Jimmy Buffet Don't Love Us

I had to tell this story that happened Feb. 26th in Panama City Beach, Florida.

We were at the Calypso Bar and Grill across from the Driftwood Lodge on our last night in town and sitting outside at their back tiki bar overlooking the small lake, having a beer, and listening to a one man band who said he was impersonating a band and playing great music when a group of party folk came in.

Judging from the beads, they had evidently been down at the St. Andrew's Mardi Gras parade all afternoon and had also been to a few places before getting to us and definitely feeling no pain.

One guy was especially funny, who immediately asked the entertainer to play a song, "Anything as long as it wasn't Jimmy Buffett!!" At which point, the guy on the stage started strumming the introduction to "Pencil Thin Mustache" which really got the guy going.

At one point, he threatened to jump into the lake butt naked if Jimmy Buffett was played, which started another Buffett song. Someone yelled that wouldn't be fair to the gators in the water if he did.

Then, we heard that even though Buffett has the tourist rip-off Margaritaville at Pier Point Park, that Jimmy didn't love us here at PCB.

Fortunately, the entertainer played another guy's song, so the guy calmed down a bit.

I kind of agree with the guy, that Buffett these days seems more interested in how much money he can make than with his fans. Just go into any of his Margaritaville stores and look at the prices of anything.

Maybe JB Really Doesn't Like Us No More? --RoadDog