It is the NFL off-season (although free agency begins in 48 hours or so), and we are always thinking of ways to keep people interested in a football blog. So we'll expand our horizons to include real life. 
And what better way to start it off than to bitch and moan about things we don't like.
Allow me to begin, and feel free to chime in with your own pet peeve. (I have a feeling we're in "Hookslide's" wheelhouse again.)
1. Cell phone etiquette: If you are in a public space, such as a train, bus or restaurant, please do not speak loudly. I know we hear these requests repeatedly, but it seems not everyone has gotten the memo. I find it particularly amusing when seemingly well-educated, well-groomed men and women carry on a cell phone conversation as if they're the only ones in the room.
I was on a train once when a balding, middle-aged man was talking to his wife. He asked her to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy. As the conversation continued, he was rather open about the fact that the prescription was for a product that ... um ... improves one's potency.
The gentleman sitting next to me picked up on the conversation as well - heck, the entire train car probably heard the guy - and told me he's seriously thought about purchasing equipment to jam cell phone calls. (Craig informs us such equipment is illegal, so proceed at your own peril. We are not endorsing anything connected with this, merely passing on information from a stranger on a train.)
Comments (9)
The jamming equipment is illegal, you might want to note that. Couple restaurants in NYC are utilizing it now, but must be careful.
Too many people think that their living room follows them wherever they go.
Also, if you can find or extract Matt McBriar's Madden NFL picture, he's a dead ringer for Conan O'Brien...
BG,
Need an article on the late, great Myron Cope instead of cell phone pet peeves today. If not for him, the world would have never been blessed with Terrible Towles or awesome catch phrases like "Oy and Double Oy". He was an absolute legend in Pittsburgh and bigger than many of the Hall of Famers on their 70's teams in the eyes of the fans.
BBiB!
...wow...small world....so you and Black N Gold were actually on the same train and didn't even know it....hmmm
seriously...bob...admit it...you have nothing against train-riding cell-talkers...you have a problem with us balding middle-aged guys with E.D.
sorrrrry...
not all of us can look like major college hoop coaches...although I HAVE been compared to the legendary Pat Summit
I'm a New Yorker in exile, but I loved Myron ever since I saw him singing "Deck The Halls" my first winter here in Pittsburgh.
I also remember being tickled when the Steelers drafted Leon Searcy in the first round and Myron Cope was the first Pittsburgh media person to get him on the phone. He didn't tone himself down at all, and poor Searcy must have thought he was headed to a city of lunatics.
Myron Cope was an American original, and he will be missed.
Not enough media coverage of the daily soap operas surrounding Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan...Just kidding.
Sorry to disappoint you Hook, but this is one mate who doesn't have a problem with his "Hookslide".
Glad to see you still have a fixation on me though...
BNG...
all good...I wouldn't say I am fixated on you...it's more of a comfortable admiration...
I always thought it was mutual, but I could be wrong.
If I have to focus all of my childish humor at Bob and Neil Best, I might as well stay off the blog....
Criss Cross. Criss Cross. Cant slip that line pass me.
Bob, I was at NYIT watching that movie in an old movie class, and when the tennis player punches the bad guy I said outloud, "You shouldn't have done that Guy." (not sure of the name now but I knew it then). Then the bad guy gets up, puts his hand on his chin and says, "You should't have done that Guy." Everyone turned around and it was the one moment in my life, where I was truly a hero!