The Hungry Hungry Writer

It’s getting me sick.

EVERY SINGLE TIME I MAKE A POINT… my coworker and his big ego takes an opposite position.

If you’re a basketball fan, well, if you’re not even a basketball fan this statement will make sense.

The Mavericks beat the Golden State Nuggets last night to narrow the gap. The 7 game series is now 2 games for the Mavs and 3 games for the Nuggets. Golden State had a 3-1 lead and I made a statement, “It’s tough for a team to win 3 games in a row in the playoffs.”

And good old co-worker with the ego said, “No it’s not.”

What the fuck?

I held back my argument and just said, “So… a team can win 3 in a row just like that. No problem.”

And he says, “In the Maverick’s case the can.”

I was like, “Well, they lost three games already to the Nuggets and they lost the season series to them so you’re saying, they can just go in and sweep a team 3 games in a row with no problem.”

He was like, “Yup.”

Idiot.

I’m getting so tired of it I don’t even want to hang out with him.

And yesterday he really got on my nerves!

He was on the phone with, as he said, SEARS (and as he pronounced it: sea-airs)

I was like, “WHO?!”

He looked at me like I was stupid and said, “You don’t know who SEAAIRS is? The big appliance store? They sell tools and stuff.” Then he spelled it, “S – E – A – R – S.”

I was like, “SEARS?” (Pronounced like it should be: sîrz or seerz according to Dictionary.com)

He shook his head like I was a stupid idiot, “No, SEA-AIRS, S-E-A-R-S not S-E-E-R-S, it’s S-E-A-R-S. You don’t say ‘ear’ (e-air), “E-E-E-R”, you say E-AIR. E-A-R.”

I shook my head with a feigned smile and said, “NO it’s a silent ‘a’. As in, hear and near… Eeer!!!

(ear: ‘eer’ pronunciation from Dictionary.com).

“I don’t know what English you speak,” he continued, “But it’s wrong.”

I pretended to laugh and said, “Yeah, I guess it’s my oriental accent.” And left the room.

I ditched him at lunch and bought a Jamba Juice and putted for 45 minutes at the local driving range.

Wow, this guy, who is a fine coworker otherwise, and I would never be buds outside the office. We think way differently despite similar interests. From saying running a marathon is all mental (referring that anybody can do it without proper training like I’m trying to do), to telling me he ran a mile in 6 minutes (when the route he took was only .7 miles long according to MapQuest), to saying all you guys (Asians) look all alike, to telling me Kobe should be the MVP of the league, the guy is so blinded by his own ignorance I have to let him live in his own clouded world.

Oh, one more thing… he complains about the Government and our Presidency all the time. Thing is, he has never voted and is a sworn in American citizen. My philosophy, don’t complain if you don’t vote. Isn’t it the ignorant that say, “My vote doesn’t matter?” Tell those to the peeps in Florida.

Unbelievable.