Dear dimwit on the phone

Why shouldn't he?

It happened on a school trip under his watch.

 

I think he forgot the blue font. I detected sarcasm in MM's comment.

 

My bad, MM. You know how hard it is to decipher sarcasm here.

 

No it's not.





See what I did there?

 

Haha. Nice.

 

Yep, sorry about that. It was meant to be blue.

 

My baseball coach who took his team to a strip club on a spring trip a few years ago doesn't understand why all the fuss ...

 

The thing about the swim photo was good food for thought.

We ran a feature about the senior swimmers on our big high school team last fall and we did a really nice portrait. The four girls were lined up on front of the boys and I thought it was all quite tasteful.

If it had been colder in the studio ... then maybe not.

 

Classic, Rhody. When out-of-towners call me, I like to turn the parents back on the coach of their spawn.

Got a call that was just the opposite today from an old-timer I've met on the beat a time or two and knows sports well (in fact, his son once had my job and is preps writer at our largest competition). Asked why we hadn't been getting the Podunk basketball scores in, so I just leveled with him, "well, they're not that good this year and haven't been calling in when they lose."

 

Got this one today on deadline.

Lady: Are you the one who wrote the story on the (junior hockey team)?
Beef: Yes.
Lady: Well why did you hyphenate "sincerely?"
Beef: I don't know what your talking about.
Lady: You hyphenated the word "sincerely."
Beef: I don't remember doing so.
Lady: Well it looks like garbage and it's disgusting.
Beef: Ok then.
Lady hangs up.

I go look to see what she's talking about. Word was was broken up at the end of the line. The online edition is copied from a pdf in the morning and the formatting didn't transfer over as the word naturally wrapping around to the next line, so it ends up with a hyphen still in the middle of the word.

Fucking people. On deadline with a story to write and I have to deal with neurotic bitches who have nothing better to do than pick apart punctuation in a story they didn't pay to read. Didn't have time to get into a fight with her. Probably best I didn't.

Sorry needed to vent.

 

I started at this for a couple minutes and the best scenario I can come up with is that she's offended by the word sin in sin-cerely. Is that right? Is it that sad a case?

 

That is fucking hilarious.