100 big ones
Monday, March 23, 2009
Yeah, It's time once more.
I don't know if you're all already sick about it, though.
"Hello. We managed to find the jerseys. Pease be prepared to pay about $100 for top and bottom. We couldnt order from the supplier hence we bought from boutiques. Just to let you know that it will cost around that range, and regardless of the final team lineup, please pay as I feel it is only responsible that you do so. Thanks. Happy Holidays and all the best for MBT for the J2s!"
He feels that its responsible to pay up. Pay up for some Jersey he so wants because the great Nadal played in it. Pay up for what he likes and wants the whole team to be dressed in.
1) The last notification and update I got on the whole jersey thing was before the March Break, with them complaining they couldn't find it from warehouses and thinking of what to do next. The next thing I know, it's already been bought. All 1.2k of it.
2) They didn't even ask for my size. I wasn't even notified that they would buy it. Sure, they have my training jersey size, but since when is it one size fits all? Since when does a person go ahead and buy a 100 bucks apparel for you, not ask for your size, and find it only responsible of you to reimburse him?
3) Why the heck do you want the jersey so much that you still want to get it from boutiques that offer little or no discount? It must be because of Nadal, isn't it? It must be because he doesn't realise that imposing his fantasies onto other teammates is fine, isn't it? Even if it makes them foot 100 bucks for a jersey unimportant to them, it's their duty to stand by his hero.
It isn't 7 bucks we're talking about here. It isn't 17 bucks. Its a whole 100 bucks jersey, one that a poor undeserving dude (might be me) has a duty to wear. And when asked if he got to the tennis team to wear that cool looking (o rly?) 100 bucks jersey, he would say no. No, he wasn't on the team, but he foot 100 bucks out his rear end to pay for it anyway, because it is what awesome friends do. Awesome friends with far more awesome parents.
I am in awe of the limits my tennis teammates seem to stretch with regards to imposing their lack of awareness of the origins of money onto others. I am in awe of how it seems someone managed to pay 1.2k to pay for all the jerseys on the assumption that all will pay. All but perhaps one.
What I am not surprised at, is how I am going to delay payment until I know the final lineup. There is no way, absolutely no way, I am paying for the jersey if I don't get onto the team. And if I do get into the team, I will resign myself to the sorry fate of having to be stuck with a few arseholes for a few more months.
The world is depressing when you are stuck with people like that.
posted by joseph at 1:41 PM