So I'm picking my daughter up from daycare...

[bphillips4gg]

And as I'm walking out, I hear someone say "Your shirt is ugly". I turn around and see a young girl, about 9 or 10 years old, wearing an OSU shirt and shorts. BTW, I was wearing one of my "Michigan Football" shirts.

Now I pause for a minute, caught a bit off-guard, and trying to decide between dropping an f-bomb or two or keeping my cool in a room for of impressionable youths.

After a few seconds, I try to take the high road, and simply tell the young lady that mine is a beautiful shirt, and that I, in-turn, think hers is ugly, to which she disagrees.

I stop, just before walking out the door, and say to the director of the day care (loud enough for the soon-to-be obnoxious troll to hear) "Emily might not be coming back after this week. Not with you allowing children to wear that filth around this place." Then turned and walked out.

So, did I handle the situation amicably, or should I have just ignored the child? Should I have told her that her shirt reminded me of the bumper sticker in the bottom of my toilet bowl? Should I have told her that I am pained that she, like many other poor children in this state, are falling victim to their parents' apparent amnesia (in regards to this rivalry) that started around the turn of the millenium?

And yes, I really have an OSU decal positioned squarely where my stream of piss hits the bottom of the toilet bowl.

 

[Guest]

"Kids say the stupidest things ..."

- Homer Simpson

 

[hungry]

You should have said something like, "Cool Story!!"

 

[dannydiggler]

Take that bitch to the toilet and give her a swirley.

 

[Guest]

Or you could have gone with the classic Winston Churchill-inspired line, "Well that may be true but you're an idiot ....and I can always change my shirt."

 

[b311j]

Never feed the trolls, regardless of age. I wonder if Eddie/HSM/Dinky was her dad...

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Never feed the trolls, regardless of age. I wonder if Eddie/HSM/Dinky was her dad...

That would imply that some girl/guy would want to have sex with him/her. Based on the awesome video we saw of HSM I'm guessing that's highly unlikely.

 

[Michchamp]

if the situation was reversed... with the little girl in the Michigan shirt and some ohio dad/fan, you just KNOW there would be some F-Bombs dropped.

 

[jever4321]

They do start the brainwashing early in ohio*. I think I would have just smiled and said "thank you." It's really the parent's fault, not hers.

 

[beez]

I woulda punched her...you're soft.

 

[wolverine304]

I would have just laughed. Its a little girl. Just shows how big the rival is.

Once peyton learns to talk ill have him telling all ohio, wvu. And steeler fans that they suck lol

 

[Guest]

My wife has 'brainwashed' our son about fast food and Taco Bell in particular and how incredibly unhealthy it is ....when we drive by Taco Bells he will usually say, "eeew, Taco Bell - yuck!" or something like that.

About a month ago while watching some CFB show and a segment on Ohio I asked what he thought about the buckeyes ...

"Buckeyes? yuck ..... Dad, buckeyes eat Taco Bell!!"

 

[smitdog67]

if the situation was reversed... with the little girl in the Michigan shirt and some ohio dad/fan, you just KNOW there would be some F-Bombs dropped.

The OSU dad would have gotten so worked up he would have dropped his keystone light and spit his skoal at the poor child, he probably wouldn't even have enough money in his tight acid-washed cutoff jeans to pay for the damages either.

 

[erg57]

her dad should have pulled out

 

[cmrlily]

I woulda punched her...you're soft.

Yes, something like that. Or "not as ugly as you," or perhaps a Mr. Garrison "you go to hell! you go to hell and you die!"

In all honesty, I probably would've chuckled dismissively.

 

[architect]

her dad should have pulled out

As with all OSU fans, their mothers should have swallowed.