I, cock-blocker

From Creative Loafing Tampa:

I wanted to engage the three University of Tampa cheerleaders seated at the far end of the bar. They drank their pints of beer through straws. Spoke in loud, cute voices about Sex in the City. But we never talked. I never even got to make eye contact with any of them. Nope, spent my post-work hour at The Retreat apologizing for the writing style of CL columnist Andisheh Nouraee.

The nature of my offense? It appears at least one Tampa bar-goer finds my writing style overly ornate:

The Stranger -- a middle-age fellow -- wasn't your average bar fly. In fact, in my decade of frequenting drinking establishments, I had never before heard anyone at a pub drop a word like "filigree," which The Stranger used in critiquing Nouraee's column.