Okay – I just have two quick questions. Well, they may not be all that quick, but I’ll try to stay brief.

Question # 1)

You know those Goth / Punker types with tons of tattoos, blue hair, piercings everywhere, spiked collars, ripped tank tops to reveal as much of this as possible, and beards waxed to a sharp point? And that’s just the girls – the guys are even worse!

Okay – I’m all for freedom of expression, so no problem there. But why is it that when you pass one of them on the street and stare at them, they glare back and scream at you, “Hey – what the hell are you looking at?”

What do you think I’m looking at? If you don’t want people to stare at you, don’t walk around looking like a sideshow!!

Just what exactly is up with this? Okay – that is question number one.

Question # 2)

I went to a baseball game in Baltimore a few nights ago, and as expected, many people in the crowd were wearing Orioles jerseys with names on the back. (And yes – The Orioles still suck.) Same thing at The Ravens games – most of the crowd is dressed in Ravens jerseys, or at least the team colors.

Do these people in the jerseys think that it’s possible there will be a last minute injury and they’ll be called in to play? I’ve never really seen this happen. Even stranger (or perhaps not) - fans at a tennis match often wear tennis clothes or warm-up outfits. I mean really – what are you trying to do here? They are NOT going to invite you to play against Andy Roddick at the last minute, and if they did, he would kick your ass. You wouldn’t even see the serve let alone return it. So leave the tennis clothes at home.

How much further will this trend go? Should I start bringing my guitar to a concert in case one of the guys in the band slams his hand in a car trunk and can’t play anymore?

How would you feel if you walked into a dental office and everyone in the waiting room was wearing a smock, mask, gloves and had little replicas of dental tools? This is just weird. Fortunately you don’t see customers of McDonalds dressing like Mayor McCheese and The Hamburglar, but if the trend continues, it could happen.

Okay – just wondering aloud. Please let me know if you have the answers to these two very important questions. But for now, I gotta go. I have an appointment to take my car to the mechanic and seemed to have misplaced my coveralls with the name “Mack” on the front.

See you soon-
Rich