nin137

Check your fucking fantasy football league!

on my way to school yesterday i was subjected to, what
apparently becomes an accepted practice around the holiday
times. i'm talking about the insane road rage that leads
someone to blow a red light (or insanely jump a green one)
and swerve over a cross-walk right in front of a
pedestrian's feet, who happens to be, lawfully i might add,
having waking nightmares about his upcoming landuse exam as
he crosses in what he thought was a safe environment.
now normally this travesty happens IN FRONT of me. usually
it's some douchebag that apparently can't WAIT to get to his
$7.25/job at the pizzeria. usually it's some pudgy white
guy in a beat up corolla that sounds like it is about to
fall to pieces. the good thing about these assholes that
peel out on right hand turns right in front of pedestrians
is that you can see them coming and slow your gait. the
true terror comes from the least expected vantage point.
yesterday, as i was crossing the street, i got the worst
kind of jump of the green light. the right lane usually
gets to go second (with a left hand turn signal) and then
the pedestrian light comes on at which time the other street
gets to go with anyone wanting to take a left needing to
yield to the oncoming traffice.
well i had made it to the center ofthe street when the dude
just peeled out, and, as horns were blaring at him, managed
to have his tires an inch from my toes. i looked at the
dude's face and sure enough it was a pastey white guy with
one of those wool hats that inexplicably has a beak on it
like a duck.
and that's when it hit me...people are really busy.

but really? really? i seriously can't imagine anyone is
actually busier than i am. i can safely say i spend at
least 10 hours a day workin0g in between school and actual
work. when i'm not working i'm taking care of a 5 month old
puppy. plus, the work that i do is a bitch; right now i'm
finishign up a freaking stock option grant and reviewing the
10q for our sec filing. i mean come on...i refuse to
believe that a man in a subaru, with a duck-billed hat, who
looks like he's terrified of soap, has more pressing concerns.

yet with my load i still manage to check my fantasy football
leagues. i have 2. i go to each one, each week, and i
analyze the players. i think it takes me 30 mins tops. i
never have players who are injured, on a bye, or happen to
have shot themselves in the thigh (thanks Plax just what i
needed heading into the playoffs) playing. yet, in each
league i am in a solid half of the people never checked it.
and in one of the leagues i'm 5-8 and well out of range of
the playoffs, but i still go in and check it...why? because
it's not that hard! plus, evne though it causes me a lot of
frustration, it's quite fun!

so anyways, if you are one of those morons who doesn't
update your fantasy football league, i hope you get hit by
some dude in a duck-billed hat gunning it over a red light.