A Shameful Confession

Often i wonder what is wrong with me.  The Apostle Paul said something to the tune of, "I want to do right, but I go ahead and do wrong any way".  Well, dang it, I messed up today.  It all started at Dave And Busters a couple of years ago.  I will take you there now....

Audrey and Cash are enjoying "Daddy Daughter Audrey Day" and have decided to give Dave and Busters a whirl.  When you play games there, you win tickets, lots of tickets.  We began to collect these tickets and collect them in large quantities.  I was totally focused on winning tickets!!!  You've never seen good humor until you've seen a 48 year old man dive onto a single lost ticket on the floor of Dave and Busters.  Those 8 year olds don't stand a chance against me!!!!  I am king of the tickets.  Well, other than those chineese finger torture things, there isn't much good at D&B to cash those tickets in on. So we let them accumulate. 

48,000 Tickets later, we were ready to buy something. Never mind we have most likely spent a thousand or so bucks to get these tickets, we won them and winning something is much sweeter than earning something.  So, finally, two weeks ago, I use our tickets to buy an I Phone/Ipod Doc and two remote control boats.

The boats are the problem.  I played with them in the gorgeous pond/water feature right outside my new office.  I played with them like a child.  I love playing with remote control boats.  So, to me, this makes me sort of cool.  Older guy still in touch with his childhood values...while playing with the boats i would sing, "my baloney has a first name.....:"....see, i was being a child!

So the super cool people in the new office in the next building over (same water feature visible from their office) decide they want to play boats also.  Lots of boats.  They in fact brought out four big boats today and were making a tremendous racket.  Well, not really, but they didn't invite me to play so phoooooey to them those fatty fatty fat heads!

As i watched from my dimly lit office with the shades just barely open enough to see, I couldn't take it any more.  I ran out to my boat storage cabinent, grabbed one of the remotes and turned it on.  I run back to my office without these new boating enthusiasts able to see me because i had to know if MY control might control THEIR new shiny boats.  Yep it does.  It controls the yellow one. Another 49 mHz boat!!!  Horray for me, fighter of evil!

So they start racing their boats, and about every 10 feet, the yellow one just immediately goes in reverse and starts making violent circles, but just for a moment.  Then I cease my torture and it moves forward, but for only another 10 or so feet when it begins to go backwards and in violent circles.  Once again letting off, it starts to catch up to the other boats, and what do ya know????? It lurches backwards at the worst possible moment and goes into violent circles. They finally pulled it out of the water and began to work on it.  I was laughing to loud and too hard to stay and watch.

Mission accomplished, and I do blame myself.  I hope they come back tomorrow.  I love remote control boats, even when the boat I am controlling isn't mine!