Say what?

Out at the bar last night, Carlita and I were feeling a little low key, so when some male strangers asked us if we'd like to join their game of Black Jack we thought why not? After a few rounds of play, Carly and I were nearly comatose -- they were dealing ALL of the cards face up. Now I'm no card expert, but I don't believe that's the way you really want to play, AND we weren't playing for drinks or anything (THE AUDACITY). Thinking that we might need a change of scenery, we headed for a bar that was a little cozier where two of us could just chat (..or heatedly discuss FLASHBACK: "I'm going to the bathroom and you'd better DAMN WELL be here when I get back!" "I WILL!" "Fine." "Fine.")

Upon arrival at the next bar, we bought our drinks and decided to sit at the bar (probably our big mistake, in hindsight). Shortly after settling into our perch, another stranger approached us and started babbling "Bella! Bella..." he continued on in this manner with some sort of Italian/Spanish muddled mix. His act started to fall apart when I began to swear at him in Italian and he seemed to have no comprehension of any of the words I was saying. Eventually, he admitted that he was not a foreigner (no shit?) and evidently this was quite funny to him. He stumbled away laughing to himself while Carly and I exchanged looks of pure confusion.

As they say, "things come in threes" (Digression: now is that applicable to everything and anything.. or just bad things, not good things?? Anyone?). Almost immediately after wannabe-foreign-guy left us, this burlyish man appeared at my side and asked: "Have you ever met a mountain lion tamer?" I looked at Carly to make sure I was not hallucinating this and replied, "um Nooo.." to which he said, "Well, do you wanna meet a mountain lion tamer?"

Riddle me this - Are people like this all over the country? Or is it strictly a regional thing? Perhaps all of the freaks come out on Tuesday night? It's series of events like this which make me think I need a REAL change of scenery... but I suppose, there are freaks in every area code.