Scott Meyer
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How to Use Your Own Ignorance as a Source of Entertainment
🕑 Added 2025-08-18 07:00:04 +0000 UTCI remember the first sporting event I ever attended. I was young enough that I don’t remember how young I was, just that I wasn’t in kindergarten yet.
My older brother was in the very earliest pee-wee baseball team at school. We went to watch one of his games. At some point, I went to an Igloo cooler bigger than me (at the time) to get a drink. As I fiddled with the little plastic spigot, a line drive nailed me in the back of the neck.
I’m sure that a lot of concerned and sympathetic things were said, but the one thing that stuck with me was both of my parents agreeing that “You have to look out when you’re at things like this.”
They spent the rest of my childhood wondering why I didn’t want anything to do with sports.
Comments
Yogi
Now I have to find off to be the wizard…
Scott Meyer
But if you told him how disappointed you are that he has no tact or compassion, you'd feel like the bad guy. (Note: I dunno the guy. He might be a great father otherwise, for all I know.)
Glen Newsome
My dad was an accomplished high school athlete. My son is av accomplished middle school athlete. That skill skipped me. Every game of my sons that I attend with my father he always reminds me of how disappointing it is that I've always been bad at sports. #family
