Hilarious

I saw two things that were uniquely Three Rives today.

First, I drove by Rite Aid on Michigan Avenue where a middle-aged, pot-bellied guy who was wearing a sleeveless muscle shirt was coming out with the largest case of Natural Lite beer I’ve seen. He was able to get by without sleeves by virtue of his ample body hair. I watched him lumber over to his 1987 Honda Magna motorcycle and try to figure out how to get the beer to stay on as he rode away. Finally, he got it to stay on, and I saw a gorilla riding away with a huge silver and blue box of beer strapped to the back of his cycle.

Second, I was at the Tap Room and saw Jim entertaining the kids. We had an all male cook off, which I entered with my world famous macaroni and cheese. Jim didn’t enter, but he came to eat. Jim has a debilitating disease which has resulted in his using a motorized wheelchair. Anyway, he was zipping back and forth through the bar as fast as that little electric chair would go with one kid at a time on it with him. I don’t know who enjoyed themselves more…the kids or Jim. It was heartwarming to see him so happy.

Photo is of the vacant Greystone Hotel which will likely be gone very, very soon.