Dear dimwit on the phone

This.

We'll probably start getting the same thing as well ... Pink whistles. Pink tape on football cleats. Volleyball teams wearing pink shirts. Who knows, pink caps for water polo, or pink uniforms in cross country? News side wants to make a fuss over it, fine ... I'd just as soon let things play out as usual in my little corner of the paper. It's worth a brief or a mention, not a 500-word epic.

 

Burning tires? Were they stockpiling the couches for football season?

 

Heh, there's another reason I'm glad I went to news. No one expects me to cheer or support or rally around anything that's long past cliche. The public expects me to be callous and not support good causes, you know, because I'm the "goddamn liberal media."

 

Forgot to mention, last year for their "Pink Zone" game, PCC took an older set of home uniforms and dyed them pink. Pink, maroon and black. Ugh. Another team showed up earlier in the season with custom-made Pink road uniforms. Pink, orange and black. Ugh.

 

Continuing the pink trend ...

Local football coach calls us saying a graduate from one of our local schools is painting pink ribbons on some of the area's football fields. Wants to know if we'll do a story. Uh, no.

I know how important breast cancer research is, but enough's enough.

 

Saw the worst abuse of the pink ribbon today. Wife and I were at a Halloween costume store and, yep, there was a costume there for someone who wants to dress up as a giant pink ribbon. The tagline was "Costume for a cause" but it didn't say anywhere on it that proceeds were going to support breast cancer research. Gotta love commercialism.

 

> You only cover us when we lose. <

We've gotten that one. It's so tempting to say, "Then you should pay us to stay away."

 

Dear Field Hockey Mom,
I can't tell you how you can find a copy of the Other Local Paper and their preview on your daughter's team because a) I don't work for them; and b) they didn't do one.
But I can tell you each issue we've covered the team, how you can get copies of those papers and how they will be in next week's paper as well.
Thanks for paying attention,
Rhody

 

The folks at "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" weep and know not why.

 

If you have a Halloween party, can this be my costume?

 

Continuing the "pink" theme, the major metro in our area printed most of its edition today on pink paper. I think the only thing that wasn't pink was the sports cover. There were a few A1 stories on breast cancer and lots of ads from the local hospitals.
The paper itself, however, looked like a printing error at first glance.

 

The Home Shopping Network crowd hardly seems like the riotous type willing to burn tires in someone's yard, but I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. Gotta shop, you know?