Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
It’s here. Starting this Friday the Winter Olympics will be upon Vancouver and hopefully it will not turn out to be a glorious gong show.
Normally, I would be completely neutral to the idea of the Olympics and in the correct circumstances I could be enticed to be excited about it. The reality of the situation is I’ve never really been excited about any Olympics (Summer or Winter) and could probably care less. The fact that is in Vancouver an additional “pro” in the list because you get to see things first hand. So I should be excited and in full participation mode correct?
Not really. There are a few things that affect my situation.
- I hate crowds. I hate being inside a crowd and I don’t like being in contact with people in the crowd. I’m a bit of a germaphobe, I know.
- I don’t like getting forced into “fun” things. Forced fun is definitely not my cup of tea, I actually go out of my way to avoid the forced fun type of activities.
- When I’m tired, lacking sleep and/or haven’t kick-started my brain I do not like interacting with people.
So now let me also explain that since moving to Richmond my plan was to drive in but because of the Olympic chaos in downtown Vancouver (road closures and huge crowds) it is safer and more cost effective to take public transit. Public transit causes me to face two out of three issues on a daily basis. This contributes to my general dislike of the whole Olympic situation because it just magnifies the amount of people that I already don’t like dealing with.
Now most people would probably say that I should just accept and support the Olympics since it’s here. To that I say, no. Would you allow a bully to keep bulling a child just because they already have their fist to their face? I think not.
ps. That being said, I’m planning on spending the Olympic time at home watching re-runs of Lie to Me, West Wing and Veronica Mars. I’m not going to go around ruining it for everyone just because I don’t like it.
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