Sep

24

Oh, EWWWWW.

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“Oh, ewwww,” was something that kind of jumped out of my mouth the other day while reading out small-town newspaper.

Mom asked me what was wrong, and I pointed out the sports section, where they referred to my old high school’s football team using initials.

Now, I don’t want to give out TOO much information about myself because I know I would wake up and find a bunch of loyal blog readers at my doorstep, wanting to hang out with the exciting and interesting girl they read about on the internet (that would be ME, in case I’ve lost you).

So instead of letting you know exactly where I live, let’s just call my town “Awesometown.” Awesometown is, as you might imagine, pretty sweet. It is small, but the school is good. Awesometown just got its second stop light a couple years ago (which TOTALLY cramps my style, but that is another story for another time).

In true small town style, Awesometown has had a rivalry for years with a neighboring small town’s school. It is a lot like Awesometown, except smaller and completely lame. That school actually served as the school for two small towns, Lamesville and Barfington. Even with that combined power, the Lamesville-Barfington school never had a football team because they were too small.

As a small aside, my senior year of high school was one where we played the Lamesville-Barfington basketball team during their homecoming game (a basketball homecoming… sad… sad). And so of course we beat them terribly and then their cheerleaders did a pyramid-type thing and they all fell down and we laughed hysterically and it is STILL one of my favorite high school memories.

Anyway, right after I graduated from high school, some wise guy decided it would be a great idea to invite the Lamesville-Barfington school to play football with our school. And so we now play football with our former RIVALS, and kids today probably don’t even remember those glorious days.

But I do. So imagine my disgust when I opened the paper and saw a headline referring to the L-B-A team. As in, Lamesville-Barfington-Awesometown. THEY DID NOT EVEN PUT OUR NAME FIRST. Ugh, gross, excuse me while I dry heave.

Isn’t it weird how we hold on to these things? In the grand scheme of things, that little rivalry of the past means zilch.

I mean, I’m sure all the residents of Lamesville-Barfington are lovely people.

But I wouldn’t go over there without a recent tetanus shot. I’m just saying…

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One Response to “Oh, EWWWWW.”

  1. Nin on September 24th, 2009 5:14PM

    thankyou for making my day, hehehe!

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