Wasted Management Open
It was that time of year again, time to get your game face on and pretend to be interested in golf. Formally known as the FBR, the Phoenix Open was this year sponsored by Waste Management and was called the Waste Management Open. I found that ‘Wasted Management Open’ was far more fitting based on what I observed over the weekend.
Friday was fairly mellow in crowd attendance. This being my first year attending the open sober, I didn’t exactly know what to expect. I was hanging out most of the day in the Family Pavilion. I got the pass from a friend so I’m not entirely sure who was supposed to be up there. It had a hosted bar along with an amazing food spread and the cleanest port-o-potties. I found myself talking to several players from the Phoenix Coyotes was told this only after I nearly said something really embarrassing about all their missing teeth. Apparently, when you get a tooth knocked out it’s really cool to go in public without it. One of the guys even placed his behind his ear while he ate a hotdog.
I would like to suggest a name change for the Birds Nest, which is the “club” everyone goes to after they are done pretending for the day to be interested in golf. I found something along the lines of Cougars Den to be more fitting. O.A.R. performed on Saturday night. I don’t know whether it was my sober ears, but the sound was not very good this year. I thought that the music actually sounded best by the port-o-potties to the left of the stage outside the tent. Go figure!
Saturday proved to be much more eventful. Everyone must have been overjoyed that it wasn’t raining and decided to get a little crazy. I found myself mesmerized by a young man that decided to run across the top of the port-o-potties. There must have been a line of around 20 of them and he just leaped from one to the next with what appeared to be ease. He was arrested at the end of his show.
All in all a weekend filled with watching drunk people do all the crazy things I used to do was pretty fun! Next year I will know what I’m in for.
Welcome back!
I really liked this post because it gave an insider and personal perspective to a well-known event, but in a manner that sometimes isn’t told well by traditional press stories. The Republic wrote about how the crowds were smaller this year. But you showed that the event really wasn’t that different from previous years. Still a big party where golf isn’t always the most important thing going on.
Thanks,
Le Templar
Puma Press blogging adviser
Dear BF, ‘Cougars Den’; that is quite fitting for the description of those North Scottsdaleites who atypically and ritualistically worship these events of profuse hethonism. Also, your gravity of affluence is quite the extra-ordinary and extrovertist. Moreover, congratulations on keeping it clean, in Soberville.–NJK
Well you have officially convinced me not to ever go to the Open. Never really wanted to before and from your depiction I never will want to.
Ms. Vidulich
I liked this despite myself. Can you put the pictures up higher within the article? I’d like to have an image in mind while reading. Also, I don’t know about the new blog title “Adventures in Soberville”. I might be pigeon-holing you a bit. It makes me, as a reader, see things more in term of soberness and drunkenness. Which is fine with these two recent blogs, but it might not be desirable with other topics where the consumption (or not) of alcohol is less present (or absent) from the story.
The actual name of my blog is ‘the brittnee’…Adventures in Soberville is just that line under it, but it got put on the blog roll that way. I would need a tutorial on how to put the pictures different places because that’s something I am still figuring out. Thanks for your feedback!
So do you want me to change the title on the blogroll? It takes like 5 seconds so just let me know,
Thanks Tegan…it doesn’t really matter to me. I will leave the executive decision up to you!
I love the ease of your writing! So fluid, and funny.
Thank you Miguel!
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