Parking Cars at the Bills’ game
I’m a senior in High School so naturally i am low on cash. A friend of mine offered me a job to help park cars in a gravel lot near Ralph Wilson Stadium during the home Bills’ games. He said it would pay ten bucks an hour and that i would work about four to five hours on a given Sunday when the Bills were playing at home. He also said I would even get to be home in time to catch the last three quarters of the game. How could i refuse? Ten bucks an hour to wave a little red flag in the air and tell people where to park their cars. And i get to be home in time to catch most of the game. Sounds easy to me!
It pretty much is the easiest job in the World. I basically pick a nice place to plant my feet, wave my little red flag in the air, and send the cars in the direction my boss wants them to park. Could it be any easier? I mean they could have a monkey stand there and do the exact same job i do and it would only cost them a banana for the monkey to eat. Instead they have me stand there with a red polo on and point cars in the direction where they should park with my trusty red flag in my hand.
Today i pretty much goofed off before the large crowd of cars piled in. When someone asked me where to park i would reply and say, “Just park between the lines or park between those two rocks over there.” Pretty sarcastic of me because the entire parking lot is made up of gravel and rocks and there isn’t a single chaulk line for parking. Nobody really took my remarks too seriously. Actually, the people i told those statements to got a good laugh when they realized how dumb the statements really were.
Most of the people there get really into the tailgating. While I’m standing around waiting for a car to come they’re having a blast getting all hyped for the Bills’ game. Let me tell you its torture when you haven’t had any lunch and the people next to you a whipping up some BBQ chicken.
If there’s one thing i love about Buffalo its the people that live here. There are over 80,000 people at the stadium to cheer on a team that hasn’t gone to the playoffs since before the turn of the new millennium. They are so united and absolutly love there Buffalo sports’ teams, and i will admit i love the Sabres and Bills too. Year after year they break our hearts but we always come back to root for them a again the next season. They people there are also really nice, except when it comes to fans of the other team. Sometimes they’ll offer me a beer or get all up in my face and scream, “GO BILLS!” A group of fans took an old Willis McGahee jersey and burnt it. All around the people there were having a great time. Not to mention the Bills won the game which sent them all home happy.
Maybe for one of the upcoming Bills home games i will buy tickets and take a day off from parking cars to enjoy the tailgating experience for myself.
Where’s the rock?
October 15, 2007
Filed under Favorites, Hobbies, Music, Telivision
Tags: rock music tv vh1 mtv sucker free rap radio
Is it just me, or has rock music fallen off the planet the past few years. I mean you turn on the tube these days, put on MTV or VH1, and all you hear is rap and pop music. I have no problem with either genre of music. I have some rap songs on my ipod, but i can get really sick of the stuff really fast.
I put MTV2 on today and they had that Sucker Free Countdown on, which is a countdown of the 20 best rap songs of the week. i thought to myself how can someone watch a countdown of all rap for two straight hours? i listened to one song and the guy was rapping so fast i couldn’t understand one word he was saying. i felt like pulling my hair out. i wanted to hear some good tunes while i was exercising. so after i got sick of the rap music i was listening to, it took my about 10 seconds to finally change the channel.
i put on Vh1 and they had the top 20 video countdown on. i figured this is good, the top 20 countdown should have a good variety of music to listen too while i exercise. maybe I’ll actually hear some good rock music. it turned out that there was only about 10 minutes left of the 2 hour program. before they showed the number one video of the week they showed a recap of the videos that placed 20-2. i was disappointed to find out that the heaviest song on the countdown was a Maroon 5 song. how crummy is that? how am i supposed to pump and iron and hit the treadmill while listening to Maroon 5?
there was a song by velvet revolver on there. the only reason why i mention this is because they are a combo of Guns n Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, who are two amazing bands. The song they had on there sounded like something my mom would want to listen to on the soft rock channel on the radio. the song sounded like some crappy jingle you would hear in the elevator.
After the dissapointment of the VH1 countdown i figured i would try my luck with the radio. the #1 video of the week was a nelly furtodo song by the way. Nothing gets me pumped up like a a good Nelly Furtodo song huh?
So i turn on the only rock station i know of, 103.3 the edge. How could they let me down? well after about 15 minutes of commercails on how to save money on car insurance and coffee at dunkin doughnuts, metallica’s enter sandman came on. Finally i can feel pumped up while i work out. After hearing songs by Metallica, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue, and many toher bands from the ate 80’s early 90’s my workout was complete. it was then that i realized i didnt hear a single rock song that came out in the past 10 years.
What will it take for new rock music to take over mainstream music on the airwaves and the telivision?
My Writing Territories
October 2, 2007 
- Accomplishments
- Family
- Friends
- Favorites – Sabres, Bills
- Sports – Hockey, soccer
- Games – CanJam
- Music – Listen to it everyday
- Books
- Food – I love food
- Worries – Job, college
- Places – School, home, trips
- Hobbies – Hockey, friends, eating
- Goals – College, job
“Accepted” Movie
September 26, 2007
Filed under Hobbies, Movies, Places, Worries
Tags: accepted movie college school grades
Over the weekend i came home in the afternoon and took a seat on the couch in my basement. I picked up the remote, turned on the tube, and hit the TV guide button to see what was going to be on in the next half hour of programming. I scrolled through the usual stuff, ESPN, MTV, FUSE, stuff like that. i had some time on my hands so i figured i would see what movies were coming up next on HBO.
The movie “Accepted” came up so i figured i would wait out the 5 minutes until it came on. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. It had many funny parts in it. I thought it was quite the coincidence that i was watching a movie about applying to colleges since i will probably be doing that in the upcoming months. I figured maybe i would learn a thing or two about college life by watching this movie. I turned out to be slightly mistaken that the movie would feature your average college.
The movie was mainly about an average high school kid ready to move out into the real world and take on the job of applying for colleges. Unfortunately his grades weren’t that amazing and he wasn’t accepted into any of the colleges he applied to. Instead, he comes up with the genius idea of creating his own college called, “South Harmon Institute of Technology.” (S.H.I.T. oddly enough). He rents out an old abandoned psychiatric ward to use as the campus for his parents to visit during open house and creates a fancy website featuring a fake college to fool his father into thiking that the school actually exists. His plan backfires when hundreds of kids come in saying that they were accepted to the college that he created due to the phony website. So he has to step up and take complete control over the operations of running a college. He let’s the students create, teach, and take their own classes which make for some hilarious scenes in the movie. “Accepted” made college look like a blast. Now i realize that college wont be anything like the one that the kid in the movie created but I hope it comes close.
Basically what i learned from this movie is that college should be a whole lot of fun. However, on a more serious note, i also learned that i should try to make good grades with my final year in High School. I mean imagine if the kid in the movie didn’t come up the genius idea to create his own college. He would be flipping burgers over at Burger King right now. Hopefully i will work real hard in the remainder of my final school year and get accepted to some great colleges. Or maybe i will just use the inspiration from the movie to create my own college.
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