But first,
Yesterday I dealt with interviews with Sports Stars and today I heard another one that nicely fits the bill.
A Sportscaster was interviewing the San Francisco Baseball Manager after his team's 9 to 0 trouncing of the Texas Rangers in this year's World Series. Here's how it went:
Sportscaster - well you beat them 9 to zip - do you have any comments?
Manager - well we are not going to give any of the runs away.
That was it - nothing more. Again, how profound and did he really think he could give away some of their runs?
I can just hear it now -
Manager to Umpire:
"Hey Ump , we won by 9 runs - so in the spirit of fairness we would like to give some of those runs away".
Ump - "to whom exactly?"
Manager - "to the other team I guess - let's say 6"
Ump - "but then the Rangers win 6 to 3".
Manager - "Good point - okay give them 4 and we'll have won 5 to 4"
Bizarre. And it certainly questions the common belief that the game is 90% mental.
Now on to My Own Parking Spot:
It started quite some time ago when Parking Lots began designating certain spots for the handicapped. Not many at first but soon the numbers grew as did the size of each reserved spot. Now each spot seems big enough to accommodate a Mack Truck.
Then in more recent times spots were reserved for pregnant women. Later women with children and then parents with children were added.
And more recently, spots are now being reserved for cars - specific types of cars that is - Hybrid and the like.
You now enter a parking lot - say Loblaws and encounter a vast waste land of empty spaces - all dedicated to someone or another or something or another that has failed to show up. But none of those spots can be used by those who class themselves healthy, with no children or expected children, while driving a gas guzzling relic of the past.
This latter group can be found parked in the parking lot's outer extremes -and easily identified by the area of lot containing all of the cars.
I fully expect that this trend will continue to grow and I am simply delighted with the prospect.
My theory is that there will come a day when all but one spot will be reserved and to save signage the Parking Lot Managers will at that point simply designate that one spot "For All The Rest".
And by that time, I will be the only one left to qualify for it.
Everyone else, the disabled, the pregnant, the parents with children, the Hybrids etc will be in a free fight for
the remainder. Like it used to be.
As I see it...
'Galagher'
