I really hate street festivals.

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. This year’s unofficial theme was “Sam and Marcy forever,” and to celebrate we’ve got dinner reservations tonight at Hattie’s, a fun, upscale restaurant in the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff that specializes in MODERN SOUTHERN CUISINE. (Translation: fried green tomatoes and cloth napkins.) Except 10 minutes ago while I’m browsing around on DallasNews.com I notice there’s a huge weekend street festival in Oak Cliff that starts today at noon and runs through 9 p.m Sunday. It’s some weird event called Blues, Bandits and Barbecue honoring a local dead guitarist that includes 23 restaurants in tents for a barbecue cookoff, a live music stage, lots of sweaty people eating ribs and lousy parking in a neighborhood that’s already too congested. And although the poster wants you to believe everything starts at noon Sunday, they’re LYING. The news article posted alongside it said all the major access streets in Oak Cliff will be blocked off starting at noon TODAY to built the stage, set up the tents and haul in all that restaurant equipment. Plus they’re expecting a bunch of street musicians. (I hope they have a swell time. It’s supposed to be 94° with 78% humidity.)

What this means is, bottom line, we definitely have to reschedule our dinner reservation at Hattie’s. I’m thinking maybe we’ll wait until my mother-in-law is here in October ... so maybe we can celebrate our anniversary with dim sum this morning instead at Kirin Court in Richardson. (I love dim sum.) Now I have to break this to Sam. Oy.