I suppose I need a little chaos. That would make being a hypocrite a little easier. My dreams seemed to be themed around a need to just go nuts. Some play into my desire to be involved with the wrestling business. If I just abandoned any sense of normalcy or security, the world could be mine regardless of being 40 and having little cardio.
A coworker at the day job said he was going over a list of "straight edge" celebrities. I cannot say anything bad about them, especially the athletes, provided they do not make that their identity (i.e. I am better than you). Before I actually started living like an adult, my alcohol consumption was rare. But, I appreciated the freedom to have a drink, so there was a fifth of vodka in my closet incase I felt the urge to indulge. At least in my early 20's, that was something I did not need in my life, but I would rather have it than wish for it. Hence, my feeling that I am walking hypocrisy.
Is it weakness or just boredom? With my retail job seemingly scared to schedule me after the 19 day stretch (I should check the deal of the day to see if they can trap me for a few hours tonight like they did last week), the holiday season has kind of felt like a winter break. There is no way that I should have the freedom to watch both nights of Wrestle Kingdom live or get to go to a Saturday poker night.
The winter break metaphor (All similes are metaphors.) is probably derived from working with mostly 20 somethings for my primary income. My retail job has me as one of the older non-pensioners there, but we are all the same age due to nerd culture. I may not be a hypocrite, but when dealing with a crew of non-Star Wars fanatics, I think my true mental maturity is coming out since I am not treated like the old man there.
The only thing that leaves me feeling old is the "Harry Potter" fandom they seem to all share. Is it because "Star Wars" was all about 20 somethings saving the world instead of kids. Since they were kids when they read them (except for my manager, two years my junior), J.K. Rowling's cliché and contrived tales were more relatable? Probably. I did dig "The Chronicles of Narnia" more than "The Holy Bible". And I dig the "Fantastic Beast" stories more because the lack of minors.
Why talk about kids stuff? Because that was part of our trip to see the Chicago Blackhawks play the Columbus Blue Jackets. My better quarter (Eve the Cat gets half.) took note of some that I do not know if they were there or not (She would not go into detail, but I may have exposed too much.) but security was overly concerned about the ones who were, but not really in abundance, on the away fans corner of the crowd.
I heard the cussing and wee drunkenness as early as the first period, but I assumed it had to be the home crowd. It is usually day drinkers at Wrigley, not the away fans from Milwaukee (Who have a reputation to uphold. Now Bostonians on the other hand [the Irish].). Once the play got exciting in the third period, there was no question who were spouting the obesities. But it was the fuck'n third!
After the drama of the final seconds in overtime and the premature release of hometown victory streamers did security look to be tough. I do not drink heavily at spontaneous sporting events, but I wanted to call out the security guy by name after a few guys in racist sweaters (My stuff only has the tomahawks logo.) may have hopped around 360 degrees in front of their seats with middle fingers raised at the heartbroken crowd. These hometown crew (literal, not the fans) were taking it a little too personally. Do not hide behind the children.
Youngsters may deserve a little harshness. We needed to feed my nephew, but Long John Silver's was closed when we determined that. If Ohio wants to be in the Midwest, just adapt the Central Time Zone. It is bad enough to not let us by Yuengling on a Sunday or sell it in our time zone.
So it was McDonald's again since he will not eat fast food anywhere else, the little pescatarian. This also demonstrated how much of a child I truly am since I only eat the nuggets. I have found mayo too many times to trust them to deliver me a plain chicken sandwich.
Give it 40 years and parents will once again struggle with frustration with McDonald's menus. I was fortunate to not be placed in the hands of other parents at age three, so there were not many, "You will eat the burger and like it," situations. Now with vegetarian/vegan children, like my nephew, they will not respond to the nugget that saved my childhood. Conservative parents will be dealing with the pouts of those who want to save the planet from the curse that is meat.
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