Paint your wagon

My friend Cot invited John and me to go to a pub quiz last night. Since John likes pub quizes and Cot is a lot of fun, we thought that we would go. It was a fundraiser for the Musical Society held in the Tennis Club in Glasnevin. The prize for winning was 200 Euro and there was a draw for 1000 Euro!

There were four of us at the table: John, me, Cot and her friend Ci. Ci has recently broken up with her boyfriend of seven years. Cot is dating a guy who lives in Oxford and was coming over to Dublin today. Both of them had dates today. Ci had a first date with a guy that she met last week in a pub. She has been texting A all week and read all the text messages to John and myself so that we could over analyze what each of them meant, if A was into her, and if she was playing it cool enough but also interested. She also wanted to make sure that she was being coy enough. Then Cot read some of her texts to us from Oxford A.

So, the pub quiz began while we were still over analyzing the texts from A to Ci. We were given a bunch of pictures of people and a painting of "Taking of Christ." We got one of six of the questions correct. That didn't bode well for us and certainly set the tone for the quiz. It continued to be the most difficult quiz that John has attended (he went to them weekly for a couple months when he worked in the UK). We decided pretty early into the quiz that our average age was too low to know answers to this quiz. They asked questions like what a digitalis plant was, to identify different classical and show tunes music, and a question about the movie "Paint your wagon" with Clint Eastwood. Now, John has seen a Simpsons episode where they make fun of this movie but he thought that the writers of the Simpsons made up this movie. He was quite surprised to find out that it was a real movie and the answer to the question.

Since we didn't have a hope in hell of winning the pub quiz (and they didn't tell us we couldn't "phone a friend"), Ci and Cot both texted their A's to ask them answers to a couple questions (and got us one more point). Ci also continued "text flirting" with her A during the whole quiz. I knew we could be boring at times, but are we really less company than texting someone? :)

So, after the quiz was the draw for loads of prizes. After the draw for the grand prize (which was first instead of last), Ci tore up her ticket, not realizing there were other prizes. She won the second prize of a large tv and DVD player! That was quite exciting since she didn't have a TV or DVD player since she just moved back home after moving out of her apartment with her boyfriend.

After all the draws, we kept drinking and then went to the Porterhouse North. We had a couple drinks there until they closed. We then walked to Eddie Rockets to have drunk food. They have really good onion rings and OK milkshakes. We ate our drunk food and went our separate ways, as it was 3:30 AM! I haven't been out that late in ages, probably since undergraduate university!

As we walked out of Eddie Rockets, a Nite Link bus passed. Doh! So we had to hail a taxi to take us home. I knew the taxi driver! I was slightly embarrassed that this person was seeing me drunk at 3:30 AM. Oh well. He took us to the Ha'Penny Bridge and didn't charge us! I thought that was very nice of him. Upon getting out of the taxi, we said thanks and goodnight to the taxi driver and some drunk people got in. They wanted to go to Castleknock and heard our American accents. They said a few obnoxious things about Iraq and Americans. They kept shouting at us as we walked away. I wonder how the taxi driver handles the drunk guys. My guess is that he was probably annoyed with these passengers since they were being rude to me and he likes me. :) It must have been a good fare, though.

This morning, we slept in. Well, until afternoon. It took a while to recover.