NY Mets Choke Job, Another CVS Run, Late September BBQ, and the Hope Solo Smackdown
Quick-hitters (a food coma induced version):
- So I’ve got my sister’s fried computer in front of me. Too bad I can’t move, or I’d consider fiddling around with the system right now.
- I hate Fantasy Football.
(more on that another time)
- While grocery shopping today, I experienced a terrible case of deja-freaking-vu. You might recall my blogging about…ahem…”wide” shoppers and how they love blocking aisles with their…um…gifts. Well, as I left the produce section, and turned my cart into aisle #2, guess what I saw? Yeah, another big-boned individual blocking the entire aisle!
(The first time I saw this incident last week, it was also in aisle #2, at almost exactly the same place.)
Unlike last time, the woman wasn’t alone! While she was blocking the aisle with her presence, she was talking to a friend, who was facing me as I was waiting for them to move! I decided to only wait 10 seconds, this time, before skipping that aisle and moving on.
I really really hate stupid people!
- How much does it suck right about now to be a NY Mets fan? They had a seven game lead with less than a month left in the season, and then they came from ahead to tank big time, capping the tank job with an 8-1 loss to the Florida Marlins. Couple that with the Phillies’ win over the Washington Nationals, and the Mets will be watching the playoffs from home instead of taking part in them. And what a way to blow it! Tom Glavine couldn’t even get out of the first inning, giving up seven runs in a third of an inning!
*gag*
How huge was the meltdown?
No major league team had owned a lead of seven games or more with 17 to play and failed to finish in first place. New York, which had that margin on Sept. 12, matched the largest lead blown in September.
On Friday, Mets 3B David Wright said something to the effect of “We’re right where we want to be.” I chuckled when I first heard that, and now I’m really laughing.
(What can I say? I love epic meltdowns much more so than unbelievable triumphs.)
- Before our grocery store/trip down memory lane, we hit up CVS for an awesome CVS run. I picked up tons of cough medicine (I’m not sick, but think preemptive strike!), tons of shampoo, Tide detergent (with Downy; only the best for me!), tissues, Dawn dish washing soap, and some other junk (including a bottle of cleaner on clearance for a buck). After my huge stack of coupons, and the one Extra Care buck ($3) in my wallet, I ended up spending $50, but I got back $19 in ECBs + a $5 MIR.
Now THAT’s a hot deal!
(Tangent: I was aware that drugs that contained pseudoephedrine were not stocked on drug store shelves. However, I didn’t know that you had to provide an ID to buy them. Actually, not only do you have to show ID, but CVS actually took my ID, swiped it into their system, and made me sign something swearing that I wouldn’t use the medicine for illicit purposes, or something like that. According to my receipt, one is allowed to buy no more than 3.6g of pseudoephedrine a day; that comes out to about 120 tablets of cold medicine…)
- I don’t know if you know this, but I love BBQ. We had beef short ribs, pork, orange bell pepper, and Italian squash on the grill tonight.
(If you’ve never had grilled Italian squash, you are totally missing out. Apologies if I’ve said this before, but I’m convinced that BBQing would make a pine cone taste good.)
My mom bought some Korean BBQ marinade for the meat, and OMG. Top that off with a salad and a huge bowl of potato salad, and you can understand why I’m food coma-tose right now.
Ugh…
- And finally, I have to admit that I am now a huge women’s soccer fan. Well, at least I’m a huge Hope Solo fan.
(She is the US Women’s Soccer Goalkeeper, or at least she was their goalie.)
After being benched for the team’s semifinal match against Brazil, and after being mopped off the floor by a score of 4-0, here’s what Solo had to say about her coach’s decision to bench her for 37-year-old Brianna Scurry:
“It was the wrong decision, and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There’s no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is it’s not 2004 anymore. It’s not 2004. And it’s 2007, and I think you have to live in the present. And you can’t live by big names. You can’t live in the past. It doesn’t matter what somebody did in an Olympic gold medal game in the Olympics three years ago. Now is what matters, and that’s what I think.”
Now THAT was a smack down! BTW, she was wrong; don’t drag your teammate into the fray! Direct your hatred at your coach!
Here’s a YouTube clip, for your viewing pleasure.
Apparently, Solo had issued an apology, but she didn’t do it by conventional means. Not by a press conference. Not by a one-on-one talk with her teammate. Not even a phone call. She did so via her MySpace page!
“I have felt compelled to clear the air regarding many of my postgame comments on Thursday night. I am not proud or happy the way things have come out,” reads a statement attributed to Solo on her MySpace page. “In my eyes there is no justification to put down a teammate. That is not what I was doing.”
I have to admit that this got me just slightly interested in women’s soccer! The WNBA should take note; maybe it’ll take some mudslinging between players on the same team to get me interested in their league.
(Ok, not really. And no, I still don’t care about any form of soccer.)
Next time, I will do something that I haven’t done in a while: a product review!
(YAY!)
I was wondering if you tried saying, “Excuse me.” Usually those are the magic words to get them to move. You don’t even have to wait those 10 seconds. If they still don’t budge, I’d just ram them. They deserve it.
And finally, I have to admit that I am now a huge women…
I was scared for a moment… until I read on. ;p
Ram them? And give them the opportunity to sue me and the store (they could claim the store was an accessory, since they provided the shopping cart)?
And “excuse me” usually doesn’t work, especially if the people here 1) don’t speak a lick of English, 2) are hard of hearing, 3) don’t care to listen, 4) shout “YOU CAN WAIT” off the top of their lungs.
LOL @
“I’m convinced that BBQing would make a pine cone taste good.”
now that is a man devoted to BBQ!