Rude or Not?

I am back in Destin for the 2nd time. Enjoying myself in the condo we rented for the week overlooking the beach. On my many trips to Florida, one thing that can't be ignored is how rude the people in Florida can be.

You realize as many of them have transplanted to Florida from Northern states, or rather snowbirds down for a week or several weeks that it isn't so much as they are rude as it is just the way they are.

It is to the point now that I just laugh about it. The latest is at this Car Wash we went to. This shows how the way of thinking breeds bad service and rudeness.

As we pull in there is a special called Wash & Go for $6.99. As we get to the attendant I tell him we want the special, he says OK, but we charge $2 extra for bug remover. I look at him and say that is kinda the purpose of getting the car washed is to get it clean. So paying $7 washes the car but doesn't get it clean? Then he says to get it hand-dried will cost $2 more. OK, so now drying is not part of the washing process. If you want us to wash it, you have to pay extra for us to wipe it off so it doesn't get spots on it and looks like it was never washed.

I am reminded of another pet peave, where they charge you a per tire fee to rotate all 4 tires. Everytime I hear this I can't help but think did you actually rotate my tire if you didn't remove another one so you have somewhere to rotate it to? If that is the case can I just get a 1 tire rotation? Charge me the same price in the end, but don't charge me per tire! Anyhow, this is an aside, back to the story:

I am like wow, so at this point I say well I may as well get the $11 wash since you are charging me for it anyway. He says yeah but we still have to charge you $2 extra for bug remover. I just laugh, whatever! I charge it to my nearly maxed out Floridians are rude account and wait patiently while they wash the bugs, but don't hand dry my car!!

My fault for being from Texas where for $5 they spray down your car to remove the bugs, and hand dry it at the end. Almost to say is there any other way to wash a car??? Read more!

Daily Observations

Starting a new series. Doesn't mean I am going to post these every day, I am more so just mentioning something that I observed that although insignificant I found to be interesting. We will call this one:

"I'm not sure..."

I stopped by CVS Pharmacy a few weeks back to get a shaving brush.

You know how at the pharmacy they have candy at the front counter with all of the cashiers, of which there is usually only one. As I searched for a pack of gum, I hear a man saying, "are you in line?"

Initially I paid it no attention since I wasn't exactly standing in front of the cashier, but then he said something else, which I take was another way of basically asking the same question. So I looked back to see this Asian girl standing behind me. She was short with long hair, real tight jeans, and a clean face.

I just kind of looked for a moment, then I looked around for the guy that had asked, "are you in line?" Thinking maybe he was talking to her, but I saw no one else standing around, so still not really grasping what was going on I answered, "go ahead," and the girl preceeded to the cashier.

So I look on in astonishment as she converses with the cashier, and realize that the voice I heard belonged to this girl. Ar first I was like wow, she talks like a guy, then I was like acutally she is a guy.

So as he leaves, I walk up to the cashier and say wow he caught me off guard, I thought he was a girl. The cashier was like I know he does, he was giggling so, and he was buying cigarettes so I thought maybe he was underage, but he was 25.

I was like he wasn't dressed up as a girl or anything, he just looked like a girl. We agreed and just shrugged at each other, as to say s-t-r-a-n-g-e! Read more!

MFFL

For those of you that don't know what MFFL means it is "Mavs Fan For Life."

I will admit to being rather bandwagon fan of the Mavericks. Considering I am a Sports Nut, the NBA is way down on my list. That being said I probably go to 5-6 games a year, probably watch all or part of 20 games a year on TV, and heck I was even a ball boy for the Mavericks for several years growing up. So I may not bleed Mavericks but I am more than qualified to give a rational opinion.

Rational, which is the subject of this blog in regards to the Mavs and the firing of Avery Johnson.

If you know me you know that I am not defending Avery as the "Black" coach. If you look back to one of my earliest blogs on Ron Washington you will see an illustration of that fact. That was before he even coached a game, I am SO utterly displeased now I can't even write a blog on the Rangers and hold to my commitment to keep the blog PG!


I have 2 issues, the first is very simple:

1) Teams don't usually find success after firing coaches that win 75% of their games. The hopes that you just need the right guy to come in and give you the nudge over the the top is very much an exception. It just creates a bad vibe to fire successful coaches, particularly one that is young and on the rise. Avery's winning percentage was trending towards Red Aurebach...

2) Cuban keeps making bad decisions that are considered as "reasonable" at the time.

a) We refuse to pay Nash and he goes to PHX and becomes a 2-time MVP. As much as everyone thought it made sense to move Nash the Jason Terry-Devin Harris-Jason Kidd experiment at PG have been huge failures and we are still in search of a PG.

b)We refuse to pay Finley and he moves 5 hours away and wins a Championship. As much as everyone thought it made sense to move Finley the Doug Christie-Eddie Jones-Jerry Stackhouse experiment at SG have been huge failures and we are still in search of a SG. I mean really Doug Chrisitie is your plan? That pretty much makes my whole argument by itself!!!

Now we fire Avery.... Just to name a few, and the irony of it all is we are much farther above the salary cap than had we re-signed Nash and Finley.

All of these were considered reasonable at the time.... the problem is he (Mark Cuban) keeps making these decisions without a plan!

The latest seems to follow the same questionable pattern. The plan is to bring in a coach (in Rick Carlisle) that is also defensive minded and has been fired from his previous 2 jobs??

In regards to the state of the franchise Avery is probably fortunate. Things are looking bleak as this team is well over the salary cap, with minimal tradeable assets, and no draft picks for the next couple of years.... We may have seen the end of an era and it is likely that Carlisle will be gone and Cuban will have to remove himself from Basketball Operations before it bounces back!
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