So, my wife says that I shouldn't have yelled at the waiter last night, I contend that I wasn't yelling AT him, I was just making my opinion known, with some volume.
We go down to the Ale House for dinner, dog-tired from writing (her) and painting (me). Notice there's a couple of pumpkin beers on draft, I'm not a huge fan but I'll have one or two a year, just not yesterday because it was pretty summer and I was hot. So, I get a farmhouse ale. Wife decides she wants a Shandy - it's warm and all, she likes shandies, and it's probably going to be the last one of the season.
So, I get my beer, it's fine. She gets hers... and it's pumpkin. But it's not one of the pumpkin ales that were on the menu... it's a "Pumpkin Shandy!" that they neglected to describe as having any PUMPKIN in the description. Who the **** wants a PUMPKIN SHANDY? "Pumpkin beer" and "shandy" are antithetical; you either want a light, crisp, slightly sour, lemony summer brew... or a spiced, malty autumnal beverage. THEY DON'T GO TOGETHER.
So, I let my opinion be know to the server, who informed me of the TECHNICAL definition of "shandy" ("any beer can be a shandy if you add lemonade to it") which is nonsense, because a shandy does NOT GET MADE WITH PUMPKIN PIE SPICE, AND IF IT DOES THAT INFORMATION *MUST* BE INCLUDED ON THE MENU.
But, really, I wasn't an ******* about it.