Something Wicked This Way Comes

It's Georgia/Florida Weekend...AGAIN


Dang it all. I can't believe that once again we're going to be forced to live through yet another "Football Weekend" here in the Golden Isles.

The most damning thing is that there isn't a NCAA Division I college football stadium within 75 miles of our house, yet beginning today and continuing through Sunday we're going to be assaulted by grown men and women that should know better barking like drunken idiots and hooting and hollering and generally acting up in public.

The source of all of this misbehavior is, of course, the Georgia/Florida football game down in the stadium in Jacksonville this weekend. I almost wrote the words "Gator Bowl" when I mentioned the stadium, but now in this schizophrenic world they call it something else depending on who's playing--Florida Jaguars or whatever. (The last time I was there Georgia Tech beat Notre Dame back in the late 1990's.)

Any way, every idiot that has ever set foot in Athens Georgia, and all of the other idiots that never went to college at the University of Georgia but still cheers for "The Dogs", along with a good portion of the people that meet those same qualifications for the University of Florida will descend on our lovely little island home this weekend and proceed to make life unbearable for those of us that are fortunate enough to live here year round.

The Winn Dixie parking lot will see car loads of people loading onto buses to make the trip down to the stadium, and every single restaurant will be crammed with red/black and orange/blue clad fans stepping and stumbling over everyone and everything that gets in their way.

Have you figured out by now that I've learned to HATE Georgia/Florida weekend?

The most amazing thing to me is, the WOMEN, full grown women, behave worse than the men do.

Imagine that???

I'm going to the grocery store on Thursday, then coming home, bringing Missy the Turbo Pup inside, and locking our doors until Monday.

Wish us luck, if you will...