Where The Bear?

in #life3 years ago

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What wine are we having tonight, Daddy-Bear?

At the thought of wine, the Good Lady jiggled excitedly in her chair as if a gang of bees had started nesting in her salami slipper.

I too felt a tingling in my Don Johnson's at the thought of hitting the sauce tonight.

By the way... Whatever happened to your Saturday night beers?

The Good Lady asked innocently as if she were not poking a red raw wound in my pysche.

I opened my mouth as if to answer but nothing came out.

Instead, my mind flung itself back through the mists of ages. To a time before the plague of COVIDS. When I could bare my sexy mouth to the world and gallop free in the office like a magnificent IT Stallion.

I remembered the the Beer Shop and it's owner, the Bear-Man. His gruff northern accent almost incomprehensible to anyone outwith the North of England or @slobberchops.

I remembered his massive hands and fine beers.

The dank mysterious delight of a cavern that was his shop.

I remembered the time he had a lock-in and I scored an invite and had gotten rip roaringly drunk. Well. I didn't remember it really as most of it was a hazy blur but in Scotland that meant it must have been an amazing night.

I remembered him shutting up shop at the first sign of COVID.

How I had sneered at the folly.

Closing up shop? Because of some silly virus that someone had caught after shagging a Chinese bat? How nonsensical it had seemed.

But, like a harbinger of doom he had only been the first to close. Then everything else did too.

And I was left with only shit beers to drink. Like a common mortal I had supped shitty beers and made gurny faces as I pretended I was enjoying it. But I enjoyed them only as much as I would enjoy a right good pounding in the ring from Hulk Hogan.

If that ever happened I could only hope to make it out with an untorn vest.

I felt a pang in my undercarriage. It was not fair. I wanted beers. I wanted fancy beers. With mad ingredients and even madder percentages of alcohol.

I wanted to dance in the park, three sheets to the wind, like that crazy guy that used to dance on Steemit.

(I think he was nice crazy)

I looked at the Good Lady and I set my jaw in a way that I thought Thor might be proud of.

Whatever happened to the Saturday beers..?

I looked off into the distance whilst simultaneously thumbing my phone like an amorous babboon.

My thumb stopped thumbing and a screen popped up with an email.

It was an email from the Bear Man when he had been doing deliveries.

At the bottom, in his signature was a telephone number.

I let out an involuntary squeeing noise which led the Good Lady to stare at me as if I had suggested we sing the Home and Away theme tune together.

I sniffed at her disdainfully the way I sniff at old leaky washing machines and hit the call button.

It rang.

And rang.

And rang.

And then it answered...

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One year ago today, I left for my vacation in Florence, Italy. What was supposed to be 7 days in Florence ended up being 24 hours in Florence and the remainder trying to get myself to Frankfurt for our flight home.

Booked 3 flights - all cancelled then found out the airport was closed.
Booked a train through Austria - got to the station - Austria had closed their border 3 hours earlier.
Booked a train through Switzerland - success.
At the first platform after crossing into the Swiss border - military police boarded and sent all Italians and anyone else who couldn't prove that they were in transit back to Italy.
Then, we went to a concentration camp to get a much better perspective that this wasn't the worst thing that could happen.

Ouch, that sounds like bloody murder. It's certainly not what you expect from a cool vacation in Italy. Bloody covid has a lot to answer for!

The funny thing was ... It wasn't until they started closing the museums in Munich that my brain registered ... This is real.

Yeah, that is one scary episode to be put behind you. Now, the only thing left is getting the lockdown covid nonsense behind us too x

I'll drink to that ... well, and pretty much anything else.

Slainte

Slainte!!!!

Aye the good old days. Sometimes it really feels like a bad dream that I will soon enough wake from...

yeah, me too. I keep thinking back to this time last year when the way we are living would seem preposterous!

Well I guess all that can be said is...

Hahahahhahahah, yes indeed. Wise words! :OD

OMG! The beer is back in town! Beer is back in town! Oh, how I have missed it! I just commented this Saturday somewhere about no more beer.

I look forward to that scrunchy face upon getting a bad one!! Yay!

But what if they are all good!!

hahahhahah, as if , I intentionally get bad ones just to react! :OD

Haha!! You cheater!!! Do more!!

Hey, @meesterboom.

re: And then it answered...

It was the fax machine! The unholy screeching of a banshee in the northern nights! It left me breathless, wondering... Who in the world has a fax machine in 2021?

Okay. I can see from the comments that you are indeed getting beer deliveries again, but since you left the post trailing off there, I couldn't resist procuring some sort of finish for it. Unfortunately, it's not quite up to snuff, but oh well. :)

A fax machine!! Oh the screechy nonsense from them! I actually read somewhere of someone wanting a fax for something and because of lockdown, it was hard to access. I think it was Reddit and I was like, a fax?! Its 2021!!!

Exactly! Even back in 2010 I was thinking, Fax Machine? It's 2010! There's something called e-mail!

Some technology dies hard, even the ones that just need to. There's not much worse tech-wise than calling up a phone number, only to have the Fax Machine pick up when no one else does, because the business can't be bothered to have a separate fax line. :)

That is such a familiar thing! I remember when I got my last printer it made a big deal out of being able to send to a fax and I thoughtthat works have been handy in the eighties lo lol. As you say, some of it dies hard!!

Sounds like you stepped through the time portal known as Radio Shack to get that printer. :)

Faxes were fine when you couldn't send emails, attach documents, etc. A printer just needed to scan and voila.

I get the feeling that there are people out there—contractors and bankers among them—that just really love that little bit of tech. It probably reminds them of the good ol' days when life was simpler—less yelling, not so much plague or instant death, no 24 hour news cycle telling us about plague and death, no social media helping us spread the news about plague and death...

So, it's got to be nostalgia, not practicality. Half the time, you couldn't read the fax anyway. :)

Half the time, you couldn't read the fax anyway.

That was the kicker. Sometimes you had to jump through insane hoops to actually get your fax to receive something and then when you did you had this barely legible thinkg printed on shiny looking toilet paper that you couldn't read in a million years!

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here's mine!!

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Dammit!! That looks great and it's exactly the kind of thing I would normally be having!!

I have got a few of these though. It's quite nice, the sourness balances out the peach nicely!

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YES! The Beers are back in town! 🍻

Almost!!! Almost almost!!

To pre-celebrate it, I shall drink a Triple (or two, maybe even three...) to that, cheers!



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It had to be three, it sounds just right!! :0D

Guess I will (re)enjoy the Matrix even more after the third wend down the hatch! 😄🍺🍺🍺

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I think so. Just about anything would be more enjoyable after the third!!

Will tell my other half that everything is more pleasent after I had my third. Do not know if she'll buy that. But it is worth a try. 😁

Have a great evening mate!

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I kinda miss your beer posts, your face when you gave them a taste was priceless
!ENGAGE 10

I am looking forward to them making a return. If the lockdown and the gods of beer decide it should be so!! :0)

Impending beer delivery?? Say it is so!

Looking forward to the return of Saturday night beers with a rendition of the nice crazy man dance.

I dont think a berr night would be a beer night without some crazy man dancing!!

Deliveries are coming back! He had stopped, but they are on! Woot woot!

Excellent news!

I collected a couple from Lidl at lunch to add to the same ones that are chilled - I think it is time for balcony beer action :D

Balcony is where it is at! I did get some from Morrisons that look alright and I got a pile of wood delivered to burn in the garden seeing as we are in the bitter north! Cant wait, fire and beer!

A fine combination. Beer and wood deliveries - a man of centuries past would be outraged, and then get used to his new life of ease 😁

I remember outrage! It was a nice thing to have before lockdown beat it out of me!

hello dear friend @meesterboom good afternoon
I was missing the saturday night beers too, hope the bear man returns with the beers deliveries
Salut dear friend
have a splendid weekend

I think they might be a coming jlufer! I can feel it in my water!

I was left with only shit beers to drink.

Carling Black Label and Fosters? (sorry Aussie readers.. but Fosters sits categorically in the 'shit beers' section). I thought this was leading up to !WINE for a minute. You got my last glassful earlier!

Fosters? No arguments here. I don't actually know anyone that drinks Fosters. To be honest I don't know anyone that watches Home and Away either. I think they're both a special breed. Flamin' Mongrels they are!! (Alf Stewart)

Bloody gallahs! I think that's what they used to say all the time too!! I don't know anyone either who indulges in and of the two. Matthew as life goes on we jettison those sorts! :0D

LOL.., Fosters was forced upon me as a drinking youth.. not good memories!

Haha, Foster's is atrocious. It really is. I have a soft spot for calling because I drank it when I was younger. I couldn't now but I still think of it fondly. That and miller!!

I will have to check out the wine nonsense. I bought some but haven't really did any investigation on it!

There has already been too much ENGAGE today.

Oh YEAH!!! The beer gods MUST come thru....I'm sure the Bear Man will pull out all the stops especially if you let him know how much he's been missed. His audience awaits LOL

He is restocking apparently. I consider that a win!

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