TC the Terrible

At this point I really don’t care about respect for the Tigers. If you don’t respect a team with 25 straight wins, you have no brains in your head.
They played a hell of a game last night and beat a quality team. What else would you call a game with 16 lead changes and no team ever getting up by more than five points? The Tigers looked fresher at the end than the Aggies did. Plus they’ve been knocking the bottom out of the net on free throws. They pass well and make good shot choices. The half time adjustments by Calipari were just enough to hold off A&M. The best story on the game can be found here.
I was shocked as hell that the refs took over a full second off the clock at the end just like everyone else was. But I also saw a couple of shots of the refs using a stopwatch to time the replay so I’ve got to think they got the call right.

The main thing about the game is the Tigers won. That makes THE WOMAN happy, which makes my life much better.

Here’s hoping that OSU has no gas left in the tank after last night. After all, THE WOMAN has the Tigers going all the way on her bracket sheet. And I’ll have hell to pay if she loses her five dollars.

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UPDATE — I had a few minutes to kill this morning between meetings so I called the number on the back of my ticket again. This time somebody screwed up and answered the phone. Naturally it was a non-English speaker so I had to act like a jackass to get to the supervisor. I had a pleasant conversation with a respectable young man that told me he would look into my problem and call back.

Which he did.  I just got off the phone with the meter maid-man supervisor and he did the right thing by sticking up for his employee.  Not every boss will do that when faced with a complaint, so good for him.  Nice to see some leadership from a public employee.  Of course that didn’t fix my problem so he went ahead and changed my ticket to a warning.  It was the right thing to do after all.

I save $25 and get to feel vindicated.  His meter maid-man respects his boss for sticking up for him. So everything worked out for the best.

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I had to trek over to Crystal City for a meeting yesterday and parked out on the street. Normally that’s no big deal. I walked out of my meeting to see the Arlington County parking cop standing about two cars away from mine. Still, not a big deal. Until I got to my ride and saw the green envelope under my windshield wiper. The dick wad had left me a ticket.

It’s hard to see in the picture but he had written the ticket literally three minutes before I got to the car. And the real crock of shit in the whole deal is I still had six minutes left on the meter when I got the ticket. I tried to catch up to the dick wad and explain that to him, but he just smiled as he got in his truck and drove away.

I get the feeling that he really didn’t give a crap about being right or wrong. He just wanted to meet his quota and move on down the road. Naturally there’s no one that you can call and talk to about something like this, only a voice mail system that will never be checked. My internal debate is weather or not to take a day off work and fight it in court, or just pay the damned fine and hope karma kicks the meter maid-man’s ass some where down the line.