Sports Tickets: Washington Redskins Sue 72-year-old Woman

Redskins:  You never had a better fan than hard-working, still-working real estate agent Pat Hill.   But times are tough and she just couldn’t afford her long-term contract for seats.   And you had thousands of people willing to pick up her contract so that you could let her off the hook.   Which is what other sports teams do in a situation like this one.

But you didn’t.   You sued her.  A judge awarded you $66,000.   Well-played.  Not.

Everyone else:  Read the story at Canadian Jordan Cooper’s blog.

Restaurants: Keep Your Germs to Yourself

Today we visited one of the few “all you can eat” places I know that has, rather than an Oriental theme, an Italian one.

Located just north of Toronto, Ontario; Frankie Tomatoes is a treat both visually and gastronomically, and is reasonably priced by Toronto standards.

Of course, in a buffet situation, one is continually in physical contact with serving spoons, lifters and tongs that are being used by other people, so the guy who was walking around in a major sneezing fit — followed repeatedly by rubbing his hands on his nose — was rather obvious.

And while race doesn’t matter in this story, I do believe that he was of Oriental extraction, so this may have simply been sabotage by a group of the aforementioned other “all you can eat” places.  OK, I’m kidding.   Sort of.

Note to self:  At the earliest mention of the fall/winter onslaught of H1N1 (Swine Flu) avoid this type of place like the plaugue.    (Ha Ha!  Like the plague.  Get it? )   If any one particular kind of restaurant is a breeding ground for the rapid spread of germs throughout the larger community, this is the one.

Note to everyone:  DON’T GO to this type of place if you’re sick.   Stay home.   Order take out.

When Your Rights are Trampled

This is probably a bit outside the scope of this blog, but in my quest for a good night’s sleep or the ‘peaceful enjoyment’ of my property, I’m always amazed at how my perceived rights are walked on by others.   Here’s what I mean.

• If you’re a non smoker, and somebody smokes in your vicinity, your fresh air vanishes, but you can’t retaliate by walking into a smoky bar or workplace and fill it with fresh air.
• If you like peace and quiet, and your neighbors keep holding late night parties, your peace vanishes, but you can’t retaliate by doing some action which fills their noisy space with silence.
• If your neighbor has ten solar lights, three motion lights and a couple of lampposts, and you prefer things to be dark at night, you can’t retaliate by aiming darkness at their lighted property.
• If you suffer from allergies or asthma and you’ve asked your neighbors to refrain from pesticide spraying or campfires, there’s no ‘opposite’ that you can inflict on them or use to counteract the effects you’re suffering.
• If your neighbors insist on turning their front yard into an auto body and repair shop, no matter how nicely treed and aesthetically pleasing you make your own front lawn, it won’t counteract the fact that it’s the front of their house that’s in your field of vision.

Basically, the bad guys, the selfish guys, win every time.