Romp & Roll

What’s with the prices the dry cleaners charge on women’s clothing? I took in my daughter’s romper the other day and for what it cost I could have gotten six men’s shirts done. I know my wife’s dry cleaning costs a fortune compared to mine. That doesn’t seem fair, does it? Is this true everywhere?

My daughter informs me that there are men’s rompers now. See below. So, yeah, we need to find out how much it costs to get a men’s romper cleaned. If it costs less than the women’s, we have an issue. Now, I’m not about to buy a romper, especially if it is dry clean only (although I think I’d look pretty good in one). However, if one of you male readers has a romper, let us know the cost when you get it dry cleaned.

With Father’s Day approaching I’m sure some of you will get rompers. (It’s not too late to ask for one.)

What's with these headless models? Stay tuned...

Printer Problem

Do you have that person in your office who prints EVERY email he or she gets? And then they don’t pick them up on the shared printer for days? That was acceptable maybe 10 or 15 years ago when the older co-workers were still getting used to email, but c’mon. Most of us have adapted and realize we don’t have to print every single email. So yeah, you go to the printer and you pick up your document and you accidentally pick up his or her email regarding their dental appointment or something. They’re printing dozens of pages per day. And where do these pages end up? I honestly don’t know. Is there a giant filing cabinet somewhere that the rest of us don’t know about? This person’s filling about a drawer-full per week. 

It sounds cold, but somebody needs to start a “Do Not Email” list and these folks need to be on it. Remove their email privileges. They’ve proven that they can’t handle the concept, and they’re costing companies around the world valuable paper and ink.  

Oh, and by the way, I’d better not catch anybody printing out the “Do Not Email” List!

High School Instant Replay

The jury still seems to be out on instant replay. Not everyone likes it. Football has it. Baseball has it where they fake this communication with some imaginary off-sight referee in New York or someplace. Yeah, right. It’s all fake. Regardless, it seems like we have it backwards. We have instant replay at the pro level where we have the best referees and umpires in the world. We need it more at the lower levels. We need it at high school games.

As we often attempt to do here at Uncle Tommy, we have a solution to the issue. The only requirement is that it must be a game covered by local radio. Let’s say there is a question in a football game regarding whether a player stepped out of bounds or not. Under our Uncle Tommy plan, the refs would huddle, listen to a slow motion replay of the radio announcer’s call of the play, and then decide if they were going to reverse the call on the field.

OK. Maybe it’s not very high tech, but at least it’s real. And the delay in the game will help the cross-country parents sell more popcorn at the concession stand.

 

Bean Dance

I saw a baseball game last week where the pitcher threw behind the batter. Sure enough, the batter dropped his bat and started toward the pitcher only to get stopped by the catcher at whom he threw a punch. Both benches emptied. Then the bullpens emptied. This is all typical, but the bullpen part is odd. Oddly beautiful, I might add. Both bullpens at this game were located beyond the right field fence. The players from both bullpens ran out onto the field after the pitch and ran side by side as if choreographed for 375 feet before joining the fray near home plate. Now, if they were truly upset with each other, would they really trot 375 feet side by side before any confrontation? But, yeah, this was truly unique.  

It reminded me of one of those reptile egg laying rituals you see on The National Geographic Channel. They seem to know where they’re going but no one knows why…