School Rivalry

There was a science fair at Annie's school earlier this evening. So we packed up the entire clan to watch Annie in action. She was terrific of course. Lots of great projects on display actually. As we are walking through the auditorium chatting with teachers and parents, Brian runs into a man by the name of "Jason".

So he and Jason had the whole "funny running into you/didn't know your kid attended the school/how have you been like I really give a crap" conversation while I try to keep Brandon and Eric from destroying someone's display. Brian was oblivious to this of course. As I was in damage control mode, I happened to catch a bits and pieces of the conversation. Apparently they attended two of the biggest rival Catholic high schools in the county. And they both played football and hated each other.

Apparently harboring no hard feeling, they made small talk. In true primative male fashion, their small talk quickly escalated to a comparison of their respective performances in junior varsity and varsity, memorable games and whose high school had the better record senior year. Then Brian began his statements with "well at least I didn't blah blah blah" to which "Jason" responded with words to the effect of "yeah but at least I didn't blah, blah blah". It wasn't sounding too good for Brian from what I could gather. But pulling himself from the edge of defeat, Brian simply shrugged his shoulders and laughed while saying, "well hey, at least I wasn't an altar boy". Forgive me Pope Benedict, but I thought that was hystertical. Even Jason had to chuckle. And try as he did, he just couldn't recover from that one. Now that is what I call victory with a capital V.