The hard part about this job is that you tend to poke fun at nearly everything so eventually someone's gonna get pissed. And I should've known I'd hit that cord with someone on the hurricane piece. Whoops! Just having a laugh, didn't mean to upset anyone like that. I think I'll put myself in the Over portion this month for that faux pas. It's obviously more serious than how I portrayed it.
Underrated
London - Duh, you'll see why in my piece next week. Until then you'll just have to take my word for it.
Hot dogs - I completely forgot how precious these guys are. They are simple to cook (read: reheat) that I can even do it when I'm drunk. And they're so tasty too. I hadn't bought hot dogs for home in forever and just decided to go ahead and pick up a pack at the beginning of the month. Wow, what a feeling. It's like if a cancer patient finally beat the odds via chemotherapy. Except in this case the cancer is hunger and the chemo is loads of sweet, sweet hot dogs. And yes, if I were one, it'd eat myself too.
Simpsons DVD/Fox - One of their best seasons, season 6, was released on DVD before I left on my trip. I didn't buy it until yesterday and it's awesome. So many great episodes are on it including "Who Shot Mr. Burns", "Bart Gets a Pool", "Stonecutters", and so many more. However the gutbusting fun is slightly ruined by the DVD packaging. It comes in a flimsy plastic Homer head. It's quite weird looking and you can't stack it up with your other seasons' cases. So what did Fox do? They heard about these complaints and have started to put little pieces of paper inside giving you a phone number to call if you don't like the packaging. They'll send you a box similar to the old ones for free! Woo hoo! Suck on that Fox. Power to the people and their boring, repetitive, anal-rententive lifestyles!
Underrated
Hurricanes - What the F. Even though I poked fun at it yesterday I knew inside that this F'ing sucks. (I just completely forgot I knew people that lived there.) People can argue left and right as to why people stuck around and are now being rescued but we don't know why they stayed. So for argument's sake let's say they had a damn good reason. Now they have to fight off cholera and typhoid because of the standing water. What the hell are cholera and typhoid?! This is amazing. These people are basically living in a third world country right now and are dealing with diseases I've never even heard of. And God forbid you are missing family members. I can't imagine the shit, figuratively and literally, these people are wading through. It's times like these King Kong and his giant hair dryer existed. Because this is FUBARed. CPunch sends out his thoughts, prayers, and jetskis. I don't have a jetski? Ok, just the thoughts and prayers then.
Exchange rates - 1.7 US dollars equals 1 British pound. That is so weak. So you can imagine the butthumping I received when purchasing things over there. Crafty Euros and their crazy money. So now I need to wait to make sure all my purchases and withdrawals go through properly before making any real purchases over here...like my rent. All I freakin' need is a bunch of overdraft fees. I'll tell you what though, the accents on the girls over there are worth it alone. I'll explain more next week...
Superior Coworkers - I had a confrontation with a highlight supervisor at work. I was to do the final round of the NEC Invitational golf tournament, which Tiger Woods ended up winning, for ESPNEWS. There's a different PA assigned to do the event for Sportscenter so I talked it over with him and his hisupe. I had my plan which was going to be very similar to his. My hisupe gives me this attitude like I don't know what I'm talking about and how I need to "check myself" when I respond with "I've already worked on two other rounds and watched today's event. I know what should be in this highlight." He took that as insubordination despite the fact he hadn't really been watching the event. Needless to say this guy is a moron and doesn't know what he's doing. So I told my boss and he probably got a talking to. I also learned today at lunch that my friend and coworker got into a similar argument with him only a few days before my incident. If this guy isn't fired soon some shit will go down. I actually had to do a report on him for my boss and said in it:
I'm going to quote Seinfeld when he worked for a business and all he did was eat crackers all day by saying what his boss told him, "it's almost as if you have no business training whatsoever."
Yup I said that in my report. What did my boss have to say in response? "Good report. I appreciate the honest feedback." F'in' A.
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