Did you ever wonder (Men's Synchronized Diving)...

...what the hell is up with men's synchronized diving? Like a lot of folks I have been watching the Olympics, and thoroughly enjoying them I might add. However, this week I was on a business trip with another guy to the DC area. We went to get a bite to eat for dinner and headed back to the hotel for a beer in the hotel bar. We sat down for our beer and, naturally, as it was about 2000, the Olympics were on the television. Good deal, right? Welllll, not so fast, I'm not sure what NBC was thinking, but they were showing men's synchronized diving...

First off, why is this even an Olympic sport? The Olympic Committee is eliminating baseball and softball, but you can still compete in synchronized diving -- a sport where judges decide who wins. Don't even get me started on the whole judging thing. As far as I'm concerned, any event that requires a judge to determine the winner -- like synchronized diving -- is not true sport. But, I digress.

Anyhow, so there we were; the guy I was traveling with, myself, and about eight other dudes -- there was not a woman in the room -- and we were watching guys in Speedos executing "synchronized" dives, and after every dive they would go take a shower -- TOGETHER! I gotta tell you, it was just uncomfortable, and every guy there was thinking: "This is totally gay." Not that there is anything wrong with that, but you be the judge...

Did you ever wonder (Questionable Judgment)...

why people do the below -- what I call questionable judgment -- stuff.
***One caveat before you read further: This is meant to be a reflection piece. If you are guilty of any of the "questionable judgment" infractions don't be angry...just reflect***

Here goes.

1. Put hitch testicles on pick up trucks
The examples to the right speak louder than words. I just don't get it. The state of Florida was considering a law to make these illegal. Now, I don't think we need to that far, but we should exercise some judgment...

2. Wear mohawk motorcycle helmets
Maybe I'm getting old...

3. Place Calvin urinating on anything stickers on your vehicle
Saw one yesterday that said "Ex Wife."

4. Get vanity plates
I can't criticize ALL vanity plates, but this is one of those "totality of circumstances" gray areas. If, when everything is taken into account, you look like a jackass with your vanity plate, then you know you have to look hard at yourself.

5. Put NASCAR stickers on your vehicle
This one will probably raise a lot of ire. But, you can only see so many "In Loving Memory of #3" stickers before it gets a little old and unoriginal. How about if we save the stickers for the vehicles that are getting paid to sport them?

6. Put "Cowboy/Cowgirl Up" or "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" stickers on your vehicle

7. Put "Git-R-Done" anywhere

8. Put "Bad Boyz...Bad Toyz" stickers on your vehicle
This is sooo 1990's

9. Put too much USMC "Flair" on your car
It's okay to be proud of your service (after all, I'm a Marine), but if you have more than one USMC sticker on your car, it's too much. The guy below also has a vanity plate...

10. Put a "Fast and Furious" muffler on your Honda Civic
We've all experienced this. Some guy rolls up next to you at a stoplight in a Honda Civic that once was a nice car...a nice car before the kid driving it -- who has little, if any, mechanical skill -- tried to "customize" (pimp it out) it. In the end the car just looks like a jumbled mess of bondo and extra parts. And worst of all, it sounds like it needs a NEW muffler because the kid replaced the perfectly good muffler with a -- what I call -- "Fast and Furious" (Tokyo Drift) muffler.

11. Wear a Blue Tooth headset any place other than driving in your car
Enough said...

However, I did like the below bumper sticker. I saw it on a car driving in downtown DC.

I'm sure I missed some. Feel free to pile on.