Here’s to you, graffiti artists!

Posted by You Sir on Jun 3, 2010 in Here's to you Sir!, Inanimate Objects, Once Upon a Time in a Restroom | 0 comments

I’m throwing you a curve ball today.  This isn’t about something or someone that ticked me off, but something I just plain love.  That thing is graffiti.  I’m not talking about the sophisticated “art form” that graffiti can be, I’m talking about some dude with a Sharpie in a bar bathroom writing something on the wall that he thinks is funny, or witty, or philosophical, or just hateful. Below, we have what I hope is a reference to the classic 90’s comedy “Dumb and Dumber.”  The fact that this is the only thing written in the bathroom combined with the sheer size made it hilarious and impressive.  It also makes me think it was relatively fresh and the gas station hadn’t had time to paint over it yet.  Regardless, I had to snap a picture of it. My second favorite form of graffiti is the sticker.  I love bathrooms at music venues that are plastered with band stickers on every wall.  I don’t think this little gem...Read More

Here’s to you, Smooth Operator!

Posted by You Sir on Jun 1, 2010 in Conversations overheard, Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 7 comments

We’ll go ahead and get this out of the way…I’m an eavesdropper.  If you’re near me, and not talking to me, I’m still listening to every word you’re saying.  It’s what I do.  It’s half the reason this blog exists.  I don’t shut people out, I embrace every weird little thing I have a chance to experience.  Today, I’m calling out a hipster not just based on a conversation I overheard, but an entire afternoon I shared with him from across a coffee shop. I was at Dancing Goats in Decatur (home to the world’s best coffee, by the way) reading one Sunday afternoon when a young couple walked in.  They were stylishly dressed, both in almost all black.  The guy, we’ll call him Devin, was wearing black shoes, black pants, a black shirt, a black puffy vest, and black sunglasses.  He kinda looked like a hipster version of Randy from “My Name is Earl.” *This, plus all black everything They come in, get their...Read More

Here’s to you, Line Jumper!

Posted by You Sir on May 26, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 8 comments

One of the rules I have for this site is that I won’t write about people I know.  I’m going to break that rule today.  One of my coworkers so proudly commits one of my biggest pet peeves on an almost daily basis that he is no longer protected under this rule.  He’s a line jumper. He owns a Corvette and this car means the world to him.  It’s almost all he ever talks about.  He keeps it covered in the parking lot so pollen and dust won’t get on it.  He washes it with a wet towel in the rain.  In.  The.  Rain.  He usually parks it so far away from our office that I don’t know he’s actually at work when I arrive.  When he does this, he usually tucks it neatly within the confines of one parking space, always backing in.  On some days, however, he feels it necessary to park right next to our office.  On those same days, to keep it protected from dings and scratches, he takes up two parking spaces.  He’s a line jumper, purposely...Read More

Here’s to you, Cold Water!

Posted by You Sir on May 24, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 0 comments

I was on the interstate Saturday driving back to my house when I came upon two guys on motorcycles. From a distance, they were some pretty bad looking dudes. They had tricked out Harleys, skull face masks, and both were wearing black leather vests. On the back of the vests were each person’s biker nickname. I owned a motorcycle for a few years, but I’m by no means a biker. I’m not really sure of how these groups, or clubs, or “gangs”, if you will, are run. I don’t know how you go about getting your nickname, but in the case of these two gentlemen, one seems slightly unfortunate and the other, absolutely tragic. The first biker was named Ice Man. That’s a reasonable nickname. Amongst many possible references, you’ve got the Marvel comic character who first appeared in an X-Men comic in 1963. There’s the famous frozen mummified corpse from approximately 3300 BC which was discovered in the Alps in 1991. There is, of course,...Read More

Here’s to you, two-stager!

Posted by You Sir on May 21, 2010 in Conversations overheard, Featured, Here's to you Sir!, Once Upon a Time in a Restroom | 2 comments

I would guess that public restrooms are a place of never ending awkwardness because it’s the only place on earth where you partake in your most personal and private events in such close proximity to other people who are also partaking in their own personal and private events.  Everyone has their own habits and intricacies, but I would have to say there are a few universal unspoken rules regarding public restrooms.  The most important of which is no talking.  Seriously, don’t talk.  I’m busy, you’re busy, and we should both be focusing on the tasks at hand.  During the Braves game yesterday I ran into the most heinous of bathroom offenders, cell phone guy.  Let’s call him Jake.  I don’t care how important this phone call is, Jake, but you need to hang up.  It’s just awkward.  Every bathroom has that same echoey, empty, “why did it just get suddenly quiet where you are?” sound to it.  You’re not fooling anyone on the...Read More