Always Up to No Good

Yesterday we had a nice dinner in the North Beach section of town. The eight of us were at an Irish Pub/Curry House called Kennedy’s for the monthly supper club. It was a pretty cool joint, about 100 different beers and they even had Big Buck Hunter, the first time I’ve seen it in this city.

Some of the girls didn’t like the fact that there was no hard alcohol, only beer is sold at Kennedy’s. They cruised next door to The International Club to get some cocktails, while the guys finished up our deer shooting and pool games before going next door.

Five of us (JR, Doug, Becca, Diana and myself) decided to head back into our neighborhood around midnight. As we stepped into the night air, the first thing we encounter is a chauffer getting out of the backseat of a limo. “How much for a ride back to The Sunset?” Doug asks. The chauffer replied, “Make me an offer I can’t refuse”. Quickly, Doug comes up with a number, “How about $55?” The chauffer had a very brief response, “Get in”.

Sweet! So we pile into the backseat of the limo and are giggling that we don’t have to worry about catching a couple of cabs to go home. I crawl in and immediately find a half-bottle of champagne that was on ice. We quickly realized that this limo had been hired by someone else, and we had hijacked it so the chauffer could make a quick $50. Awesome. As a result, I helped myself to the bottle of Korbel.

We cruise around the city, heading back towards our neighborhood while the smooth sounds of “Tha Doggfather” is blasting out of the limo’s windows. At some point, the driver asked us if we were Giants fans. We all admitted that we were not, but found out that our driver composes and sings songs about the SF Giants. We were very excited and had him pass his CD into the backseat so we could shove it in the player. The only song we had a chance to hear was about how awesome Barry Bonds is and how cool the new park is and about how much he likes John Miller (Giants announcer). The driver told us that he composes and records the songs under the moniker “The San Fran Fan Man”.

His website is www.sanfranfanman.com. Unfortunately, his music isn’t working on the site right now, but it was fantastic.

I woke up this morning with vague memories of talking to a member of an Arnold Schwarzenegger tribute band called Arno-Corps, but the Korbel had fogged my memory quite a bit. This town is fun.