¡Chúpalo, franchutes!

[muckefuck]

Perhaps I should take more two-hour lunches--particularly if they involve pints of Guinness and hot crisps doused in malt vinegar. Naturally, they had the France-Mexico game on behind the bar. And just as naturally, supporters of Les Bleus were thin on the ground. At one point, I got carried away and said:

"I would hope no one here is supporting France!"
"He is," said the barkeep, gesturing to an impeccably Gallic young man at the end of the bar.
"And you're serving him?"
"It's a public house, we serve everyone."
"He should be allowed to drink," I replied, "just as long as he doesn't use his hands. That's fair, innit?"

Was Jávier Hernández on or off? The barkeep had an answer for that. "He plays for Man U? Then he must've been offsides!" It might not even have mattered in the long run, since to quote a BBC commentator, "The longer this game has gone on, the worse France have got." Hélas, c'est bien trop vrai!

Now I wish more than ever I had some plausible excuse for stumbling in a couple hours late tomorrow morning.

Comments

"It's a public house, we serve everyone."

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

I guess Rand Paul doesn't own it.

Chuck