Taking the Kids to the Swimming Pool

My brother-in-law is a funny guy. He will often make a joke about going to the bathroom, his latest is about going #2 and calling saying “I just dropped off the kids at the swimming pool.” Finding that immensely amusing, I have copied him in that and started to say that to my wife, especially when my mom is present. My wife’s reaction is even funnier than my brother-in-law saying it, which is probably why I do it in the first place.

But back to the reason for this entry into my blog. I currently feel like a kid that was just dropped off at the swimming pool. Being part of the GeezerGamers website is like being in a giant family. Everyone there has their own opinions and they don’t always agree with each other. Most of the time, we’re all civil about it. On other occasions, we can be civil war about it. That happened yesterday between me and another Geezer that I used to play with daily. We haven’t played together in a while, and on a couple of instances, that person would say, “Yeah, let’s co-o tonight” and then that night would never show up. The last time something like this happened was on the 19th of March. We were both on at the same time, playing the same game, and I sent them an invite and they said, “Let me finish this part and I’ll be right there” and the next time I checked their status on XBL, they had logged off. No voice message, no text message, nothing.

I was expecting it, so I wasn’t that surprised. But this had happened enough for me to get pretty upset and that kind of thing sticks in my gut. But being part of a family is also about having to vent sometimes when someone upsets you or calls you crazy when you don’t think the same way they do. I don’t know if any of you have experienced that, but it does happen. So, in summation, I am sorry to anyone I offended at posting what I did. I was trying to be funny but the conversation got screwed into something completely that should have been done through PM’s.