BREMER BIMMER MADNESS
Who in the hot holy hell rides in a CONVERTIBLE car at 5 pm in the afternoon when it’s 111 degrees outside?
Answer — Rich Bremer aka “Omaholic” and his merry band of three fools.
Yesterday. I made a last-second decision to attend the BARGE banquet due to our guest speaker, Jan Fisher. I assumed it was at the usual place–the Italian restaurant at the Westgate. So, I arrived in plenty of time only to discover the banquet was being held someplace else 5 miles away. What? They moved the banquet? No, they didn’t “move” the banquet. I just didn’t pay attention (or read the fine print).
At the casino getting ready to walk out the door, I spot Rich Bremer, one of the BARGE rulers, plus Crunch Daniel and Bruce Kramer. “You wanna’ ride with us, Nolan?”
Sure!!!
So, we walk halfway there (which means to the Westgate parking garage) and we see Rich Bremer drives a BMW convertible. WTF? Is this a goddamned joke? And we are four *big* guys. So, we pile into the matchbox on wheels and the entire way there it feels like I’m standing in front of a hair dryer with the power turned on full blast on high. I mean, who the fuck drives a convertible around Las Vegas in the late afternoon when it’s one of the hottest recorded temperatures in history (the all-time high temperature was supposed to be broken last week)? Oh, and leather seats–I think my ass is melting.
We arrive at the banquet location and discover it’s being held OUTSIDE. Out on a terrace. In the sun. Heck, after riding in Bremer’s BMW in the blast furnace of heat and wind, the outdoor terrace feels pretty damned good. I’m a dressed in a suit the whole time because I stupidly thought it was being held at an Italian restaurant and part of my DNA is that you always wear a suit to an Italian restaurant at dinnertime,
Instead, we end up at a Greek place. There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I won’t make it here.
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Note: Discover more about BARGE, the annual poker gathering HERE.