Speaking truth, the written word & some sarcasm. Not available in stores…
We here the chants come during march Madness. The chants as “lesser” teams beat teams they shouldn’t.
You can hear it in your head can’t you.
“OVER – RATED (Clap Clap, CLAP CLAP CLAP) Over – RATED”
But I had a friend who said to me today that “Bacon was overrated.”
What? Really? In my mind I told him that I could tell him 5 things off the top of my head that were more overrated than Bacon. So he challenged me to name 10.
Fine. You asked for it.
As a kid, I was terrible in sports, I wouldn’t shut up and I did not have anything that I could call a significant sports success. I could tell you about leading the pony league of baseball in walks, strikeouts and being hit by pitch but that delays my point.
I don’t remember any of the strikeouts today. None of them. I don’t remember the disappointments of my father, if he had any, that I wasn’t going to be a superstar. Because that wasn’t important to me or to my family.
What was important was making an effort.
I let a day go by after the game, trying to think of the nice way to put it, but it is time to rip the band aid off this season. The Red Raiders aren’t that good. Yes, they seem to be good against Little Sisters of the Poor and Miscellaneous State but when it […]
today I was greeted by the rudest, angriest, nastiest woman next to an ex girlfriend. She got mad at ME because I called HER out on getting MY order wrong. Now, I am one of the most easiest going guys around, but when I come to your place and expect to get what I ordered when I ask for it, when YOU get it wrong, you shouldn’t suggest that I go somewhere else.
Because when I leave…
Recently I was in a restaurant when two people came in to play the game, “I’m better than everyone else.” This is the game where they flaunt their wealth, their knowledge and their ignorance.
From discussing how they “really didn’t need to work, but if they didn’t,” they would spend “all day watching the maid clean,” to how “ignorant people are allowing this country to fall,” to snidely talking about the waitress, “I don’t care about her short hair or her tattoos.” They filled the room with their tripe.