Stop Annoying Me!!! pt. 2(The Chicken Wing Incident)

Oh yes just when you thought it could not get any worse, it actually does. This incident took place on Friday May 15,2009 and there are about 3 people who can testify as witnesses to what happened to me and my precious and delicious Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings from Wing-Stop. For those of you who have never heard of Wing-Stop it is pretty much like Wingers or Pluckers except low key and their chicken wings are so much better than the above mentioned restaurants. Before I begin this epic tale I will start with a preview or prelude just to give some back ground on the up coming story that follows this one. Don't worry they are connected. If you feel inclined please go to the concession stand buy some popcorn and a soft drink, don't worry I'll give you all a chance to get refills before I start "The Chicken Wing Incident"

Thursday night was just a normal day for us in Tyler, Tx we were still in the ratty hotel and by this time all of the housekeeping staff and front desk employees had gotten to know us and loved Zeus, my brothers seven month old Doberman. I sat in the office doing paper work and taking phone calls from our sales reps who were out doing door to door sales. At about 3pm I get hungry but I did not feel like going to grab a bite to eat alone so, rather than doing that I decided to call up Annoying Guy to see if he would like to go to Dairy Queen with me for lunch. He was busy at the moment playing video games so I said,"When you get to a save point in the game come to the office/my brother's hotel room and we'll go to Dairy Queen." He says ok so I head back to the office and continue doing paperwork and dog sitting Zeus. Four o' clock rolls by followed by six, seven, and eight. Finally at nine pm my phone rings and I expect it to be Annoying Guy wanting to finally go to Dairy Queen. To my surprise, it is my brother asking me and Annoying Guy to join him and the rest of the sales guys at Cici's Pizza.

Upon arriving there, Annoying Guy states that he is not hungry and therefore will not be eating and has a seat at the table where the rest of us were. I order a buffet and order a customized pizza for me. While that is being made and cooking, we all converse and kinda watch the Lakers vs. Rockets game, conversing, and having a good time. One thing about Annoying Guy is that he says the weirdest things. Our first night in Tyler he arrived at the hotel around 3am and ended up sleeping in his car because we apparently did hot hear him knocking on the door. He claims he knocked for 20 minutes before heading back to his car. However those of us who were in the hotel room are all light sleepers and would have been woken up had he actually been pounding on the door like he claims he was. Anyway back to the story. He always says weird things. For example he got bit by a mosquito. When he showed us the bite mark he said, "I think I got bit by a brown recluse spider, look!" We all looked and of course it is just a mosquito bite which we told him it was but he was very adamant about it being a spider bite. We eventually had to show him what a brown recluse spider bite looks like before he would drop the subject. Anyway back to the pizza joint. The guys were talking about lifting weights and how much they could bench and Annoying Guy decides to join the conversation. "Man, I used to be able to squat 500 pounds easily and leg press almost 1000 pounds." We just ignored him like we usually do when he says dumb things. It should be noted that this guy is skinny as a tooth pick.

As the basketball game progressed and as we ate, my customized pizza that I was waiting for finally arrives. I eat my pizza and share with other guys who had also paid. Suddenly, Annoying Guy who stated that he was not hungry and did not pay to eat, grabs a piece of my pizza and starts eating. We all look at him thinking, "You did not pay therefore should not be eating." and of course, he remains clueless. Finally there is one piece of my customize pizza left and before I have a chance to eat it, Annoying Guy picks it up and eats it. At that point I was ready to snap, not only did he not pay to eat, but he assumed that I would let him have my last piece of pizza. I was upset however when we got back to the hotel, my brother and I took Zeus, our Doberman out to play and that calmed me down. As I laid in bed that night I was not was no longer upset at Annoying Guy for stealing my pizza as I thought it was only a one time deal and it would not happen again...boy was I wrong.

Now for the main event. Thursday morning we decided that we were not having as much success with the company in Tyler so we packed up all our bags which took everyone about ten minutes to do except for annoying guy who brought everything he owned with him except the kitchen sink. He unloaded everything from his car into the hotel room which was very annoying and made moving around in the room difficult and frustrating. Needless to say it took him several hours to pack up almost costing the company to have to pay for another night for the room because he was still packing way past checkout time.

After packing two of the guys and I decide to go get lunch. We invite others to come with us but they decline. We drove around trying to decide on a place to eat and finally decide on a restaurant called Wing-Stop. We went in and ordered some Cajun flavored and Lemon Pepper flavored chicken wings and were planning on eating at the restaurant. Just then my brother, who is also the boss, calls and wants to have a meeting so we put out wings into to go boxes and drive back to the hotel. We get there and the three of us start to eat. I notice Annoying Guy who had finally finished packing was also there and I noticed him eying our chicken wings and like the night before when we invited people to go eat, Annoying Guy declined stating that he was not hungry. So I notice him eying our chicken wings, mine in particular and I knew that my lunch was endanger so, just like a dog with a piece of meat that it does not want to share I go to a corner of the room where the other 2 guys are eating their wings and join them and I keep a hand close to the wings.

Finally not being able to resist anymore, Annoying Guy asks one of the other guys if he can try one of their wings. Now, to someone like Annoying Guy when they are allowed to try one of something they ask for, they assume that they can how partake of more of whatever it was they asked for. In this case it was chicken wings. I should also note that these were the best chicken wings I have ever had.

As we ate we had a quick meeting where we decided we would relocate to a bigger city. After the meeting we were were all conversing and Annoying Guy was taking wings from the two other guys. I also was doing a pretty good job of keeping annoying guy away from me and my chicken wings and was down to one last wing. That last wing I was excited to eat because it had been at the bottom of the stack of wings and was soaking in lemon pepper flavoring and juice. I got into a conversation with one of the other guys who had gone to get wings with us. It was when I was deep in conversation that Annoying Guy made his move. He swoops in and grabs my last precious chicken wing and eats it. The other guys notice this all went silent. I gave Annoying Guy the death look and he was still totally oblivious to exactly what he had just done. He broke the cardinal rule of eating food that other people paid for which is, you never ever ask for or take the last piece of what ever food other people paid for or made without it being offered to you. I seriously felt angry and frustrated at what he had just done. I wanted to point at Annoying Guy and yell, "He stole my chicken wing!" just like Joker did to Batman when Batman stole his balloons that were filled with poisonous gas except in this case, it was a chicken wing filled with lemon pepper flavor and juice. I was upset I was speechless and I did not know what to do or how to react. The most I could do is look at the idiot and say, "Really?! Seriously?!" to which Annoying Guy had no response and kept eating my last wing.
I finally could no longer be in the same room as Annoying Guy, I grabbed my bags, threw them into the back of the pickup truck that one of the other guys and I would be driving down to our new location and waited for the other guy get in so we could go. He finally got in and off we went. I remained upset at Annoying Guy for the rest of that day and the other guy I was driving with noticed how rude Annoying Guy had been by taking my last chicken wing.

A day after we arrived at our new location, my best friend showed up at our hotel room and we went out to eat. Unfortunately, Annoying Guy was around and he followed us to the place where we went to eat which was once again, Wing-Stop. We get in and I order and pay for both myself and my best friend. Annoying Guy assumed that I was also going to pay for his lunch and was surprised when I did not, in fact he seemed a little upset. I was upset that he had followed us and I was also still upset at his stunt from the day before. To make things worse I am also having to share a hotel room with him. That night I ignored everything he said as most of it was bs and I fell asleep thinking that Annoying Guy could not possibly get anymore annoying...once again I was wrong. "The Pillow Incident" will be posted on here soon so keep an eye out for it.

Stop Annoying Me!!!

This summer is proving to be a test of my patience. No, it's not my job, it is someone at my job. Since I have left Utah one thing I have come to appreciate is the sound of silence or a quiet atmosphere with music playing at a soft tone as I work in my office/hotel room. Never in my life have I known anyone who watches or is addicted to television more than this person. From waking moment to when he goes to bed and when he is not working or eating out somewhere, this kid is watching tv or playing video games. Now now, I know that not to long ago I was doing the same thing but that was because of my job when I was a video store clerk. I am still an avid lover of film but I have gained a greater appreciation for silence and nature as I have been working.

At first it was 4 of us crammed into this two person hotel room and we would alternate who got the beds every night. One guy preferred sleeping on the floor so that was one less night that the rest of us had to wait till we got to sleep on a bed again.

However without fail this guy would watch tv till the wee hours of the morning and it was not just his tv and video game addiction that makes him annoying. He asks and says the dumbest things. A prime example of these two accusations took place on Sunday and Tuesday night. Sunday night we were all chilling at my brothers hotel room playing Texas Hold 'em . One one of the guys in our room decided to call it quits after a few hands, returns to our room, and turns in for the night. A few hours later when we were done with the poker game we are all walking back to my hotel room, the room where myself and 3 other guys are staying in. Before I continue let me just say that this hotel that we are staying in is one, not the Plaza Hotel in fact its more like the Bates motel except the owners are not murdering psychopaths. There are however drug dealers, pimp, prostitutes, and drunken winos living at this hotel as well.

Back to the story, the time was about 2am when we got back to our room. My brother, James, Joe, Felipe, annoying guy, and I arrive at my room and we find out that my key does not work so I ask annoying roommate if he has his key and as I figured because this guy is very forgetful as well, he left it in the room. What he does next is the dumbest thing ever. He pounds on the door as hard as he can and shouts, "Open up, Police!" The rest of us are like, "Dude what the hell are you stupid or something?!" Once again I was not surprised at his response, "What? What did I do?"

Example number two is not as long. We went to CiCi's pizza and were watching the Lakers/Mavericks game we are all watching including annoying guy and he out of nowhere asks, "Oh is this the Lakers/Mavericks game?" I responded, "Really?" "Seriously?" "All of us including you have been watching this game and eating pizza for the last 45 minutes."

As of now the other two guys who were sharing the room with us have gone home. One had a family emergency and will be returning in a few weeks and the other could not stand how the real world is outside the Utah Bubble and quit. For now it is just annoying guy and me.

Tonight the guys including annoying guy and I were watching an episode of South Park online but after several network disconnections I gave up on watching and came back to my hotel room to do some work on some writing on a horror novel I have been working on. I decided to run down to the local 7-11 for some Gatorade. When I got back and was just starting to have ideas flow into my brain, there is the knock of annoying guy which, always is an annoying off beat drum beat on the door. "Damit! Already?" I grumble to myself as I open the door. He then walks in and plops himself in front of the TV, turns it on, and starts watching Jerry Springer. Then he turns to me while I was just starting this blog and says, "Hey do a search on the internet and see if the Jerry Springer Show is fake." I relpy, "No! I told you yesterday that the show was fake remember?" He gives this dumb laugh and says, "Oh yeah you did huh." then returns to the Springer show.

I cannot wait till we move into a house where I can once again lock unwanted visitors out of my office/room and have limited contact with annoying guy.

FunDay

Today was a fun day. I woke up at around 8:30 and could not fall back asleep so I just laid there. Just when sleep was starting to take over, I get text message from my friend Allan. He says, "Hey do you remember those shotgun shells and clays that we bought for the Elder's Quorum shotgun activity?" I did remember and told him that I had. He then said that the semester is over and we should gather up as many of the guys from the ward and go shooting.

I agreed so we called up some other guys and ended up with only a total of 4 guys from the ward. Allan, Alex, his fiance Amanda and, The Joe. We all piled into Allan's car and drove to a spot that my friends and I usually go shooting at. When we arrived we set up a mechanical clay thrower and also looked for targets that people had left behind. This is where I wish we had a camera with us. We found these fake human heads that looked like they were practice heads for people in barber school. One of the heads kind of resembled Osama Bin Laden so we all took many shots and hit the Bin Laden head many times from different distances varying from 50 feet to only a few inches away. Needless to say, the point blank shots were pretty awesome. After we had fired off a few hundred shotgun shells and our shoulders were crying, "No more!", we picked up our spend shell casings and other garbage and came back home.

At home I hung out for a little bit and then started looking for my keys as I had misplaced them somewhere. I called my mother and asked her to check if I had left them at my brother in law's and sisters home last night when my other sister and I had gone to visit. She said they were nowhere to be found. My mother flew in a few days ago to see her first newborn grandson. I love having my parents come to visit. They are so fun. Anyway back to the business at hand. Eventually I found my keys in my sister's car. I then went to Provo to help a friend who is not too familiar with Provo City and helped him find a house where he was to translate a conversation. While he did that, I walked around Center Street in Provo and came across an old mom & pop type used bookstore. It was cool. I really hope that this bookstore does not go under.

As for work, I leave for Texas this coming Thursday and I am looking forward to spending the Spring/Summer in Texas. Apparently we are staying in a house that I was actually looking at over the internet. It is a nice house. I cannot remember but I hope it has a decent size yard so that our dog( A Doberman Pinscher) has room to run around when we are not available to take him on walks or runs.

I think that is all the events of the day.

Gran Torino

This weekend was great. I spent Friday night at work. Then on Saturday Jeremy, Justin, Becca, and I went around the different guns shops around Utah Valley. It was fun. Our last stop was Cabela's where we had lunch and spent a good two hours looking at guns. I saw an AR-15 that I want to purchase but decided to hold off on that for a little bit as I am purchasing a Nikon D90 in the next week or so. It was Jeremy's birthday so I bought his lunch. Afterwords I came back home and took a nap.

I was woken up a couple of hours later by my cell phone ringing. Jeremy was on the other line and wanted to know if I wanted o join him and our other friends Andrew for a movie. Our choices were Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, or Gran Torino. The past week I had heard so much about Gran Torino from co-workers and from neighbors that we decided to see the later.

I had only seen clips of the trailer and got vauge reviews from friends who had seen it. They all said it was great. The word great in defining that film is an great understatement. I fell in love with the movie and with the characters in the film most particularly, the bitter old racist war vet character of "Walt Kowalski portrayed by the great and legendary Clint Eastwood. The score of Gran Torino is great as well and like most films, the movie would be nothing without the magical score which in certain scenes combined with the great performances helps pull at your heartstrings. The music is composed by Kyle Eastwood and Jamie Cullum.

During the film I laughed, felt angry, sad, and cried! It is an amazing movie and I highly recommend it. I do not know how this movie was over looked by the Academy this year.

Sunday was great as well. I had a great day at church and afterwords some people from the ward came over we watched a movie and then I went and hung out with Andrew and Jolyn and had dinner and watched a few episodes of South Park Season One. After all that I am charged and ready for this new week.

Here is the trailer for Gran Torino in case you have not seen any ads for the film.

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Stupid People Part 3

I read this on Yahoo News and could not stop laughing. Check it out.


Panda Bear attacks college student who tried to give it a hug.

BEIJING – A college student in southern China was bitten by a panda after he broke into the bear's enclosure hoping to get a hug, state media and a park employee said Saturday.

The student was visiting Qixing Park with classmates on Friday when he jumped the 6.5-foot (2-meter) -high fence around the panda's habitat, said the park employee, who refused to give his name.

The park in Guilin, a popular tourist town in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, houses a small zoo and a panda exhibit. It was virtually deserted when the student scaled the fence surrounding the panda, named Yang Yang, the employee said.

He said the student was bitten in the arms and legs. Two foreign visitors who saw the attack ran to get help from workers at a nearby refreshment stand, who notified park officials, the employee said.

The student was pale as he was taken away by medics but appeared clear-headed, he said.

"Yang Yang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him. I didn't expect he would attack," the 20-year-old student, surnamed Liu, said in a local hospital, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

Liu underwent surgery Friday evening and was out of danger, but will remain in the hospital for several days, Xinhua said.

Yang Yang, who was flown to Guilin last year from Sichuan province, was behaving normally on Saturday and did not seem to suffer any negative psychological effects, the park employee said.

He said it was not clear whether the facility would add more signs around the enclosure or put more fences up.

"We cannot make it like a prison. We already have signs up warning people not to climb in," he said. "There are no fences along roads but people know not to cross if there are cars. This is basic knowledge."

Pandas, which generally have a public image as cute, gentle creatures, are nonetheless wild animals that can be violent when provoked or startled.

Last year, a panda at the Beijing Zoo attacked a teenager, ripping chunks out of his legs, when he jumped a barrier while the bear was being fed.

The same panda was in the news in 2006 when he bit a drunk tourist who broke into his enclosure and tried to hug him while he was asleep.The tourist retaliated by biting the bear in the back.

I am still laughing after reading and re-reading this. Liu, congratulations, you are this months winner of the dumb ass award. You, are officially retarded. If I was the panda bear I would have first taken a swipe at your head to try and shake your brain back into place before biting you but even then I think you would have thought, "Oh he's just an angry little bear." I hope they banned you from the zoo and if I really was presenting you with an award, I would have a trained Panda Bear present it to to you then, after you accepted it would bit you again just as a reminder that PANDA BEARS DO NOT LIKE HUGS. Especially from humans! If a trained Panda Bear was not available I would have a guy dress up in a Panda Bear costume, have him present the award to you then punch you in the face, then stomach, then face again. This is not the sneezing Panda Bear from you tube, even that bear would have bitten you.

Liu, thanks for the laugh.

30 Down ??? To Go.

I was not planning on writing any notes or blogs today but when facebook points out that I am no longer in my 20s and am still single...I tend to find that a little personal. Upon logging in today, I found new advertisements reminding me that I am no longer in my 20s. "Happy Birthday from Facebook, Xavier. Take a look at these websites, here you can meet women or men that are between the ages of 30 and 39. The love of your life is just one click away! They even offered a website called "Professional Singles USA" or something like that. Why would I want to date a "professional single"? Those two words should not ever be used back to back. By the way, what is a "professional single"? That sounds pretty bad to me and I don't want to be affiliated with any "professional single" Sounds like all the dating websites sorted through their membership databank, found the oldest members, and tossed them into this new databank, and created a website which should read, "Single For Time and All Eternity or Till Death."

How about this ad, "Click hear to purchase music that will being back nostalgic memories from your childhood. We have the greatest hits from the 70's and 80s. Do you remember where you were the first time Michael Jackson did the Moonwalk on live television? With these classic hits you will be taken back to that historic moment in pop and r&b history."

Great thanks for pointing out the facts that I am 30, single, and was alive in the last decades of great original music and to answer your question, yes, I do remember where I was when Michael Jackson showed the world the Moonwalk on live television. Not that I am complaining, I love oldies. The music today is nothing but crap. Everything sounds the same. I was recently reminded of my age when some co-workers and I watched Karate Kid 1 and 2. I stated, "Man I remember watching that movie in theaters." Then I realized that the year that those movies came out, was the year that some of my co-workers were born. Again I am not complaining.

"Xavier your half way to 60!" is that the best you can do. How about this and I have to give credit to my father for this one. "I can count higher than that, how about this one? In one thousand years, I will be 1030. How bout them apples?"

With all that said, Sorry facebook, I beat you to the punch. I don't need your 30s+ singles website. I have ldssingles.com....not that I ever use it and I have a plethora of 80's music plus another 10 cds worth of 80s music that a family member has.

Maybe in another 30 years I'll write another note and talk about the "good old days when cars ran on gas and oil instead of electricity or alcohol, and good music was Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, and Paula Abdul, and good video games were Bomberman, Pac-man, Frogger, and Dig-Dug I'll reminisce and mope about all this while sitting on my porch sipping lemonade listening to a band known as Led Zeppelin sing about a "Stairway To Heaven" on an old portable cd player while giving the bird and fist of fury to the "young whippersnappers" speeding down the street in their automobiles and motorcycles.