Fight Club

Having been out of town every single weekend since Labor Day, yesterday was my first night out in Charlottesville for almost a month.  And what a welcome back it was!  Apparently everyone was so happy to see me that the only way they could express their excitement was by throwing fisticuffs at each other.

It all started during dinner at Wild Wings Cafe, when a large guy sitting at the bar began yelling at a woman who was watching the game from her table.  I still don't know why he started verbally abusing the nice, young lady, but the server had to come by and deescalated the situation.  The large guy yelled at everyone as he left the restaurant, which ended with him punching the owner (whom we found out later was also his neighbor) in the face before getting into the car.  Meep!

But it didn't stop there.  While we were watching the LCD Soundsystem concert from the Belmont Bridge, a seven-year-old kid walked up to us and threatened to hit us with his stick.  Nate took the stick from him and gave it to his friend, who was trying to get him to stop threatening people.  The kid ran and got his mom, who told us that he was "just playing" and not to take anything out of her child's hands.  She then left to get her husband to show us what's "straight up."  Meep!

And it all ended at Biltmore, where one of the bouncers got in a fight with someone for, once again, unknown reasons.  At that point, we decided to just flee the scene and get out of the way of all the angry people in Charlottesville.  Meep!

But, every cloud has its silver lining.  Peepers got to meet Captain Morgan while we were at Biltmore.  He then caught a pass from the Captain and got to keep the football.

Meanwhile, one of the barwenches told me, "You're so cute," and gave me a styrofoam hat.  Man, she was probably just trying to get me to fight her like everyone else last night.