April 30, 2008
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1 We wuz robbed.
2 I meant the Giants, not the Sharks.
3 The Sharks scored a goal that didn't count, right in front of God and everybody.
4 Tim Lincecum was called for a balk right after the umpire had called time.
5 Whoops.
6 I was gonna lay off sports for a while.
7 But come on!
8 Two entirely different games, two entirely different sports, and hideous officiating in both.
9 Ah, I'm used to it.
10 Sports.
11 Sometimes I wish I was just a Dancing With the Stars fanatic or something.
12 Yeesh.
13 I'm too old for this.
14 I've had my thousand natural shocks, and I still get annoyed by everything. I try not to, but I've reached the point where I can predict when people are going ot get annoying.
15 You not only get wiser when you get older, you become downright clairvoyant.
16 I knew that some annoying call was going to cost the Sharks their game.
17 I knew that as stupid as the call was in the Giants' game that our manager had to fight it and that he would get booted.
18 Stuff like that happens all the time in our own lives. For example, we had some deal going on at the school yesterday that was just inviting this annoying woman to confront me, even though the event itself had nothing to do with me. I was just called in to help out.
19 I knew this woman was going to be at the event, and I also predicted she would attack me two nights ago, and just like clockwork she came out of nowhere and started harping at me about something I had nothing to do with.
20 I just smiled. It was SO ridiculously predictable that I actually loved when she asked, "Are YOU responsible for blah blah blah?!?!?!?!?!" She was absolutely livid, and angry with me for something I had utterly nothing to do with. I even predicted it aloud the night before last. Somehow, I thought, that woman is going to zoom on a broom and screech to a halt right in front of me, hop off, and come unglued about something I had nothing to do with.
21 She had done the same thing to me last year, and just HATED me, even though I had done nothing remotely wrong. So at some point in her frabjous world, I had become a hideous gargoyle, a Daemon of the worst sort.
22 Happens.
23 People have issues and take their insecurities out on you.
24 It always amuses me when it happens. They then hold some sort of grudge for the remainder of their years.
25 I almost smiled and said, "Hey, it's not my fault you hate your father!"
26 But I didn't. Fear not. Class act over here. Not always. Okay, hardly ever, but who's counting?
27 But seriously. I think I enjoy it because I've personally resolved a lot of those sorts of things that I used to take out on others. So when I see that behavior in others, I just sort of smile because I used to be exactly like that.
28 You live and learn. Sometimes you can measure your own progress by watching someone else acting the way you USED to.
29 So I'm glad I didn't say anything that would have been hurtful, but it also sort of felt nice that I didn't take anything this woman said to heart.
30 And the older I get, the more people get harsh about things. When you are younger and prettier, the world seems much more forgiving about virtually everything, but once you look like a crotchety old coot, they throw invisible frying pans at you, and wish hundreds of horrid wishes and curses on you and yours. Pure, bonafide hatred.
31 It becomes absurd the more innocent you are, because they hate you with a violent passion even though you've done virtually nothing to hurt them.
32 Anyway, I became rightfully smug when the entire accusation was directed at me rather than the person who did whatever it was she was all up in a tizzy about.
33 I just smiled and informed her that she had the wrong fellow.
34 She walked away with a look on her face like I had just torched her village.
35 I just thought, "WTF?"
36 "Why the face?"
37 Bad call, ma'am.
38 Bad call, ump.
39 Bad call, ref.
40 And really, the beauty part in all of it is that when I was younger, I would have screamed all night about the Sharks' stolen goal, or of the ridiculous call by the umpire, or of the impertinence of that lady.
41 But instead I just moved along and enjoyed the rest of my day.
42 It is what it is.
43 That's the newest. "It is what it is."
44 Aight then.
45 Lessons in life. Three people in this story balked, and young Tim Lincecum wasn't one of them. Nor was I. We are born innocent, just like the song.
46 Some fun.
47 Have a lovely day.
48 Peace.
~H~
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