eek.gif Just goes to show...you think you know someone, and then....
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
This is a great story.
I think you should go out of your way to antagonize & taunt this guy.
About 10 years ago, I was living in Pennsylvania and going to school. A new guy in the LDS ward that I didn't know at all called me on the day of the BYU-Utah football game & started telling me how BYU was going to kill Utah and he hoped I was ready to get crushed. Puzzled, I asked him how he even knew that I was a U of U graduate, and he said that he had asked around the ward to find one.
I told him that out there in Pennsylvania (I think he had recently moved from Provo), people didn't really get worked up about a MWC game, that sure I would root for my team but that I wasn't really much of a trash-talker - especially to people I barely knew.
This was the Ratliff year.
Then Ratliff & the team pulled out the OT win and this guy never talked to me again. This is why I will love Ratliff forever.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Wow. That's insanity. I can't imagine the nerve to call someone you've never met just to talk trash about a football game regarding two mediocre teams. Here in Vegas, I have a minivan park next to me every morning. There our cars sit next to each other every day, a drum and feather on one rear window and a Yahoo sticker on the other. We've done this for years and have never uttered a word to each other. Pretty sure that he's an engineer though, so there wouldn't be much to say anyway.
It's a good question. For a long time he drove, what was probably a '98 Honda Civic. All of a sudden, he started showing up in a spawned out Sienna. Seemed pretty obvious that his wife got an upgrade. I just haven't figured out if the upgrade was just a new car or a new dude as well.
I think I found a picture of the "spawned out" minivan from your story, Nevada plates and all.
Minivan.jpg
LOL. This van's stickers remind me of an article in The Economist awhile back.
http://www.economist.com/news/united...rtraits-wheels
I recently saw a rear-window sticker featuring two adults, no kids, both looking really happy & sitting on piles of ca$h. Made me laugh.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
I gotta know where this happened.
If it's in Utah, the BYU fan should be used to it.
If it's out of state, the BYU fan will tell you he never thought of Utah as a rival because he didn't grow up there.
My guess its somewhere in the Intermountain West, outside of Utah.