Friday, October 5, 2007

The male species is useless!!!!

UselessUselessUselessUselessUselessUselessUseless UselessUselessUselessUselessUseless!!!!!

In case you are wandering I am writing this in a very p.......d off state. Very annoyed, disappointed, agitated....

I am sitting at home in my tracksuit at this very moment instead of being all glammed up at the Copeland Trophy (Collingwood best and fairest).

Why why why, you might ask????

Because I listened to a member of the male species. In particular, my other half.

It was a sunny Monday morning in August and I had the phone in my hand ready to ring the Collingwood football club to order my tickets. I then made the BIGGEST mistake in ringing my husband. In my defence, I needed a visa number to purchase my tickets. My husband then convinced me to not purchase the tickets from the Club as we could get them from our friend and maybe we could be sitting on a table near the front. This did not appeal to me anyway as why would I want to sit next to the players??? There is no way that I would approach a player and say "hey, I think you are fabulous." Don't think so!!! But hubby somehow convinced me that it would be better to get the tickets from our friend. Need I remind you all that I at this moment am sitting on the couch at HOME and not at the Crown Casino.

Over the last four weeks on numerous occasions, I reminded my hubby and his mate about the tickets, to which they replied "don't worry, you are definitely going, don't stress." Do you know how many times I heard that?

Guess what????? No tickets. Our friend rang and said he could not get tickets. So hubby rang around (as he was feeling really bad and responsible) and tried and tried but guess what??? No tickets. A couple of people he tried had sold their tickets a couple of days ago!!!

Anyway must explain reasons why I really really wanted to be there tonight?
  • As you know I sit with Mr and Mrs Maniac at the football. It was MY job to buy tickets to the Copeland Trophy and Mr Maniac's job to buy tickets for the finals. Mr Maniac on two occasions lined up at 4am to ensure we got great tickets for the games and I could not even make a simple phone call to the Collingwood football club. Can you imagine how I felt having to tell him and his wife I did not have tickets???
  • James Clement announced his retirement.
  • Nathan Buckley announced his retirement (probably the reason there absolutely no last minute tickets ).
  • Was planning to upgrade the photo on my fridge. My best friend took a photo of Allan Didak and myself at last year's Copeland trophy which has remained on my fridge for a whole year. This year was planning to maul another player, in particular Scott Pendlebury. Ha Ha only joking, don't think he is even 20 years old. I am seriously only joking.

Consoling myself in remembering that there is Nathan Buckley's testimonial dinner to look forward to. Might leave the purchasing of tickets to Mr Maniac, clearly he is more capable!!!

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY:

  1. Never ever let a member of the male species do anything you can do yourself;
  2. Trust your instincts. I think I always knew I was not going. Why else would I not have bought a new dress?????
  3. Make sure you own a visa card!!!!!!

Before I sign off might try and guess who I think will make the top 5 of the best and fairest:

  1. Tarkyn Lokyer
  2. Dane Swan
  3. Heath Shaw
  4. Scott Pendlebury
  5. Scott Burns

Not sure about Travis Cloke.