The Beer Traveller

As I stated in my last post, we ran into a jerk @ Montana Brewing Company.  I found my 1st Asshole of the trip.  I’m about as laid back & non confrontational as they come, but that doesn’t change the fact that there’s always people that want to fight you for no reason.

Mike & myself were chit chatting w/ Scotland Steve when CTA (Craig the Asshole) came in & got himself a budweiser.  He sat down next to Steve & proceeded to strike up conversation with him.  Mike & myself were sitting at a 90 a little ways down looking in the direction of Steve & CTA.  CTA made it quite clear that he was a roughneck & he was still tough @ ~50 yrs old.  I have no problems w/ roughnecks, as long as this one doesn’t represent the lot.

CTA kept drilling Steve as to whether Mike & I were talking shit b/c we were looking in their general direction (we weren’t).  Steve got up to hit the head & I took the opportunity to go down & introduce myself.  CTA’s response “Us roughnecks have a saying…we would rather fight you than look at you”.  It was clear that we were not going to be BFFE so I went back to my seat.  Not sure if maybe it was my Birkenstocks, Mike’s hippy-like appearence, or my taste for Good Beer that tweaked this guy.

CTA continued to think we were talking about him & I could sense his inner violence growing to a boil.  At one point he screamed down to me (we weren’t even talking to him) & yelled “Your life sucks!  You have a shitty life!  I would hate to be you!”.  Needless to say he was shortly cut-off by Cory & Crew.  A few minutes later he left.  I went down to debrief w/ Steve; he informed me that CTA had been preaching religion to him the whole time.  I find it interesting that the drunkess, most beligriant, & most violent individual was preaching the gospel.

I can only find slight comfort in knowing I gave CTA my website & hope he can pull his head out of his ass long enough to have someone show him how to work a PC.  Hey Craig…this Bud’s for you!  You don’t deserve a real beer.