For The Love of God, It’s Only Monday!
Last night I went to my weekly trivia night with my trivia team at Our House West, in Brighton, Mass. It’s really a college bar that attracts Boston College and Boston University students, but we’ve found that it has the best trivia in town. So it’s not that these details matter, but they provide context for the crowd.
It’s hard for us working folk to go out hard and get drunk on Monday. After all, we don’t have the option of a 2pm first class of the day or even class only two or three days a week. This changes the social dynamics so that it’s unlike a typical after work place. Trivia starts at 8:30 or 9 which gives ample time for those who choose to, to drink hefty amounts of liquid knowledge (it’s funny how childhood memories and facts are remembered more easily after a few drinks that enable you to stop over complicating the answers).
Unfortunately last night, all attempts by me to rationalize my presense at this bar were shattered. As I entered the men’s room to do as nature intended me to do after a few beers I made the conscious choice to head for the stall as on urinal was already in use. God forbid the man in the urinal should think I want to have sex with him if I had used the one next to him, which is a fact I learned after making a previous post about modesty in the men’s room. To my dismay someone had expelled the contents of their entire dinner, dessert, and whatever crap they had used to wash it all down. It was only Monday night and the bathroom was trashed as if it was the scene of some wild college party, yet one look around the bar would have you believing otherwise as trivia teams answered questions about Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, The Galapagos Islands, the opposing team against the Dodgers when Hank Aaron made his debut, and the Oklahoma football player who was the two time recipient of the Butkiss award.
Perhaps all those studies are wrong and binge drinking is no longer a weekend activity but rather a full-time sport for some.
Interesting that you are so much into trivia that you have a team! I and my husband, and a good friend of ours, are the sort of ‘charter patrons’ of a weekly pub quiz held on Tuesdays. It is the pub from which the Mayflower set off, on the south bank of the Thames. Not coincidentally, it is called ‘The Mayflower.’ Check it out: http://www.themayflowerpub.co.uk/
Comment by london_meeja_whore — April 17, 2007 @ 10:46 am
I did pub trivia at Davy’s in Trident Square a few times when I was in London. I did even worse as the trivia was local and I knew nothing about football!
Yeah, we have enough interest to have a team. It’s fun and a good time with friends.
Comment by Eric Brown — April 17, 2007 @ 10:06 pm