• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 12/17/2023
  • AO: Coconut Horse
  • QIC: Flintstone
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Roscoe, Whoopee, Defib, Stroganoff, Winehouse, Hunchback

Roscoe’s brainchild.  Developed on the frosty streets of Gastonia, NC somewhere between Union Rd and Robinwood Rd the sand got deep one day and there was an impromptu airing of grievances that would’ve made the late Frank Costanza proud (or Whoopee’s Sandy V Channel).  The notes were few, but the good times many from that day, and so when Roscoe brought it up again this year, we knew we needed to try to capture the magic again.  The rain in the forecast was a perfect backdrop, though in all honesty, last week was way worse.  7 grumpy old PAX got out of the fartsack and hit the streets at 0601 as YHC was busy putting on his makeup and you can’t rush perfection.  No runners, just we with bones to pick and 80 minutes to pick em.

The play by play is gone, but grievances included

  •  College Football Playoff
  • Guests at a party who overstay their welcome
  • Our old man bodies waking us up to post even when we fully intended on fartsacking
  • Octogenarians in the Oval Office
  • What shouldn’t be done on government property (and what should be done to those that do)
  • Menu anxiety
  • Smokers (people, not charcoal)
  • People who say “I shouldn’t be doing this” while eating their 3rd cupcake
  • The weather
  • The fact that this was a 5 mile ruck and not a 3 miler
  • Faulty sensors in turn lanes that don’t actually trip the traffic light
  • This movie starring Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon where the world is ending but it’s cool because we can watch Friends reruns
  • and many more that I know I’m missing

Light-hearted and good-natured.  We manufactured some superficial anger in the spirit of the holiday, but the grievances didn’t seem to be as deep-seated this year.

2 joined in dry as a bone for QSource and a talk about Compassion.  We talked Gary Sinise, but also that things are complicated.  It’s not as simple as to give a homeless guy $10 or not.  It’s almost like we have to take the time to listen to find out.  But can we be THE GUY for everyone with a problem?  But we should definitely be THE GUY for our Concentrica.  It was one of those QSources where the further we went into it, the more I realized I didn’t know, or at least, don’t do well.  F3, and specifically QSource, helps see those blind spots.  If you don’t have a group, in F3 or otherwise, that’ll hold you accountable for growing into the man the your family and your community need you to be, I challenge you to reach out to any PAX and they’ll help you get connected.

Happy Festivus

Yabba Dabba Doo