Dear dimwit on the phone

Dear writer from other paper,

Stop asking who scored each and every basket during the game tonight. I got my own Twitter/statbook/running score to deal with. Why don't you do your fucking job!!!

BN

 

Upon getting that call, our editor (and a former assistant editor, and the previous sports editor) would've walked over to the desk and asked why that game wasn't in the TV listing.

 

Know a guy exactly like this.

And it's always annoying when he does it, because he's been watching the game and taking notes just like I have.

 

I also have known guys like that although often the reason they have to ask is because they're too busy BSing with the PA announcer or the moms sitting behind the scorer's table to pay attention to the game.

 

One ask per quarter is free. After that, I get a cut of your salary.

 

Had a guy comment on our Facebook page about a story we ran on the Gus Macker tourney coming to town this summer at the local high school. He was upset that the tourney would scuff the newly-remodeled gym floor.

 

I've encountered his/her opposite, especially at tourney time.

Drove a couple of hundred miles to cover Podunk at a doubleheader. Second game, I don't give a rats ass about, so I keep plugging away at my web story, oblivious to what's going on down on the court, except for the gut who keeps elbowing me, asking "did you see that?" Uh, no I didn't ... can't you see I'm writing here?????

 

I've forgotten what time of the year it was. Guy sends an e-mail claiming he knows someone related to a college football player who said for sure that he's leaving for the NFL draft/staying another year, and that we can take what he's telling us to the bank. We ignore it as usual and sure enough, the next day the football player does the exact opposite.

 

But you could have been FIRST!!! with the news the day before. That's what's important!

 

I don't remember. He might've stopped saying Obama after his initial statement. I wonder if he tries to call every website he comes across that only says Obama in the headline to voice his complaint.

That he trailed off mid-sentence and hung up was even funnier than the whole Obama part.

Actually, that's how he ended his e-mail. He wanted us to be first with the news. And despite being 100% wrong, it wasn't a prank e-mail either. He left a legitimate name, phone number and e-mail address.

 

I wish I believed my delusions as much as that guy did.

 

We had a letter writer today burn his one letter for the month by insisting in 200 words that Jesus was a white man.