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Michael Phelps (Rant Warning)
The whole world seems to have weighed in on Phelps, everyone but me - and I'm sitting about 500 feet away from the guy. Every day. Never actually met him, to my knowledge, but he grew up 2 miles from my house, and the office is 500 feet, if that, from the Meadowbrook Practice Facility where he trains every day. He's usually there when I come in to work. The bosses have met him at the pool, and my supervisor's sister, who is visiting for a few weeks to help her post-surgery, has been subject to the media frenzy the last week every time she tries to swim. (She assures me, the paparazzi is absolutely crazy over there.) And as long as we're on full disclosure, I don't smoke pot - tried it once in college, didn't like it, never even thought about it again. Don't drink alcohol either. My lone drug is caffeine. But I don't see the big deal about pot, I find alcohol to be a far more dangerous drug in oh so many ways, and I'm oft baffled that pot is illegal but alcohol is everywhere.
Anyway, all that said, I don't get it. The guy took a hit off a bong. So what? There's what, 300 worse things in the world he could do? And the world's piling on him for doing something that's harmless, if a bit embarassing? How many athletes are out there who've shot people, beat their girlfriends, crashed their cars and killed someone, and no one bats an eye? But this young guy goes to a party and it's a bigger crisis than the financial one. To those people with their underwear in a twist over this: get over it. Get a life. You'll find if you have a life, you'll be far too busy to be freaking out over how other people live theirs.
Rant over.
Anyway, all that said, I don't get it. The guy took a hit off a bong. So what? There's what, 300 worse things in the world he could do? And the world's piling on him for doing something that's harmless, if a bit embarassing? How many athletes are out there who've shot people, beat their girlfriends, crashed their cars and killed someone, and no one bats an eye? But this young guy goes to a party and it's a bigger crisis than the financial one. To those people with their underwear in a twist over this: get over it. Get a life. You'll find if you have a life, you'll be far too busy to be freaking out over how other people live theirs.
Rant over.