We played our last “regular” night of the trivia season at our bar tonight. And I told one of our players we wouldn’t need him to show up for for the semifinal (or venue tournament, as it’s called in this league) next week. And I have sent out at least 2-3 emails to the team about this. Including him. So what happened? He f—ing blew up at me and called me a “f—ing asshole” and said “I’m off the team.” And he did this in FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE. All righty! Is it MY fault he didn’t read his e-mails?

Keep in mind a couple of things…one, I only get to have a set number of players for a tournament game. Two,  this is a player who is generally NEVER available to play at final tournament games. And this is also a player I’ve cut from semifinal or “venue tournament” games in the past without incident. I have no idea why he blew up at me like this tonight. He humiliated me in front of others. Should I forgive him for this? Survey says? I’m not a person who likes burning bridges EVER, but for him? I might make an exception!

This is not to say that I haven’t ever been kicked to the curb, ignored, or otherwise forsaken by other people I care about. I have. And that has even happened to me in the past year! Yes, it really, really hurts beyond belief. And as much as I think about how much better off I’d be without the people who’d treated me this way, I always keep back a bit of reserve. I just can’t hate people that I really care about.  The eternal optimist in me always seems to want to give people the benefit of the doubt – even when they ignore me,  forsake or mistreat me. And usually, that pays off more often than it does not. I always like to think people will eventually come around if you matter to them. I’m not sorry I try to see the glass half full with everyone I meet. Sure, I get burned from time to time, but I’d like to think the rewards and lasting friendships I make with people outweigh the risks. Now back to my trivia team and this player who cursed at me!

This is also a player who was “unavailable” to play in a tournament finals in July, 2017 – yet he STILL managed to get a $200 cut of the $2,500 prize money that we had won.

Also, I am subbing him out for a player who has played in the last two tournament games with us, and has also helped us out regularly on an alternate trivia night that others cannot/will  not play.

F— him, I say! NOBODY should get away with talking to me the way that MF did. There is no way in HELL anyone should get away with talking to me that way. F— his ass. If he wants to burn bridges, consider it done, baby!

If he wants to make amends, that MF is going to have to come to ME! And he will have to kiss MY white ass!

Otherwise, f— him gently with a chainsaw, to quote the movie Heathers.  I ain’t got no TIME for this shit!