Robservations: Not your ordinary 1-B column
It’s time for some random Robservations — some which have come to your friendly neighborhood sports editor recently, and some which have been weighing on my mind for some time.
Hold on to your hats, gentle readers. Because we’re going to be jumping around a lot for the next few paragraphs.
• If you’re like me, you drive a little red truck and make the decision each morning of which MTSU cap to wear.
But I digress.
If you’re just a little like me, in that you work in the downtown McMinnville area, you deal with the same problem I deal with each day — traffic caused by drivers who either don’t know, or don’t care about, the rules of the road.
Each day, even though my route to work is relatively short, I have to negotiate two obstacles.
First, I have the West Main-to-Main St. curve, behind SuperRama. I’m coming straight from the Westwood Bridge, and I always have to try and guess whether people making the left turn onto Main are going to (a) stop, (b) stay in their lane and let me come through in mine, or (c) dart into the center or right lane and kill me.
Next, we have the bane of my existence: Court Square, from Main to Morford. Why is it, no matter what time of day it may be, I can’t drive down that particular piece of asphalt without someone backing out in front of me from the post office?
They never look, they just back right out — assuming everyone coming down the street will stop to let them. And most people do, thereby stopping the car behind them, and the car behind that one, and so on, and so on.
Just once, I’d like to plow into someone right in front of the post office, just to teach them, if no one else, that you should look backwards before you drive backwards. But my insurance guy probably wouldn’t like that.
• How about that Warren County A&L Fair? What a great time we all had at the county’s biggest annual get-together.
Someone once told me, “You can live in Warren County all your life, and you’ll see people at the fair that have also lived in Warren County all their lives. But you only see them once a year, and that’s at the fair.”
“And you know the funny part?” he added. “The other 51 weeks a year, you don’t really miss those people.”
The biggest thing about this year’s fair, I thought, was the fact that award-winning country singer Trace Adkins was the featured performer in Monday night’s concert. I wondered how the fair officials landed such a “name” act, then I was informed that Adkins was signed years ago, before he became such a star.
It makes you wonder what unknown acts they may already have signed for future fairs, and what sort of stars they will have become before they head to McMinnville.
• One last thing: What’s the deal with the county buying a house for $1? Could I get a deal like that? Could I have gone to the same HUD Website and purchased this property, beating the county to the punch?
What if, when the county went to HUD with their $1 bid, I had jumped up and said, “I’ll give you $10 for it!” Would I now own this house?
Doesn’t seem fair to me.
• You know, I just realized this column, all 16-1/2 inches of it, hasn’t had a thing to do with sports.
No analysis, no score predictions, nothing at all to do with ballgames or ballplayers of any kind.
Looking back, it probably shouldn’t have run in the sports section.