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October 29, 2005 / Saturday
Desert Tribe: I'M PISSED OFF!
Desert Tribe played the black team today. Hooray, black team. I like the black team. I was, however, not so happy with a couple of their subs, who definitely do not play in the friendly spirit of Saturday Night Hockey.
In particular, I was not happy with the one twice my size who, at the end of a race to the puck, asked, in a very trash talky manner, "Whaddaya gonna do, huh?"
I took the puck back down to the other end of the ice, scored, and yelled back, "THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO!" You dumbfuck.
Okay, he could have said much worse. With me, however, any kind of trash talk sets off a very short fuse to a very large cache of very dry gunpowder. If he had instead asked, "Whaddaya wanna do?" the reply would have been, "I want to bash your head in with my stick, watch you lie on the ice bleeding from your skull, put the butt end of my stick on your windpipe, and slowly lean in." I actually visualized it, and the part with the windpipe was especially satisfying.
I scare myself when I get that pissed off. I'm not normally violent. I don't fight with people, physically or verbally. I haven't yelled except to cheer in years. I objectively know that most things aren't worth getting angry over.
But here I am, angry. Really angry. Wishing that I'd responded to his "question" by taking out his knees angry.
I guess that's better than wanting to bash his head in.
Fortunately, I know better.
*deep breath*
Final score: 1-2. Nothing to be pissed off about there. Their 2 goals were well deserved. Good job, Peter and Joe.
October 29, 2005 11:29 PM | Desert Tribe
Comments
Hey, you did better than bash his head in, you scored which probably pissed him off more. Go Viv!
Posted by: Snarfdog at October 30, 2005 02:18 AM
Bummer about the taunting... that sucks. We only had 3 subs on black... hopefully I didn't do anything to piss you off ;)
Posted by: Chris at October 30, 2005 09:00 PM
Yeah, Chris, stop being so unsmiley and mean! ;P
Posted by: Viv at October 30, 2005 09:03 PM
Two words: thick skin.
That said, I still remember the number of the guys who have talked major shit to me at Logitech....
Posted by: Liz at October 31, 2005 10:58 AM
Thick skin, that I don't have. It's one of the many reasons I don't play at Logitech, and I really don't care to see it at IO.
Posted by: Viv at October 31, 2005 11:04 AM
The smallest sparks light the short fuses, at least that's my experience. At least you scored while avoiding mayhem.
Posted by: Mike at October 31, 2005 12:46 PM
I hope you grinned like a maniac all the way down the ice. Best response is always a grin, they never have any idea what it means and you always will.
Posted by: Shadow at October 31, 2005 01:02 PM
True, things that make me ridiculously angry are usually ridiculously insignificant.
I will try to remember to grin from now on ... if I get really good at it the "I want to bash your head in" grin will be indistinguishable from the "hello, friend" grin, which is the one I usually sport on the ice anyway. :)
Posted by: Viv at October 31, 2005 01:09 PM