5 things
I took this from C, who I always thought of as a real blogger because she’s kinda famous and lives in NYC.
Five Things My Friends Like That I Really Couldn’t Care Less About:
1. Sports - I just never got the idea of talking endlessly about stats and who’s so much better than who and who won the 1978 World Series and who played 3rd base for the Padres in 1989 and what the heck is the infield fly rule about anyway?
2. Reality TV - I don’t have a TV and I have never seen Lost or Marooned or Survivor or whatever its called. I just don’t get the fascination with it. I mean, can’t they just ask the camera guy for something to eat?
3. Drinking for entertainment - I have drank (drunken? dranken?) alcohol, but if I never drank it again for the rest of my life, I’d probably be OK because it really doesn’t taste that good, just different.
4. POSE running…………………………….juuust kidding, Mark and Aaron. :D
4. Hunting - This is a big thing in Michigan and with my in-laws. Nothing against it really. I like firearms as much as most folks…who…like…guns, but hunting never really appealed to me. Fishing is ok (isn’t that like hunting fish but without the guns?), but it seemed kinda stupid after I started diving, especially since it was hard to even get away from the fish while underwater.
5. A clean car - Not that I want my truck filled with raw sewage and covered in rotten fruit peelings, but I never really got the idea of washing my car once a week and getting it detailed twice a year. If it gets so bad I can’t get in it without ruining my clothes, ok, but I guess I never understood why it was bad to have dirt on my truck. I mean, I drive it around outside, how is it supposed to look?
April 26th, 2005 19:11
Can you please tell my mom point #5 directly? Gratitude forever.
April 26th, 2005 19:17
I agree with #1, 3 & 4 - but #2 - no Reality TV! OMG! I couldn’t survive without it :grin:
April 26th, 2005 20:46
I have a tendency to zone out whenver someone starts talking about sports and specific athletes and their stats. I’d rather play than sit on the couch and watch.
Oh, and reality TV is EVIL (but I still watch some of it anyway).
April 26th, 2005 21:29
I love lists, Jon … you made my day! :) I “get” Survivor, but I do not “get” hunting or clean cars, either.
April 26th, 2005 22:20
good golly, no TV,, geezz :) and I so WISH i could have a clean car,, take away the grain,, bits of hay,, the odd calf yuckys,, yippeee,, and today it has raspberry stickers and leaves in it,, and an oil stain,,, OH I WOULD love a CLEAN car,,, just dont make me do it..
April 26th, 2005 22:37
Hey Jon. Love the list. I own a TV, but the last thing I watched was the election. My friends think I’m crazy. Congrats on the PR. I’ve been in a BAD running rut for weeks, and reading the enthousiasm surrounding another person’s PR is awesome. Thanks for getting me excited again.
April 26th, 2005 23:22
hehehe loved this entry. I don’t care for a clean car either. I think hunting might be illegal here.
RYN: thanks so much, my little baby is okay now, running around wondering why I still look stressed and need a good nights sleep!
April 26th, 2005 23:23
OMG PMP laughing. What a great post. Now, I caved in my first year graduate studies and finally got me a TV…downhill ever since. LOL However Reality TV is definitely on the ‘not on your life are you watching that’ list. ;) Love the not-so-clean truck thing…wish I’d have had that to try on my troop commander: but sir, we drive the tank around outside, honestly what do they teach you in officer kindergarden..uh I mean school?! :)
April 26th, 2005 23:36
My man Jon! Great list! The Yankees won the ‘78 World Series, a total of 8 players played 3rd base for the Padres in 1989 (Luis Salazar primarily). The infield fly rule is a rule used to prevent a team from letting a pop-up drop in order to get two outs instead of the one that catching the ball would accomplish. It is called when a pop-up is hit on the infield (judgment call by the umpire) and there are less than 2 outs and runners on first and second base, or the bases are loaded. The reason is that a player could let the ball drop and because all of the baserunners return to the bases assuming the ball will be caught, the fielder could presumably throw to two bases for a double play as if it were a ground ball. Once the rule has been called by the umpire (done by pointing to the sky) the batter is out, and the runners can advance at their own risk after tagging up like they would on a normal fly ball.
April 26th, 2005 23:37
I know - I’m a pain in the A$$! I actually didn’t know any of that stuff - had to look it up!
April 27th, 2005 01:12
Hmmm, I think we’re brothers or something, I can relate to all five - unfortunately my wife insists that our car stays clean - really hard in the summer when I’m hauling things back and forth from the garden!
April 27th, 2005 08:54
sports doesn’t include track and field or cycling, does it? since those are REAL sports. right? i mean, we can talk about paula, meb and haile or speculate about lance in the next tour de france, right? please say yes, jon. please!
April 27th, 2005 09:17
ouch!
April 27th, 2005 09:55
yup I’m stealin it.
April 27th, 2005 10:25
Good lists. It’s synchronicity or some other _icity. I agree about the clean car, esp. if it’s a 4×4 truck, it’s supposed to have mud and dents. My hub is complete opposite and washes/vacuums weekly. I wash my truck once per season.
April 27th, 2005 11:19
FAMOUS?! Buwahaha! Certainly not, but thanks. :D (And thank you or loving me even though I don’t love chocolate. We can still be friends.)
April 27th, 2005 11:51
POSE running. Hahahahah. That’s a good one. :)
April 27th, 2005 13:10
I’m gonna have to do this on my site too.. great idea C! And Jon!
April 27th, 2005 21:43
tehehehheeeee…sorry Jon, can’t agree with #5. Hubby keeps his absolutely like he just drove it off the lot and I like it. I had a friend whose car was so bad I had no place to put my feet when I got in. Now he does go a tad to far when he makes me towel off the dog before he gets in or he glares at me if I put my feet on the dash…lol.
April 28th, 2005 18:40
I think it’s great that you don’t have a TV. We have one - it’s a 21-year-old set with antiquated knobs - and we watch it maybe once a week. Otherwise, it gathers dust in the loft.
April 29th, 2005 07:07
I’m with ya on every single one of those except #4… I love to get my drink on… but I try not to do it so much because I know it isn’t good for me…
April 29th, 2005 07:08
oops. I meant I agreed with all of them except #3. I certainly have no desire to bag Bambi’s mother…
May 4th, 2005 14:30
Sports - Great if you’ve got the time to really follow them, and have an inspiring team. Plus, you’re only using 10% of your brain. Trivia is what fills the rest
Reality TV - Amen.
Drinking for entertainment - Uh, aherm, next question…. (though I think I’ve finally outgrown it)
Hunting - IMO, there’s two distinct categories here. I like hunting because I end up with tasty critters to eat during the appropriate seasons. Mmmmm, quail. Mmmmm, phesant. Mmmmmm, duck. Mmmmmm, Bambi’s mom. All go well with various combinations of veggies, etc, there’s no worries about hormones or antibiotics, and I’m completely confidient that the meat of which I’m about to partake lived a happy and free-range life, and died a quick and humane death. The second category - Hey, let’s put that one up on the wall - yeah, I don’t get that either.
Clean Car - You can clean a car? Although I am getting more conciensious of cups rolling around the floor.