Middle Tennessee vs Western Kentucky – Men’s CBB – ESPN2 1pm et
Didn’t sleep very well last night – I never do when I have to get up so insanely early! But I had a 4am crew call… so 2:45a the alarm went off. Didn’t really matter since I was already awake.
Once I was all loaded up in the car, I drove around to the lobby to get coffee.
UGH!
How could they not have a pot ready?!
There was a Steak-n-Shake right down the street – so I pulled in and missed the empty drive thru. Of course by the time I drove around, someone else had pulled in. Obviously their night was just coming to an end because they sat at the sign, not the ordering sign, the sign listing the combos currently on special – and kept yelling at it. After a few minutes, I gave up. They were obviously too drunk to realize it was only a sign they were yelling at.
So very depressing when your day is just
starting, when yesterday is just ending for the rest of the world!
My mood was quite surly by the time I arrived at the truck. The town was so small, nothing was open en route. But like an angel from heaven, Tom, the engineer, gave me his coffee! I love my Lyon boys!
Lunch time was like at 8am or something crazy. I ventured out to the Bob Evans. I have learned over the past 24 hours that the longest red lights in the country are in Kentucky!
After the game, I had drive to Lexington. Oh my that was rough! It was about 3.5 hours. Thank God I was able to talk on the cell phone the entire way or I would of never been able to stay awake!
Just my luck – as I arrived in Lexington, the Kentucky men’s basketball game was just ending. The hotel is attached to the arena. Oh, this is not going to be good!
Sure enough, the roads that I knew were all closed down.
Deep breaths.
I sat for a good 45 minutes, creeping only inches at a time to the hotel. I was so close to just leaving my car in the middle of the road, walking the hotel and telling the valet to go get it!
So I get to the point that I can see the street in front of the hotel is closed down. GREAT! The valet stand and the parking lot are on that street.
Since I wasn’t moving, I called the hotel to ask if they had alternative parking since the street was closed.
That only got me angrier!
For every men’s hoops home game, they close the street. The hotel staff acted as I was the first time in all these years to call and ask for an alternate route.
Completely worthless!
I sat at the intersection for a good 15 minutes.
I had determined there was no way I was going to turn when it was my time. I was going to wait until an officer came over to the car to yell at me – then I would promptly yell back!
When it was my turn, I screamed out to the officers and begged them to open the street. And they did because the traffic almost back to normal.
Thank God, because the mood I was in would of resulted in a little jail time.
As I entered the lobby, I was overcome by a sea of blue.
Oh dear God – there really are worse fans than Ohio State fans!
They are Kentucky men’s basketball fans!
I truly hate them.
Had dinner plans with some friends who had just got done working the men’s game. I wanted to break them and go to bed – but there was a party in the room next door - so there was no way I would be able to sleep.
So I met up with my friends in the lobby. But I first stopped at the front desk and warned them that if the party in the room next door was still going on when I got back – I was going to be vigilant and call security every 10 minutes until it got stopped. Not everyone staying in this hotel was here to party!
One of the people I was meeting for dinner, Audrey, went to Kentucky and had the perfect place in mind. So we headed over.
Joe Bologna’s
It had moved since she lived here. It was now in an old church. Pretty cool.
Has beer and pizza – what else could one ask for!?
Got back to the hotel around 10.
Only had to call security twice. Party next door ended.
They obviously left and went elsewhere because they were back around 3am.
A quick call to security and they were quiet again.
