Doing non-journalism piddling while working

I'm the ultimate slacker: I'm female, which means it takes me twice as long in the restroom, even if I don't stop to apply lip gloss.

 

you slacker "chicks" give all of us bad names. (/sarcasm font)

real sports journalists -- rb and shot -- urinate in their seats while covering games so they won't miss a single play.

 

Isn't that why catheters were invented?

 

Dammit, put the lip gloss on before the game! And pee before the game, too, I guess.

 

The cat urinated on the seat this afternoon. Punishment to follow.

 

The kind that Glen Hubbard got?

 

well, then they couldn't pin themselves upon the cross, which, obviously, is their goal.

 

I was thinking more about the deprivation of food. I'm sure that was lovely for Private Bell.

 

I was the lone guy on the sports desk for a suburban p.m. that morning. I had tried to stay up to watch the game but knowing I had to get up early to put the section together, I gave up and went to sleep when the second rain delay began. When I got to the office a little before 6 a.m., the writer we had covering the game was already in the office, writing furiously. I figured he had gone to bed after the game and got up early to write, but he said he had come straight from the game. He said it went 19 innings and Rick Camp had hit a home run. That's when I knew he was kidding -- Camp was a notoriously bad hitter. I didn't believe him until I saw the story on the wire.

 

Just pray RB never eats the pre-game taco spread.

 

Yes, there are neighborhoods around the stadium. In 1986, they all looked suspiciously like shanty towns, but got a massive facelift leading up to the Olympics. And I'm pretty sure that game ended after 4. MLB has subsenquently imposed a curfew for such situations.

Funny that this particular game comes up on this particular thread. Is it OK to piddle during a rain delay?

 

>>>My boss has some pretty good writers in his employ. And without fail, if he walks up behind them and sees them on AOL Instant Messenger or playing online games during work hours, he'll point out that they would have a lot more time to do that at (5,000 daily a few miles down the road).<<<

yes, because everyone knows that reporters at 5,000-circulation dailies have so little work to do and so much free time.