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Sep 25, 2022
7:45:13pm
Doctor Toboggan Walk-on
So today is the day where we're debating swearing and eating our own, yeah?

TL;DR: There are lots of things that ruin a game experience, swearing can be one of them—selfishness comes in all forms, and plenty of people who don't swear can still annoy the heck out of the rest of us.

 

There's lots of things that can take a great night out at LES and turn it into a sour experience—a loss not included. 

My dad, brothers, uncle and I had the same 8 season tickets for years—we were stacked 4 on top of 4 so we could all share our amazing insights into the game with one another—because like everyone else on CB, we are masters of football strategy. 

Some years back a dope and his lady dope came in with his family of 8+. They sat on one of the rows that our season tickets were on. It was pretty clear from the get-go that they had purchased tickets that were scattered in different sections but they wanted to sit together—so their solution? 

Take all of the 4 seats on one of our rows while the seats were empty before kickoff and before the rest of our party had arrived. 

 

The mom and dad were furthest away from us so occupying our season seats were 4 girls, the oldest being maybe around 14.

I got the attention of the father and told him that the seats were taken and he literaly dismissivly waved both hands at me and even did the "psh" face right as the rest of our party arrived who were confused as to why their seats were taken. 

My uncle, who is a very very nice man gently asked the girls if they wouldn't mind moving as they were in our seats. The poor things started to panic—their dopey parents just left them in an awkward situation and while the 14 year old stared down the row to look at her parents to see what she should do, the parents were trying to not look our way—a sort of awkward-off contest was in play to get us to relent.

So I once again tried to get the attention of dopey dumb dad and he tells me to "grow up" and dopey dumb mom tells me I'm "behaving like a child". 

Right around now is when the poor young teen started to cry which sent dumb dad and dumb mom into a righteous fury, I'll tell you what.

I was told I should be ashamed of myself, "look what you did, you made her cry!" and many many more smokescreens of offense were exploded in front of us only for Dope 1 & 2 to then sit back down and abandon their daughter—who was in tears—to a weird situation. 

Not only would they not walk down the row to look at the tickets to confirm that they had in fact taken our seats—because they knew—but they were actively trying not to look at us after our interaction. I couldn't believe it. I felt so bad for their daughter and other kids who were completely stonefaced—what a horrible experience of these youngins. 

So kickoff was about to happen and me and my crew decided to not get an usher—and just deal with it instead. Not only was the young girl already traumatized but the idea of her having to watch her clueless parents get a talking to and then taken from their seats just seemed like it was going to ruin the night for everyone. 

Dope 1 & 2 won their shrewd game of awkwardness. Chekmate. 

This of coure was a problem for a few our crew who are—shall we say—ample-bottomed, and take up every inch of their assigned seats—but nevertheless we crammed into a 2 stacked on top of 2 situation.

We felt really bad for the poor girl who was now isolated from her family sitting on the far end of the row and not having a good time, so me and the boys went down at half time and bought her a bunch of BYU gear and high-fived her during TD's to try to make sure she had a good time. 

 

In the end, the game went on, we tried to make the most of the situation, we went on to watch Riley Nelson lead a miracle comeback against Utah State highfiving the girl who cried and making jokes with her younger sisters—we made the best out of the situation but it wasn't a happy ending.

I will never forget how the cougartail churned in my stomach as the mom came up to me after the game to tell me that I..."did the right thing." 

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Swearing can be bad and ruin a game experience. This is true. 

 

So can dumb parents. 

 

But I honestly don't think one is worse than the other, and there's not an Honor Code that protects the majority of fans from other dumb selfish fans—even when they're not swearing. 

 

My take away? Everyone neets to just chill, and learn to squeeze your fatt butts into uncomfortable positions and learn to make the most out of it. Humans are weird and putting 64k+ humans together stupid things are bound to happen. 

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