I woke up Friday morning to the sound of a ferris wheel and a petting zoo being built right outside of my apartment. I walked out onto my balcony and to my left were live pigs in a cage, and to my right were pork smokers. Essentially – there was a full out county fair in the middle of Uptown Charlotte … the Blues, Brews, and BBQ Festival.
I’m just not comprehending the concept of having live pigs in the same vicinity as their pits of death like those little piggies were on death row. I personally don’t want to see Wilbur before I eat him. But considering how many people were in my front yard pigging out on pig, I am thinking that’s just me.
Tryon Street was like Taste of Charlotte – but all there was to taste was championship BBQ. With a hint of the Greek Festival that was on East Blvd.
The “city fair” was the Olympics of BBQ’ing, the pig chefs were wearing numbers like they were in a marathon. And they camped out (in the parking lot right across from my balcony) like at a NASCAR race.
And at the end of the night I watched all the policemen crowded around their trucks scarfing down BBQ – I suppose it was a nice change from donuts. And when the festival came to a close on Saturday night, the septic tank came and pumped out all the port-a-pottys (again, right in front of my balcony).
So, now my condo reeks of not only cooking pigs … but shit. (It kinda reminded me of my hometown in Virginia actually, which has a lingering aroma of chicken feed and manure). But those in my house thought it a good idea to place a wager on the game of Connect Four we were playing – loser has to go down and use the porta-potty. I lost. But then we decided we were all losers because we were playing Connect Four on a Saturday night.
When I went to bed the parking lot had emptied out and the streets re-opened… and then I woke up to a Panther’s Tailgate, which said parking lot magically transformed into overnight. There is always some sort of festival going on in Charlotte (usually right under my balcony apparently) … but up next is Festival in the Park, in Freedom Park starting Sept. 24
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