A Couple Things...(Rant)

first off, what is with the "this is your speed" trailer hitch thingies that the police leave on the side of the road? as far as i know, it doesn't take a picture of your license plate and then you get a ticket in the mail. if they DO do that, then i should have received a few in my day.

there is one of these retarded machines at the beginning of front street. my issue is this. can they be anymore condescending? i know how fast i am going. i don't need some machine to tell me. the only reason i slow down is because now everyone around me knows that i am going 34 in a 25, but when that thing moves, i am right back up to 34. i don't really see the point unless they assume that people can't read their speedometer. it is a step above a regular speed sign but much less than when you see a cop sitting around the corner.

item number 2. i like that the sounders have a huge following of people that know soccer and people that don't. however, if you don't know the game you do not get to yell retarded comments to the official or other team. example, girl next to Kovac at last nights game felt the need to yell at everything. an instance that turned sounders fan (me) on sounders fan (her) occurred when the referee blew his whistle to give an offsides call. i understand that offsides is somewhat difficult to understand. from where we stand it always looks like the player is onside. i am cool with people complaining about the call. that being said, this girl and her "boyfriend' yell "how can you make a call when nothing happened? are you stupid? you are in the middle of the field how can you see anything?" this, i could not let pass. i leaned around Kovac and said exactly this "are you kidding? he didn't make the call, that guy did. the referee on the sideline wearing bright orange with the flag in his hand. they call offsides." this chick was pissing us off all night so she had it coming.

another thing is, if you are going to yell things, wait until something happens to yell about and then make you statement pertinent to the situation at hand. the aforementioned girl liked to yell at random moments during the game, "you guys suck! DC isn't even a state!" granted the first time, it was a little funny, but seriously? what do you want the response to be? "you know what, you are right. it is a district. it is basically it's own country minus it's own currency." i kept thinking to myself, if you went up to 95% of the population in america and said, "where is washington?" and pointed to a map, they would point to DC. one last thing, Kovac and i sit amongst a lot of people that just like to yell random shit that can equate to listening to a song on the radio that has been edited for language. i would say something like "nice tackle you douche!" (although i don't usually say anything, but this is for instance) and the bald annoying guy with his annoying girl friend behind us would say something like, "you should learn to slide tackle from someone in major league baseball that slides into second base when they are stealing. are you a good slide tackler? NO!" good one, short and effective. what a douche.