Now, I am the first to admit that Knoxville is a casual town. There is maybe one restaurant where you'd be turned away for dressing too casually, but even there they might just seat you in a dark corner behind a ficus. So tell me, why did it irritate the fire out of me to see a group of guys walk in wearing the Good Southern Boy Uniform of seersucker shorts and loafers with no socks?
Actually, even worse than loafers with no socks, they were BUCKS with no socks. God, I hate this look so much. I hate it enough that my sweet husband snuck outside while they were taking a smoke break to snap this (bad) cellphone picture:
UGH. Everything about this chafes. The salmon pink shirt, his overgrown frat boy haircut, and most of all, those shoes. HATE.
This is not to mean that I hate seersucker shorts at all. In a casual backyard barbeque situation I am all for it.
Of course, these people also BROUGHT THEIR OWN CASE OF MILLER LITE AND MADE THE WAITRESS BRING IT TO THEM. Sorry for the caps, but DID YOU JUST READ THAT? This is a fine restaurant with a wonderful selection of wines and Belgian beers, and they sat there and downed Miller Lites and GOD they just made me so upset I could barely eat my pistachio creme brulee! Barely.
Sadly, there is little that can be done about the Chucklehead. We have lots of them here, too.
ReplyDeleteAthens, GA is FULL of those kinds of guys. Those are the same guys that wear the red pants covered with bulldogs to the home games and make me want to stab them with my kebob skewer. The sad thing is, they're not men, just overgrown boys.
ReplyDeleteAnd who wears bucks without socks? That is just wrong on so many levels. Loafers, yes. Bucks, NO.
Oh yes, those are the guys. Is it the Southern University thing? Do these guys exist outside of the south? I need to know. For Science.
ReplyDeleteWrong on so many levels. Miller Light? Shorts? Not appreciating that lovely place? Did they also bring in sandwiches from Subway because the food on the menu just seemed to "weird" to them? Or wait, maybe they ordered everything well done?
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is just a southern thing. I showed Matt and he immediately commented that the horrid shorts and Miller Lite is something his brothers would do. I then realized my mother would be right along with them, only swapping the khaki for denim shorts (preferably embellished) and beer for Diet Coke and Voda.
ReplyDeleteAnd because I am on a mad rant I have to add that their slouching and lounging as if they are on their back patio at home is killing me.
ReplyDeleteI hate this look and behavior. I'm sure they thought swapping their flip-flops for bucks made this a-ok for a nice restaurant.
ReplyDeleteYour husband is so awesome for taking that pic for you! :) Atrocious!
ReplyDeleteUh-oh. I own seersucker shorts. Although, I do not arrange to drape them under my paunch.
ReplyDeleteThe Venn Diagram of this look and men who are complete douchebags is so overlapped it's practically just one big circle.
ReplyDeleteHa!
ReplyDeleteI so hope the waitress charged them a cork-fee and auto-grated them.
ReplyDeleteI can't get over the idea of bringing in your own Miller Lite. It's one thing to bring in some special wine, or something fancier than a location serves . . . but Miller fucking LITE?! Does not compute.
ReplyDelete