in this thread please find me interesting and exciting things to do in springfield MA

[Baliset]

i'll be there for a conference from tomorrow night through Friday.

I'll start with the obvious Basketball Hall of Fame/alien landing facility:

 

[minxnim]

my god what a piece of work. isn't there a dr. seuss museum or something like that?

also, THE FORT is this crazy german restaurant and they have the craziest beer ever which they serve to you IN A BOOT.

 

[xfer]

i was sure this would be a zero-reply thread.

 

[Baliset]

me too but i am seriosuly looking at being bored out of my wits at night there, aside from maybe taking a swim in the hotel pool.

 

[lizard]

prep, bier boots are awesome! I have a two liter one at home. they're fun because if you hold the boot the wrong way while you are drinking from it, when the air flows into the toe/foot of the boot, the bier gushes out on the drinker.

 

[Baliset]

and apparently this is my door man

 

[Baliset]

and here will be me and my professional colleagues relaxing after a long day of conferencing and networking:

 

[Baliset]

and this is where i'll spend most of my evenings alone and bored:

 

[minxnim]

i'm not kidding really go to the fort! also, there are a ton of strip clubs also there's this awful dance club that is highly amusing called 'the asylum' i call it the 'ass-slum' but they do have good bootyrock on friday nights.

 

[Baliset]

i wonder if i could go to the strip club and bring back receipts for reimbursement for berklee.

boss:greg what is this receipt for?

me: oh that was the lap dance i got at the strip club.

boss: do you really expect berklee to cover this?

me: have you ever been to springfield? i rest my case.

 

[minxnim]

sayin

 

[Baliset]

also bootyrock could be fun but i won't be there friday night.

but the fort sounds nifty!

boss: what are these charges on this restaurant receipt?

me: oh that's for when i drank beer out of a boot.

boss: do you really expect berklee to cover this?

me: geez stop being so anti-cultural. i was just trying to experience the german nightlife a little.

 

[lizard]

omg it looks like the waitstaff has to wear funky umpire clothes like at footlocker

 

[minxnim]

the fort is fun. when i worked in lenox ma my uncle had another office in springfield. every christmas we'd go to the fort at noon and spend 7 hours there getting shitfaced on german wine and beer (this includes my mom for chrissakes) one time my mom puked down the side of her bronco in the parking lot it was awesome.

the waitstaff is totally bitchy and indifferent and they wear old school german girl outfits.

 

[Baliset]

the waitstaff is totally bitchy and indifferent and they wear old school german girl outfits.

hott

 

[FalseTodd]

You could drive up to the Waitley diner and (not) get a milkshake.

 

[minxnim]

oh man i miss that place!

 

[Baliset]

or i could order a sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich and have the waitress bring it to me with the top portion of the bun missing and tell me it fell on the floor and walk away.

 

[FalseTodd]

That place is famous for never serving Toby Driver a milkshake. Like, 20 visits running.

 

[Baliset]

also i could go to the waitley diner and meet a shitfaced iced earth fan who will show me his tatoo on his chest and then awkwardly avoid me at the worcester metalfest the next day when sober.