Here's yer sign

[Platyrhynchos]

I was nursing a cold Budweiser in a, uh, “watering hole” the other day. Said watering hole also sells nightcrawlers.
Anyway, this guy comes in and gets a Mountain Dew and two dozen nightcrawlers. The guy who sold him the worms said, “Are you going fishing?”

Good thing I wasn't in mid-nurse.

Other such “duh” moments you've witnessed/been part of?

 

[John]

Maybe the Dew was to wash down the nightcrawlers.

 

[boots]

I was nursing a cold Budweiser in a, uh, ?watering hole? the other day. Said watering hole also sells nightcrawlers.
Anyway, this guy comes in and gets a Mountain Dew and two dozen nightcrawlers. The guy who sold him the worms said, ?Are you going fishing??

Good thing I wasn't in mid-nurse.

Other such ?duh? moments you've witnessed/been part of?

He could have been feeding a pet.

 

[The Big Ragu]

OK... Maybe this says more about me than you... But your story begins with you in a bar... You say a guy walks in and orders two dozen nightcrawlers. I have NO IDEA what a nighcrawler is, so my best guess is that it is a drink I have never heard of. Of course, that doesn't explain why someone is ordering two dozen of them. The only thing remotely analogous in my world was a bar I used to hang out in that was running an ecstacy ring I was clueless about until someone got arrested. And I have no idea what you said to order pills. So this is what I am left with: 1) I still don't know for sure what a nighcrawler is, but I have a pretty good guess from the responses. 2) Is it common for a bar to have such a side business?

 

[John]

Nightcrawlers:

 

[Platyrhynchos]

Thank you, JOhn.

And, in my little corner of BFE, it is appropriate commonplace for watering holes to sell bait. I should have explained a little more on the nightcrawler thing. I forget that a lot of us are surrounded by concrete and steel.

 

[JR]

"Bruce's Booze & Bait".

 

[alleyallen]

In Texas, they're called ice houses, and not only do they serve beer, they serve food, so you pray to God they don't get the beef and the nightcrawlers mixed up.