My little brother Dalton is now in the marching band at Dana Hills High School. His first live performance was last night at the school's opening home game. His performance was fine I guess. I heard them play and I couldn't tell if anyone fucked up so I guess all is good. I was at the top of the bleachers which made it difficult to distinguish him from all the other marching penises. What caught my eye was the magnificent school mascot, the dolphin. The less-than-average craftsmanship of the costume seemed to mock it's own existence. I have never seen a dolphin shit in his own pants let alone wear any at all, but I would imagine it would look a lot like the mascot did. They would have been better off making the dude in the bottom left corner of the picture their school mascot. I mean it would make sense for this beach community school to have some cheesedick with a bro-fro and a long-sleeve vertically-stripped shirt represent their student body. Although I can't tell from this picture, I can almost guarantee that he is wearing pants and sandals.
After halftime was over, I skipped out and headed to the Cheesecake Factory at the Specturm where my friends were having dinner. After what would have qualified as 11% service had our server not been one of Dan's friends, I headed over to D&B where my other friends had already been drinking at. I hate how Dave and Busters charges $1 for 3 credits. If you're going to rape your patrons for over-priced games and over-priced drinks, at least get the fucking kids out of there, whether they have a guardian or not, or else you're just the same as any other arcade or bar but you have fucking brats running around snagging forgotten tickets before I can.
It wasn't long after I got there that Mike and Colter took off to play games. Mike ended up playing one of those grossly worthless games where one attempts to use coins or tokens to push other coins or tokens over the edge in an attmept to win tickets. As a generous estimate I would say he was about 40% successful with his coin-pushing abilities. Let's see, each game he played was 7 credits and he got 7 coins. If a coin fell over the edge he would get 8 tickets. In the end, he ended up cashing in his tickets for the ropes, 2 Nerd Ropes. Each one was 60 tickets. 120 tickets divided by 8 tickets per coin over the edge = 15 coins. With his 40% win percentage I would estimate that he needed to play 37.5 tokens to get those Nerds Ropes. So at a mere $6.25 per rope, Mike got the bargain of his life.
