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Soccer Moms are Amerika Incarnate

BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Every morning at 8:00 I run on a track at a community park near my house. It's one of those tracks with a soccer field in the grassy area in the middle.

I showed up this morning, and was about 1/4th of the way through my run, when a gaggle of kids in soccer uniforms and parents with lawnchairs walks in. I figure it's a scheduled youth soccer game of some sort. That's cool by me. I'm just using the track.

But to my astonishment, the parents are unsatisfied with standing or sitting on the sidelines. They set up lawn chairs and blankets all over the track. One parent even cuts across the parking lot and pulls his friggin' car up on the track so it totally blocks it.

Keep in mind, I'm still huffing and puffing around the track in my jogging suit, making an extra-special effort to show them I'm not done yet. They pay no notice whatsoever.

I have no choice but to stop what I'm doing and go ask them if they wouldnt mind giving me a lane to run in. I'm then cheerfully informed by a middle-aged woman with a Schenectady County Youth Soccer League shirt (who I can only assume was the coach or coordinator or something), that "I'm not welcome on their facility" and I had better leave "Before the parents get angry I'm disrupting their children's game and the police are called".

So now I guess I've got to run either at night or in the middle of the day. Or I can always run on the highway. Those 18-wheelers going by at 65 mph tend to disrupt by balance a bit though...
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Go there, keep doing what you are doing, and have them call the police. It is YOUR park too! Let the cop figure it out.

    Merc



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  • SP TigerSP Tiger Member Posts: 872 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would keep going there as usual. Ask the old bag to show proof of ownership of the facility if you see her again.

    Better to have and not need, than need and not have.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullz, if it's a public park, it's a public park and you have as much right to be there as the soccer people. I dare say they, and especially the clown with the car, have no right to block access to the portions of the facility not dedicated to soccer. I'm such a nice, accomodating guy, I would have started running laps between the goals right up the middle of the field if they blocked my space.
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  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    Bullz, get all your friends to join you on your morning jogs. hell...next time the clown that drove up to the track does that...call the cops yourself.
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    I dont know whether they practice every day, although from the age of the kids I wouldnt think so.

    I'll go back tomorrow at normal time and try again. If they show up and hassle me I'll just drive my car up and enjoy some AC/DC with all the doors open. I got a really nice sound system. By nice I mean it'll shake the fillings out of your teeth at 100 yards.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullz,
    Wear a camo sweat suit and a black bandanna. A little C-4 clears things real well too.

    "Join the Baby Fur Seal Club and take a swing a life."
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullzeye--Remember Murphy's Law as it applies to Army applicants. When it comes to interaction with law enforcement, anything that can go wrong will go wrong and I have seen it ruin many many dreams. I'm sure you have every right to be there but it is worth your while to avoid deficating contests with those "soccer moms" just so that it does not turn into a contest moderated by the local boys in blue. You may be in the right but Murphy has a way of kicking Army applicants in the rear end at the most inoppurtune moments.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Next time you should call the police yourself, and tell them that they ran you off.

    And if it were me, I'd probably would have beat the bajesus out of her.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

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  • tccoxtccox Member Posts: 7,379 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullz, why don't you show a little initive, call the mayor, or whome ever, get the facts and let us know what the outcome is. How the heck are we to know what the facts are. Maybe soccer mom is right.
    Maybe your buddy (whatever his name is) who gives you all the good advise, will step in and give you some pointers too. Tom

    Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who dont.
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