i was shopping with the fam and we decided to stop by everyone's favorite processed-meat-in-barbecue-sauce-plus-liquor restaurant, applebee's, largely because it's the only place my daughter can squeal without having hipster twenty-somethings sneer in manufactured outrage at us breeders.
they put us in a booth next to a pair of old couples and the old man closest to us was going ON and ON and ON and ON about shit he had no clue about. first, it was servers (the computer servers, not the waitstaff) -- he said that "there's money in servers" and that he was gonna "invest in a server company if he could find a good one." what the fuck does that mean?
then he said he was "gonna get himself an ipod." when the lady across from him asked why, he said "it has everything: music, movies, and internet. it comes with like 500 songs and 50 movies already on it, so [he] can get caught up on movies." yeah, yeah, dumb old people. i'll let it fly. i'm the one listening in while my wife eats and my daughter tries to drop crayons into my beer, so i probably deserve it.
then the kicker: he got in argument with the other couple about "chicken-fried steak" versus "chicken-fried chicken". he INSISTED -- loudly, everyone could hear him -- that chicken-fried chicken was just another name for chicken-fried steak, but "fried on a flat grill, not deep fried". he got so mad at the other couple when they said the old person equivalent of "what the fuck" that he asked the waitress, and SHE said chicken-fried chicken was, as clearly indicated by the name, chicken that was chicken-fried. he flipped the fuck out and started screaming about how Applebee's sucks (duh), how it wasn't a real restaurant, and how when he was stationed in texas they cooked real chicken-fried chicken which was beef steak. his wife finally said "you were never stationed in texas, quit humiliating me" and he got quiet and sulked. she probably got her eye blacked when they got home.
i really wanted to bounce his old fat head off the table and then piss straight into his dumb fat mouth. he is g in 50 years' time.
also, in before lemurs