“Three Olive Martini Guy”

I was at the bar at Gordon Bierch having gotten my beer killing time with some friends before heading to the Columbus Blue Jackets game and some guy pushed up to the bar after me to order a drink. He motioned the bartender over and ordered a “Vodka Martini with THREE olives!”.

• The emphasis was his.

The bartender asked what kind of Vodka he wanted. The man said he did not care, and inquired what the house vodka was, and said it was fine, but, make sure it has three olives!

• He.Did.Not.Care.About.The.Vodka.

Seriously? It is a VODKA Martini, the vodka is first for a reason. An Olive is a garnish. Would you ever order a steak with extra parsley and not stress the cut of the meat, or the amount it was cooked? Sometimes people focus on the one thing that doesn’t matter and completely miss the big picture. People will fixate on a car they want to buy because it has a cool feature and not look at gas mileage, or talk to a mechanic before buying it.

• Side note: Find yourself a great mechanic and run your future car purchases by him. We have one now (too late for my wife’s car) but I will run ANY future car purchase by him and pay him for his time. I would never have known that the Ford Focus’s transmission dies between 60k and 80k in every car he has worked on. Ours died at 38. The Warranty ran out at 36. So, buy the 100k warranty on a Ford Focus.

Not to go on too long, but next time you are faced with a choice take a second to make sure you are focusing on what really matters, and not an olive.

• Watching: StarWars: The Clone Wars
• Listening: Afro Samurai 2: RZA
• Reading: Apathy and Other Small Victories
• Playing: Little Big Planet
• Creating: 1 Page Comic