Fear grips me that my Blog may just turn into a giant whine fest where I a puke out all my guile on a daily basis.

It is with such great reservation that I share the following.

On my way home tonight I stopped off to see some friends that live in Glenwood. I saw David and we talked for a few minutes, made some plans and I left. Anyone who has been in this situation can imagine my dismay when I found a boot on my car. I don’t know that I recall having so much deep anger, ever.

I thought about sawing the boot off my car but alas, I didn’t have a hacksaw. I gave in and called the number they had left. Thank you BYU Parking enforcement! I really wanted to be polite, I know booters have a crappy job and they probably have to deal with a lot of jerks. I was really trying to prepare myself to be polite and laugh at the whole thing.

Then the booter rolled up, ooh I wish I was making this up, in a brand spanking new Escalade.

Now, I’m not a violent person. I’ve punch a wall or two in my day. I’ve thrown my skateboard on more than one occasion but its not a personal violence. I’ve never wanted to take my skateboard and smash someone’s school in until this joker drove up. I still wanted to be nice, at least part of me did, but I couldn’t stop my self from asking “Do you ever feel like an asshole driving up in that car to take people’s money?” To his credit, the booter remained calm and polite and said that yes he did, sometimes. I had to ask him a few questions, I mean, I did just pay him 50 bucks to come see me. I had him explain the rules to me and I tried to find out where these rules might be posted. So, just for everyones information, it is after midnight that your car will be booted unless its the weekend. There is an exception, if the day of the weekend starts with an “S” you will still be booted after 12.

Thank you BYU for rejecting my application and taking my money anyway! You’re AWESOME!

Today was not so awesome. For one thing my tires blew out and I have to spend lots of $$ to replace them. That’s not awesome.

In other not so awesome news the new game (youtube) Bully from Take Two is causing a lot of controversy. I don’t really know why, based on the game’s trailer(youtube) it doesn’t really look all that crazy. Actually, it looks fun. The funny thing is that despite the controversy(youtube) this game can’t be that bad. It is rated T for teen. It’s not even M(Mature) like Grand Theft Auto. These mom’s featured in the previously mentioned controversy are all crazy. They complain because this game encourages their children to hit, obviously games like Halo are right out then because you blow peoples brains out.

The fact is that it is okay to hit sometimes. When I was a kid in elementary school this guy from the Navy came and spoke and he told us that we should be like the navy, never start anything(the debate on whether or not this is accurate doesn’t belong here) but to be ready to finish it. As in, if we were attacked it was okay to fight back. As I learned a few years later, in the school system, it isn’t okay to fight back or defend your self. When five kids threw me on the ground and kicked me in the snow it wasn’t okay for me to stand up and kick one of them back. I got in trouble for that and the other kids didn’t have so much as a warning. Why? Who knows, the point is that Bully is dealing out a lesson about this.

The point of Bully as it says in the, a fore linked news cast, is to empower people to stand up to bullies and not accept injustice. Good for them, kids should learn that. If this game can get kids to stand up for them selves on a daily basis rather than building up anger until they shoot everyone then good. I say its awesome.