Friday's with Mark and Marbert

I haven't had the opportunity to chronicle the events of the past few Fridays with my buddies Mark and Marbert, until now.

Marbet, Mark, and myself (the 3M company) have made a semi-tradition of hitting golf balls, shooting pool, and throwing darts each Friday after work.

As some of my regular readers know, I tend to dominate in golf and darts. However, Marbert has suddenly become quite the 'dartsman'. Rumor has it, he has been taking lessons. He actually has won the last two times we have played.

As always, Marbert wins every pool match. Mark is still trying to find his groove in one of the three events. He has been taking golf lessons from my old coach Javier and has shown some signs of improving his swing.

The interesting part of the recent visit to Peabody's was that we found ourselves in a waitress vortex. When we arrived, we started to play pool and after 10 minutes, we realized that we had no waitress. So, I mentioned it to the girl who hands out the 'pool' cues. She went to find someone. Five minutes later, we finally got someone to take our order.

The odd thing is that the waitress looked just like a young Kellie Martin (she played Christie on a TV series). But that's beside the point. She took our order and we never saw her again. So, we waited and waited until another waitress comes by with our beverages and later our wings.

But, we survived. We think it was all because of the week before when the service was so bad, we left a low tip. This weeks tip was even lower. We may have to bring our own food and beverages the next time.