Cowboys and Indians

Ed Note: I’m a bit disapponted with Ms. Serenity23 since she’s my official spell-checker. Humh. I just re-read this post and toward the bottom, it looks like I just gave up on spelling shyt correctly.

One Saturday, with no place else to go, I ended up in a place that I shouldn’t have been in. To make a long story short, there’s an apostrophe ‘S’ restaurant that the county residents have turned into a party spot. I won’t go into the exact location cus I’m so embarassed I ended up there. But lemme tell you. My girl wanted to play the trivia game. We walk in, get our game controllers, and find a spot.

Here we are minding our own business when an argument breaks out. It seems it started before we got there. There was a man sitting at the bar with a Dallas Cowboys jersey on. And as luck would have it, there was another man who was a die-hard Washington Redskins fan. Cowboys and Indians. Get it? They’d already had the which-team-is-better argument. We were just in time for the next round. These two men, two grown ass men starting arguing about something else. It became an all out who-can-piss-their-name-in-the-snow-the-fastest-and-neatest contest. And you know the basis of their argument??

I will give you some clues. I was in Prince George’s County. The wealthiest predominately Black county in the nation. The place where, as the number of Black residents increased, so did education levels and income levels. But keep in mind, we’re in a bar. They both have been drinking and representing rival teams. Any guesses??

They were arguing, loudly over, sure no guesses, who had the best life. Who had the best car. Who had the most platinum cards. Wallets were opened! Whose house was better. Whose credit score was highest. You read right. At one point, they opened their wallets and I believe they compared account opening dates. The younger guy, 25, said that the 40 year old Cowboys fan should have all these things because he’s 40. I tend to agree. Afterall, he is 40. And there shouldn’t even be any comparison to be made between a 25 year old and a 40 year old and accused him of show-boating for the ladies. The 40 year old told the guy he was married and didn’t need to show off. Y’all it got down-right sad. The young guy accused the older guy of using his wife’s credit scores to get his home, car, etc. The old guy told the young guy to come back and talk to him when he had three kids, a wife, and a household. We ended up moving across the room. About 30 minutes later, our boy C joined us. Why did C say the two guys, along with their respective posses, were outside still arguing?!

Men are funny to me. Unlike women, they don’t generally hate each other. But they are still competative like women. They just compete is a public way. A way that’s pretty damned entertaining so long as I know it won’t esculate to violence. While I’m ashamed to admit it, I enjoy the competing men do. I also believe that men enjoy when women compete. Because when there’s competition, the spectators always benefit. If from nothing else, the pure entertainment of it all.

Men will even compete against other unknown men. Like when you’re dating a man, better yet, when that man calls himself dating you, he competes with the other guys he’s sure are also trying to court you. The man will do everything in his power to make it seem like he’s better than the other man. A man (or men) he doesn’t even know exist. And some of the men will even let the woman know he’s competing by saying stupid stuff like, “Has anyone else _____-ed before?” All pretty entertaining.

As much as I enjoy this, there are limits. It gets silly after a while though. I mean, two grown men in a bar arguing over credit scores! Come on fellas! I’m not saying y’all need to not compete. I accept you need to get your compete on! But as you get older, take it up a notch. Learn to do more debating and less arguing. Learn to present logical and fact-based arguments in a debate fashion. If not for yourselves, do it for me.

Uh yea, I know this was a wack entry but I was trying to put something out before 10!! BELOVED!!!