Say Something

Hello there, loyal readers. I am sorry for my brief absence. I hope you've survived without me. There hasn't been a whole lot going on, but I'll fill you in on a hillarious phone call I had the other night.

I'm driving home from work and the phone rings. It's not a number that's in my phone, so ordinarily I wouldn't answer. But nothing good is on the radio, so I answer, hoping its a supermodel. Instead:

Unknown caller: "Mom and I are thinking about grabbing a bite to eat."
Me: (Pause) "What?"
Unknown caller: "Where should we go eat?"

Now this is normally where I would hang up, but I was in one of those moods...

Me: "Well where are you?" (Trying to get information)
Unknown caller: "On the corner of 1st and X."
Me: "How's pizza sound?"
Unknown caller: "Mom doesn't want pizza."
Me: "That's just like her."
Unknown caller: "What?"
Me: "Nevermind, what about a sub?"
Unknown caller: "She doesn't want a sub."
Me: "Well hey, you're the one who called me!"
Unknown caller: "What's wrong with you? You in a bad mood or something?"
Me: "No, not really, how about that pita place?"
Unknown caller: "Yeah, that will work. How late are they open?"
Me: "Ever heard of a phone book?"
Unknown caller: "Geez...sorry."
Me: "Gotta go, tell Mom I say hello."

Strange people out there. But then again, I'm the one driving around talking to them on the phone so they can figure out what to eat.

The Unexpected: Expect it

I love sports. I really love football. Occasionally for unexpected reasons.

When I explain to people why I love football, I tend to talk about how it is a microcosm of life. It shows us that seemingly impossible things do happen.

But there's another part of sports that I don't talk about as often. The fact that occasionally you get to see something take place that has never happened before. Remember when the Yankees blew the 3-0 series lead to the Red Sox last year? That had never happened in the MLB before. Today I believe I saw something that has never happened in the history of the world.

Kansas State was playing Oklahoma. KSU has the ball. It's 4th down and they have to punt from their own 10 yard line. They line up, the center snaps the ball, a nice spiral snap...except one problem...NO PUNTER. That's right...there wasn't a punter in the game. The ball went out of the back of the end zone for a safety...a very strange safety. In fact, I suspect that in the history of the world and the sport of football, there has never been a play like that before. There probably never will be again.

At least we can hope.