We had a great time at the WXDU outing to the Durham Bulls tonight. They had gotten one of those boxes in right field with tables and chairs instead of bleachers. And we were under a roof! It ended up not raining, but it sure looked like it was going to so I was relieved to see the shelter.
It was a pretty exciting game: the Norfolk Tides took an early lead, then the Bulls had a blowout fifth inning, then the Tides rallied in the 8th but weren't quite able to come back. The final score was 7-5 Bulls.
The funniest thing tonight was the drunk people in the box in front of us. They had a keg, and were working really hard at emptying it, so much that about half-way through the game I asked Georg if he thought they were satirically imitating drunkards, or were they actually plastered. He couldn't tell and neither could I.
It became clear that it was drunkenness, not satire, when one of them shoved a peanut up another one's nose, and he couldn't get it out. It wasn't so much the peanut going up the nose that gave them away; accidents do happen. It was the reaction: everyone in the box thought it was uproariously funny, except the guy with the peanut in his nose, who calmly explained to the woman who had done it that she owed him and was obligated to get the peanut out. Her reply: "I didn't know it would go so far up!"
He kept trying to give her a napkin (how that was supposed to help get a peanut out of his nose, I don't know) and then the two of them tried to find a pair of tweezers. They couldn't find anyone with tweezers, imagine that. Eventually one of the other drunks convinced the peanut guy to close the other nostril and blow out, dislodging the peanut. (It wasn't in the shell and wasn't stuck in there; it had just gone far enough up into his nose that he couldn't reach it.) That got the peanut about halfway out, and instead of pulling it the rest of the way out he sat there while all the other drunks took photos of the peanut hanging out of his nose.
The single funniest thing I've ever seen at a baseball game may be a pair of drunks trying to borrow tweezers so they can remove a peanut lodged in one's nose.
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