PAPA FIERCE

Last night I worked the Beyonce Concert at The Honda Center in Anaheim. Before the doors were open to the fans, we were setting up our "Miller Lite Zone" for some Bud VS. Miller taste challenges. The girls and I had just been chatting about how hungry we were and how yummy the popcorn smelled when up walks a man to our Taste Challenge Booth with a big bucket of POPCORN!!! The gentleman asked what we had going on at our booth, and I told him about the Taste Challenge (which is a blind taste test w/ two kinds of beer). I asked him if he wanted to try it, and he said that he couldn't drink because he was working. I promised him that we'd only get him "a little bit drunk" - heehee - but he still insisted that he'd have to take a pass. Once he said no to taking the challenge, I think our "group brain" decided that it was time to try to work the man for some of his popcorn, because right away my girl Shawn said, "That popcorn sure smells good." I quickly followed up with a super-dorky, "How is it? The popcorn is usually really good here." He said that on the contrary, the popcorn was stale, and then to prove his point he offered us some!! So of course like the opportunistic vultures we are, we dove on his popcorn!! He might have been right about it being stale, but to my empty belly it tasted AMAZING!!!

As the man walked off with his security in tow, I said jokingly, "That was probably Beyonce's Dad or something." Unfortunately I'm annoyingly loud, and he heard me. He looked back and smiled, and then to make me feel even more dumb the girls chimed out in unison "That was Beyonce's Dad!" Ooops. Sometimes I should just not talk. Oh well. At least we got to share a popcorn with Papa Fierce!