Life's simple annoyances

There is one thing that I've noticed lately, and especially during fantasy football viewing. I fall victim to this as well. So you say something and a few minutes later someone else says the same exact thing. See where I'm going with this, people react like the person put on steel toed boots and kicked their dog. I guess not having people listen to you that gets you mad, but is it really that bad. I know its annoying and I'm trying to figure out why this is. It is usually the persons fault since they are usually distracted. If Americas Most Wanted had a list of the top 10 offenders then Shamps would defiantly be number one. On Sundays with a laptop in tow he is probably numbers 1-10 with a 25 million dollar bounty on his head. I'm waiting for that long haired on tv to come barging through the door to capture pamps, dog the bounty hunter is the guys name i think. He will almost certainly say the same thing you said moments after you do. It is usually a score that happened or a stat that is interesting. He usually gets reamed out for such putrid behavior.
There are usually levels of responses people get. the first one and most common one is the straight out yell, the "hey, i just said that". this is the most frequent and best to use as long as the yell is not overboard. If the same person has multiple offenses towards you or others in the room then you are allowed to yell even more with each subsequent offense. It is hard to respond to it, you can either say sorry or stay quiet there is no real fighting it.
The second way to respond is the sarcastic response. the good ole' "man, wish i had said that" This one gets tricky for the person because they usually say the original statement with such gusto, like they are adding valuable information to the conversation. I love when the person is so happy to figure something out or is anticipating congratulations for saying something with such smarts and gets utterly crushed when they hear that it was said moments before. I love when the person says it, and in their mind they don't think anyone heard it so they say it again and then get yelled at. Those are classic moments.

Jelly Milkshake ????

Quick side story, some my accuse this whole entire blog as one massive side story but those people are just jealous, anyway, I was at Shaw's and i was getting my essentials, to be more specific i was getting a squeeze bottle of jelly, and while i was checking out, the bag man came over to bag my stuff, and he says "oh is this a syrup to make a drink with milk" REALLY GUY !!! tell me one person who would ever in their right mind drink a jelly milk drink. It is not a new product, and by working as a bag man, you would think he would have seen someone buying a squeeze bottle of jelly. This guy seemed pretty normal for all accounts based on the way he acted and what he said. I had a squeeze bottle of ketchup too, why didn't he ask if that was a breakfast mix or something. I should have said yeah and see that deli turkey, I'm going to blend that up and make a turkey smoothie. I hate that Shaw's anyway because it is so small, but I'm almost scared to go back in there now. It just teaches you to not be lazy, if I was not lazy I would never had to have that interaction and frankly i think i would have been better off, but in the end i did get a pretty good story, and I could not make this up. I was floored by it, the worst part was the cashier was not even phased by it, i wonder if this guy goes around and says weird things like that all the time. Ok time to end this i just heard the microwave beep, my warm cup of jelly milk is ready. Drink Up !!

Smelly People

There are few things in the world that I find more annoying than people that smell, but more specifically people that smell and dont realize it because they get all up in your business. This whole rant is sparked by me yesterday being at the gym on the elliptical, and there were plenty of them but this guy just walked into the gym and sure enough got on the one directly next to me. I am very conscience of buffers but this guy seemed foreign, so i can give him a pass on that. I could see if he was there already and smelled but he smelled when he walked into the gym. I was already well into mine so stopping was not really an option, the only way you can get out of it is when you get on second and realize right away and then quickly get off and go to a new one. Just pretend the headphone socket or something does not work. I dont want to make them feel bad, because if im on there working up a sweat im sure i dont smell like roses and there have been times where someone did that to me, but at least i didnt smell like a diaper when i walked in. The same thing goes for people on the T, i understand that on the T it is hard to get space, but there is nothing worse than when people reek on the t, and they always want to reach up and grab the highest part possible on the bar and their neitherreigons of their arms are exposed to put it nicely. That reminds me, one time me and the kellster were on a T and there was a commonly seen Boston bum on there and he smelled so bad that no one was sitting within 5 rows of him, we got on saw open seats and sat down, then smelled and realized why they were open and got up, people were covering their mouths with their shirts. It was pretty bad.

Buffer zones should apply for all circumstances when possible. If there are multiple elliptical open then dont take one next to someone who is already on one. Same goes for urinals for any place outside of a ballgame, if you are at a sporting event then all buffer rules go out the window. If you sit down at McDonald's or the movie theatre you dont sit next to a stranger if you can help it. So why not apply that logic all over the place? Seems to make sense to me. But i guess i am just more sensible than most.

I love when old people at the gym work out in non work out attire, there are plenty of guys that work out in cargo shorts or collared shirts and cargo shorts. There is one older woman that goes to the downtown crossing gym she works out in a sweater and jeans, she probably just leaves and continues on with her day without changing. It has to be an age thing because you dont really see younger people doing that. There has to be something that happens because you never see anyone wearing regular clothes working out that hard, you always see them on the weight machines lifting 10 lbs, I wonder if there is a mental thing of not working hard because they are not wearing workout clothes, if you have on shorts and a t shirt i wonder if that makes you work harder. That brings me to another issue the people that overdress for the gym, this is the guy with the workout gloves, the mesh athletic shirt, ankles tapped, the weight lifting belt, the arm wrap for his ipod, the headband, the little notebook for all his lifts, the giagantic water bottle for his protien shake and the bandana. It takes him more time to get ready than it does for me to workout, this is they guy that grunts as he lifts and walks around between sets so everyone can see him. Good job guy you look like an athlete and you grunt now i wonder how much your manhood shrunk from the steroids.

I think i'll end it here, all this work out talk makes me want to go wor... just kidding im going to grab a bag of cheetos, at least its the 100 calorie variety.

Quick Picks and Bets

Ok gotta make it short and sweet. After a little misstep last week, who in their right mind would have seen the oakland victory coming.


My Picks on the left

GB -7.5 @ Cleveland
San Diego -4.5 @ KC
Indy -13.5 @ STL
Pitt -4.5 vs. Minn
NE - 14.5 vs. TB
Bills +7.5 vs. Car
Jets -6.5 vs. Oakland
Bears +1.5 vs. Cin
Dallas -3.5 vs. Atl
Mia +6.5 vs. Saints
Giants -7.5 vs Cards
Philly -7.5 vs. Washington

Last Week 7-7 Third week in a row :{

Overall 51-38 57.3%

Bets - Lost 200 last week still have 503 to play with.

3 Team Teaser Indy, Pats, Greenbay 200 pays 168, time to get it back from last week.

Live the Dream

My Run-Ins with Celebrities

****Disclaimers***** These are b,c,d etc list celebrities, mostly sports related. Also these are not shows or anywhere that they are supposed to be, these are just random run-ins.

In no particular order.

Glen Big-Baby Davis

Location - downtown crossing, he was walking down the street with a hoodie over his head as to not be discovered by the public, one problem you are 6'8 and rather large, he ducked into starbucks and i followed and shook his hand, only because others chased him and got his autograph, he was really nice to the kids though.

Tony Allen

Location - The Pru, saw him with his entourage he left the pru and ducked into a heavily tinted escalade, im shocked he didnt injure himself going down the escalator. No one really recognized him, even if they did there probably would not be nice things said about him.

Bob Vila

Location - Logan. The true Home Improvement king, not much fan fare around bobby, he basically went on his way with no problems shocking. I was only about 10 so it was kinda cool seeing someone that was on one of my favorite shows in Home Improvement.

Brian Daubach

Location - The Baseball Tavern, this is one of my personal favorite encounters, working the door i actually got to talk to dauber, he was partially recognized by people, more so people came up to me after he left and said " was that daubach". He stayed with the owner and got free beers all night, he went home with a cougar, and came back an hour later with a cheeky smile. The owner has a apartment right near the tavern, and rumor had it that he brought her back there and made sweet sweet love then came back only to leave at the end of the night with someone else, gotta love dauber.

Lou Merloni

Location - The Copley Mall - he was being forced to go shopping with his wife it looked like. He became much more recognizable after his short playing career as a Red Sox media member.

Mike Lowell

Location- Outside a hotel in downtown.
I walked by mickey dubbs, and he is a monster in person, I didnt want to bother him since he seemed busy talking to someone in a suit, probably an agent.

Mike Timlin- Location walking near McDonalds near Fenway Park - Me and John saw him hours before a Red Sox game, he is a true tower of a man, much bigger than he looked on TV, we didn't bother him since he probably gets that all the time.

Craig Sager, Chip Carey, Buck Martinez.

Location- The Baseball Tavern - Craig and his purple suit were in all its glory that night, him and buck were quite the ladies man, whereas boring ass chip carey left early. His suits look bad on TV in person they are 56x as bad. Buck Martinez is about 5 foot 1.

Sean Mcdonough

Location- The Baseball Tavern - He was so drunk and sloppily dancing all over the place with a beat red face.

Weei Personalities. Butch Stearns, Mike Adams Steve Burton and Pete Shepherd. This was much more enjoyable to me as it would be to others, I actually saw the sweater vested burton at target really nice guy.

Tim Fox - former Pats Player

Location- Baseball Tavern - nothing to really say about this guy.

Tom Caron

Location- Running across mass ave heading to starbucks, we saw him and followed him. He has the world.s biggest head, and a can of moose in his back pocket, typical TV personality.

Kendrick Perkins

Location- the elevator during monster jam, the elevator attendant would not let him get on which was really funny, Perkins didnt say "do you know who i am" but you can tell he was thinking it.

Greg Dickerson

Location- Mass Pike - he wizzed by me on the pike with his little BMW and his little bluetooth.

Manny

Location- Driving near cambridge, we followed him for a while in his really nice mercedes convertable.

Bob Saget

Location- Hampton Beach parking lot and all the way back to Boston.
Me and John saw him in the parking lot, he was talking to people and we basically followed his car all the way back to boston making full house jokes.

700 Dollars Won if you followed me.

My picks on the left

Houston +4.5 @ Cincy
GB -13.5 vs. Lions
Minnesota -2.5 vs. Ravens
Saints -3.5 vs. Giants
Carolina -3.5 @ TB
KC +6.5 @ WASHINGTON
Jags - 9.5 vs. Rams
Pitt -14.5 vs. Browns
Seattle -3.5 vs. Cards
Philly -14.5 @ oakland
Jets - 9.5 vs. Bills
Pats -9.5 vs. Titans
Falcons -3.5 vs. Bears
Denver +4.5 @ SD

Last Week 7-7
Overall 44-31 58.6%


We have 703 to play with lets do

3 team tease Philly -4.5, GB -3.5 Pats +.5

200 pays 166

Live the Dream

Creepy Guy Returned

If you read previous posts you would have read about the creepy guy that came and fixed my computer at work. Well sadly he came back yesterday to fix my computer, he had to install a new mother board. I didn't think it was possible but he even got more creepy. I have to escort him through the building due to security reasons, so i basically sat there while he put in the new mother board. I know it sounds exciting but it really really isn't. He started off by talking about how tired he was and that he needed more caffeine which is normal enough, he quickly went on to explain how his back hurt, and asked if i knew that people have 2 separate vertebrae in their tailbone and that they fuse together at some point in your development. He went on to explain that his somehow didn't and that he should be more flexible but the doctors told him that he wouldn't be. With all this excitement i managed to get a nerf ball off my managers desk to play with while i sat there and watched him unscrew 45424 little bolts on the inside of the computer. He made a big deal about this, i would say strange behavior but with him i wouldn't know what is considered strange for him. If you need a reminder he is 5'4 red hair, very high squeaking voice and i am almost positive he wore the same cheap Steve and Barry's sweater that he had on last time. Any way i put down the nerf ball and picked up a nerf football and out of no where and about 10 octaves louder that necessary he shouted out " you changed balls" causing everyone with in 15 cubes of me to stand and look. At this point everyone around me hates that fact that he is back since he was the butt of so many jokes last time he left.

It gets weirder actually, he was fascinated with the nerf balls and proceeded to tell me that he plays dungeons and dragons, and that his dungeon master sometimes throws balls at them when they get goofy. At this point i swear you could hear a pin drop until i heard everyone around my typing, they were all im'ing people to make fun of this guy, and the fact that he laughs awkwardly after every sentence he says. There are many shocking moments in history but the fact that this guy said he plays dungeons and dragons is probably the least shocking moment since Lance Bass admitted that he boards the dude train. This whole process of changing the motherboard took about 65 mins too long for my liking. If my computer breaks again i might just do everything by hand and sent mail through the post office instead of email just to avoid a possible interaction with this guy again.

I am basically at his mercy though, he could get mad at me and intentionally screw up and i would be shit out of luck as it had already been a week plus since i had my old computer back and i was very sick of cube hopping. There are many people that no matter how annoying they are you cant really say anything mean cuz they could screw you over, some examples are barber, mechanic, anyone handling your deli meats and waitresses since they could spit in your food. If i ever seen Barry J Wilkins Jr again it will be too soon.

P.S. Congrats to Viola and Jeff on the birth of Mae !!