This weekend was so nice. Husband fired up the grill while son and I took a walk. We were playing near the sewer drain (not the most stellar parenting, but Nort likes to throw little rocks in it) when I see a man power walking up the street. A neighbor! An opportunity to make another connection in this community! He was wearing a University of Connecticut shirt (tucked into very high waisted blue sweatpants, so maybe this failure isn't so devastating).
I smiled and said, "Hi! Big win you guys had last night!" I am referring to the NCAA tournament. For those of you who don't know anything about college basketball, it is the tournament to determine the national championship- 64 teams enter, one team leaves. (I mean, they win. The other 63 teams just lose, they aren't killed or anything.)
Unfortunately, I mixed up UConn and UNC. UNC did have a big win, and UConn had a horrible, embarrassing, season-ending loss to Michigan State. Just the kind of thing you want to bring up in order to endear yourself to a strange UConn fan.
It is the equivalent of saying to someone, "Congratulations on your big promotion!" And they respond, "I just got fired you idiot."
He didn't call me an idiot, but he didn't hang around getting to know me either.
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