Comments on: 6 years smoke-free, and weekly miscellany

By: trashee

trashee — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:10 +0000

@XUP
Re: earbuds – I take one out and leave one in when I pay for something. I figger I’m showing that I care. No?
Re: Jack – Harper prorogued Jack’s testosterone production.

By: XUP

XUP — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:30:33 +0000

Yes, congratulations on being 6 years tobacco-free. As for the earbud thing, I might want to do a whole post on them one day. I find them really annoying in pretty much every situation. Everyone at work is plugged in and when you want to talk to them you have to go tap them on the shoulder and then they jump and get pissed off with you for scaring them. People walking on sidewalks give you dirty looks when you pass them because they didn’t hear you coming and that’s somehow your fault. The other day I had to ask someone something at an outdoor event and by the time they got their hat off and their music turned down and their buds out I didn’t even feel like talking to them anymore. PS: When did Jack Layton grow boobs?

By: trashee

trashee — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:32:22 +0000

I did look for someone to elbow in the head but only my wife and two little ones were close by and that just didn’t right.
There was the guy on the rink, but he had a stick and likely would whacked me upside the head and given me a second concussion!

By: dave1949

dave1949 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:26:22 +0000

First congrats on quitting the smoking, IT pays off over and over again and with any luck will keep doing so for decades.
Now as for the wussiness. It isn’t about protective equipment it’s about giving in to the pain, disorientation etc once the injury is inflicted. Your correct actions would have been to jump up and immediately cross check the nearest body. Possibly inconvenient since it wasn’t actually a hockey game but we should all try to ingrain these habits so they emerge when we aren’t thinking at our best.
As for helmets I recall many years ago “Saint Don Cherry” was ranting on as usual about not forcing the players to wear helmets or visors and some doctor came on and to paraphrase.
Cherry never played with out a cup to protect his family jewels but thinks a helmet is sissy. Shows what he considers most important.
Besides putting on the helmet might save your kids teeth incase their the closest body when you come to next time.