dancers and Rick Flair making a fool of himself, I don't have many interesting stories.

I continue to hear the same old-same old crap of, "are you even old enough to sell a beer?"

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When I made my way to the end of one section, I had two girls, who were obviously underage, lock eyes with my beer tub. The look in their eyes looked as if they were possessed. I heard one of them lean over and say how good the beers looked and how she could really use a Michelob Ultra. They continued sipping their sodas...never looking away from my beer tub.

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For the record, no I was not working Saturday's 20-inning classic. Even if I did work (as many of you asked via text messages) I would have been done selling at the end of the 7th....so extra innings never effect me....unless I'm there watching, in which, i'll never leave a game early. Never. It's my one rule I abide by when in attendance. Never leave early, because then when they do go into extra innings, that's free baseball. I only pay for/plan to attend a 8.5 inning game when I go to a game....anything beyond that is free baseball! /rant.

2010 total sales thus far:
5 bottle of soda
11 bags of peanuts
194 bottles of beer