Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Arrrgh! (not like a pirate)

So I'm a little torn right now. Here's the story.

While waiting in line for our hot dogs at the game Monday night, a guy walked up and started complaining that there weren't any more onions. Saying, "If you guys are out of onions I want my money back because there's absolutely no way I'm eating a hot dog without onions." Ok, fine, he likes onions, but he already irked me with his rude attitude to the workers (I firmly believe every single person should work in food service at some point in their lives). So after that, Jen and I were across the way putting the good stuff on our dogs, and he was right there next to us. During the time we were there, I heard him make three phone calls to three different voicemails of, I assume to be, Angels employees. All of his messages were extremely rude and had the attitude that he should be treated like a king and that not having onions was the worst thing they could possibly do to him. Here's how I'm torn, on the last message, he left his cell phone number. I entered it into my phone and I now have it. I haven't called him yet, but I want to, and say a number of things:

-That I work for the Angels and that we have some special seats for him, just talk to so and so at the next game, etc.

-Just that the season ticket holders who sit next to him say his breath stinks too much and that they complained that he didn't need any more onions.

-call a morning radio show and have them call him

-pay one of those search engines to find the address and mail him an onion a day for a week
(i'm not actually doing that one, but it sounds like fun right?)

The worst part is that he was in the same section as us, and he acts like a normally nice guy to the people around him, and I assume is pretty well known amongst the season ticket holders in that area because of his signature thing he does at each game.

I suppose I could also just let it go, but I just hate for people to be treated like lesser beings by someone who thinks they deserve whatever they want whenever they want.

Any ideas?

3 comments:

chronicles of brittian said...

Matt,

I like wher your heads is at on this dude. I like the "give his name and # to a radio talk show one"...shoot!! there all great ideas !
Fortunately for you , you've red james 3 a few times and had to think about the consequence of your tongue.... does it say anything about letting other tongues do the work?? (radio jockey) Either way LOL!! this sounds like an awesome opportunity to do something .........something?

matt said...

Yeah, something. If he was mean all the time, that would make it easier to take, but with him being nice to other people but totally rude to some, that drives me nuts.

Anonymous said...

F that DB. F him in the A. Get his address I'll mail him all the rotten onions from work. I'll address it from the king of Baseball Snacks. Karma needs helps sometimes it doesn't always work on its own. I don't know who red james the third is but he'd probably like a good joke on a DB. Like when Prez G. Bush said he hates broccoli and people started mailing it to him. Vegetable based humor rules!