9/14 - HOTTT Wings and Flooded Freeways!

Time to pay the piper! Gotta get the dead phone taken care of. Called AT&T. Told I had to talk to the warranty department. Also told that I could change out my phone in the store if the store was ok with it. Cool. On my way to get this thing resolved!

RIGHT! I forgot that I was in Mayberry! I walk in to the AT&T store and get some kid that probably had to have his mom drop him off at the job. I told him my plight and before I could even finish my story said "No. Can't do it" Umm, OK, can I maybe finish my story. It includes notes that people at corporate have approved me doing this! Well, I finally finish my story and this snot nosed twit informs me that what I am asking has NEVER been done in the TWO months that he has worked there!! Oh, so this goes wayyy back!! Basically, for as long as he has had pubic hair, his store has not done this. Well, Skippy, thanks for your support! Can you please look up my record to tell me if I have insurance on the damn thing? "Our computers are down but you can look on the Internet" Look, you stupid little premie, do you understand my phone is DEAD?? How in the H*#@ am I supposed to GET to the Internet to look it up!! Yea, that was enough of that! Walked out and headed to Portage to take Dave home!

By this time, though, Dave decides the game time (da Bears!) is too close so let's hit Buffalo Wild Wings. We got a couple bloody marys and hung out to catch the game. At one point I get up to go to the bathroom and Dave asks before I leave if I want to get wings. Figuring he was going to order 12, I told him to "Get as hot as you can take". I know him and knew I could handle whatever level he'd be able to take. Well, when the wings come he got two 6 piece orders. As I bit into the first one I thought I was going to DIE! EXPLODE right there. OMFG!!! Once things calm down, I discovered that Dave thought I said "Get as hot as they MAKE". Holy sheep shit, this is NOT Hooters!

So, if you go to Buffalo Wild Wings DO NOT GET THE 'BLAZIN' unless you are seriously ready to take on the heat! Here is what they have to say about these wings on their website:
Think you have what it takes to succeed at the Blazin’® Challenge? We have one question for you. What’s your pain threshold? Have you ever slept on a bed of nails? Walked on burning coals? All child’s play compared to the Blazin’ Challenge. Simply eat a mere 12 wings prepared with our signature Blazin’® sauce in six minutes and you win. Easier said than done, of course.

Hell, I couldn't even get to four of them in a half an hour!!! NFW am I going to go for this! And if there was ever any second thoughts later on, they went up in flames the next morning as I was reminded of just how hot thosse things were!! Yep, burned me at BOTH ends!!

Once we finished that up we headed off to Portage to take Dave home. By the way, during this time it was STILL raining! And now the issue was being able to get back to Illinois without use of a boat or outboard motor! I found the irony in the fact I was heading to 'Portage' yet there was no portage available in that area to get to Illinois! So, when in doubt of being able to make it somewhere, what do you do? Find some more bars and drink!!

This was a great way to end the trip! Getting sloshed while the whole area was getting sloshed!