Huh. Both the dental hygienist and (I suppose she was one of Bobby Krippaehne’s partners, a dentist, I assume, but I never saw her before so didn’t address her as “doctor.”) asked me “how’s your summer been?”
WTH kind of question is that? Yeah, sure. “Little bit cooler this year, kinda liked that.”
No, I just showed up to work and turned the AC on in the car! Same as any other “summer”! What am I, in high-school or a retired pensioner?
Fool question! “Yeah, I started a forest fire just to watch it burn: it was awesome!” “Best summer ever: I found I had triplets, and they weren’t even mine!” “One of my nephews turned like twelve or something, so that was pretty cool!” “Just getting ready for a funeral this fall…it’s been pretty rad.” “Yeah, the surf was up off the coast of Perth so I ditched all my responsibilities and took an eighteen hour chartered plane to catch some waves…it was most excellent.”
The dentist did have captivating eyes and a soft, friendly face. And I believe the hygienist might have been of Peruvian descent. At any rate, she was an excellent hygienist: very efficient, and she did a yeoman’s job, no jibber jabber. Intelligent and effective.
I guess similar to businesses who sponsor high school plays and get put in the program. I doubt anyone’s ever contracted with Jerry’s Electric after seeing his name in the program for the Mooreside High production of Our Town.
Brain is producing vignettes in which Joe Potato has a fender bender outside and his car gets infested with bedbugs and he stumbles in all “FML COFFEE WHAT I DO?” and he gets all the answers.
Honestly, I’ll take placemats for Honest Bob’s Used Cars over Applebee’s “let’s throw a garage sale on the wall” decorating concept which has spilled over to all kinds of local places.
Things like this make me wish California would split into two states. You hear about something happening in CA, then 80% of the time it turns out to be hundreds of miles away. All the newsworthy stuff happens in SoCal.
I really don’t understand the appeal of college football. Why should I care if a school I never attended, from a state I’ve never been to, should win a game or not?
I don’t understand why anyone cares about adult strangers chasing a ball around the playground, let alone why we spend billions of dollars on it. All I can say is it makes marginally more sense than watching adult strangers drive in circles through bumper to bumper traffic for hours on end.
Just ask why there are so many Cowboys fans for the NFL, or Yankee fans for baseball. People love bandwagons. It makes them feel like a winner without any actual risk.
I’d much rather cheer on my alma mater’s teams and I’m a homer when it comes to pro sports. Those college teams feel more like my team, because I was also a student. But a random college team? No way. Unless I really like their mascot.
That’s backwards. You care if your guys can beat those guys.
In general, some folks enjoy college football more because it’s not quite as polished as pro, and you’re more likely to see goofy trick plays and such. They take a few more risks.
