A little sports humor submitted by Thunder ...


"I will make you swallow your mouthpiece!"

Source: Sports Illustrated

As mentioned in my last post, I've placed myself on hiatus from writing for a while. In response, someone suggested that I solicit material from others as a source of entertainment during my absence. While this is actually not the first piece of material that I've received, it is the first that I am posting. More to come later.

She signed on today. I almost didn't notice. I almost didn't notice until I noticed that I almost didn't. She just signed on, when was the last time she signed on? I couldn't even recall although I knew it hadn't been that long. I'd noted her name in passing along with all the other names on my list. She was on pretty often and I hardly ever cared. I used to sit online all day just waiting for her to sign on. When she did I'd slowly count off the seconds, don't want to appear too eager. Then I'd worry, she's been on for thirty-seven seconds now and hasn't messaged me. Is she mad at me, is she not paying attention, no it must be that she doesn't even like me but doesn't have the heart to block my name. No she's probably sitting staring at my name on her list and thinking, "I've been online for forty-five seconds and he hasn't messaged me?" and trying not to appear too eager. Ok, I'll bite the bullet, I'll break the silence.

I used to hang on every word of those conversations and wait anxiously for each response to my cleverly worded and flirtatious messages. Now when she sends me a message I could care less, sometimes I'm even annoyed. We could talk for hours about nothing and now once we've caught up on location, occupation, dating status, level of life-happiness, and perhaps a few random thoughts or annoyances the conversation drifts off. This girl used to mean everything to me and now I generally don't care to spend more than a few minutes every few months catching up. Were it not for those occasional catch up convos I probably would have deleted her name from my list last time I cleaned it up, I mean she stopped having interesting away messages long ago. And when she does have an away message that mentions a guy I don't wonder who he is what he's like and if he's better than me. I've stopped caring and have yet to decide if that bothers me.

- Anonymous