I know this is probably bland and boring compared to the 'exploits' of some of my fellow btp'ers but i needed to write this.
ok, so i wake up at 2:00 today and have a pretty bad hangover. I get some mcdonalds and sit down to read the internetz and wait for my headache to pass. Then my dad calls me up at like 5 and was like 'when do u wanna meet at the Dome?'. wtf. i have no idea what hes talking about. Then i realize oh shit thats right im goin to the Falcons game with him. OH SHIT THATS TONIGHT? fock. so this is at like 5 when i get the call and he wants me to be there at 7 so we can eat before the game.
So my plan was to drive to the College Park marta station and take that to the Dome. I left at 5:50 which would put me at the Dome at just about 7. I get to the station and i see that they replaced all the turn styles or whatever with this electronic shit. Im confused as fuck because i rode marta hundreds of times while i went to school..they must of changed the system within the past 6 months or so. I look for the token atm thing and i see they upgraded those too. It was all touch screen shit now. So now im like wtf i have no idea what im doing and i try and watch a couple people do it before me while i stand in line. Because those things were apparantly made for retards like myself i got through that fine. But then i had to go through the new gates. So i walk over, and am like wtf. there are no slots for me to put my card thingie in. I stand there lookin at these things like xaston looks at tits..just dumbfounded. Then i watch a guy go through and all he does is wave the card over a sensor that i didnt realize was there. And the gates open. WTF IM A RETARD. ok past that obstacle now nothing can stop me.
So im waiting for the train with like 100 other people and am like 'great im gonna be on time.' I wait 5 mins...10 mins...20 mins...30...there should be a train every 12 minutes. and at this point there are seriously 500-700 people waiting for this godforsaken piece of shit. After 40 MINUTES this guy told us that something happened to a train on our track between this station and the next station..and that we should drive to the station after the next one or something. WTF. Ive been pissed for like the last 30 mins at this point and say fuck it im drivin to the Dome. fuck marta u worthless cumdumpster.
The falcons stadium is in the middle of downtown ATL by the CNN center, Phillips Arena and a lot of other shit. I had never actually driven to a game before tonight...but i didnt think it would be terrible. IT WAS FUCKING INSANE. It took me an hour to get a parking spot. And then after a 20 minute hike through what seemed to be a fucking maze of streets and bridges and shit i finally got to the Dome. By this time i had called my dad obv and told him to just drop the tickets at ...that place, fuck i forgot what its called. but yea, i had to pick up my tickets. I ended up having to walk to the other side of the stadium for them. which sucked. By the time i sat down to watch the game i had already missed the whole first quarter. a;lsdjfa;sldjf;alskldfsakdjfsl
DURING THE GAME
My dad is a big cowboys fan, and im a falcons fan, and we were mixed in with about 50/50 falcon cowboy fans. It was crazy/awesome. BUT these pricks that were in front of me and this cute girl next to me KEPT STANDING UP FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. like only them, noone else. it was very annoying. There was also this dude whos a cowboys fan in front and to the left of me (imagine Eric Molina but with muscles) and i kid u not, everytime the cowboys did something good he would yell and shit but then he would flex and kiss his biceps. HHAHAHAHAHHAHA. And i swear this is true- sitting beside him was a ~40 yearold woman..kinda cute actually. She had a couple drinks and in the 3rd quarter after the kid did his bicep thing she seriously asked the kid if he was on steriods...im trying to act like im not paying attention but that shit almost made me laugh out loud. The dude basically said no...then they started wispering or something and my attention turned to the game. I look back AND HES FUCKING CRYING> WTF. Then they both stand up and hug..and she said 'im so sorry' like half a dozen times. I was so fucking weirded out by this i had to get up and get something to drink.
The rest of the game sucked. My dad had to leave midway through the 4th quarter...But me and the girl beside me and her boyfriend
had a good time. The girl really seemed to dig me....she had to be there with her boyfriend....
AFTER THE GAME
After the game i leave the stadium and promptly get lost. like no idea where the fuck i am lost...or where my car is lost. After 30 minutes of walking around in circles looking for the right parking lot, im about ready to say fuck it and get ahold of a friend who can come and pick me up. But then while i was waiting for a light to change so i could cross a street i hear 'yo georgia' behind me. (im wearing a UGA hat). "does that stand for georgia or grandma?" lol..it was this black dude who looked like he lived on the streets. I started talking with him and he was like wtf are u doing here? hahaha..i told him im actually looking for my car or something like that. He starts asking me questions like 'what was the first thing u saw when u left the parking lot?' To which i truly had no idea. I just wasnt paying attention like i should of been.
He then asked me if i had a ticket stub or something from the parking lot. I DID! But it only told him that it was an AAA lot. To which there are many, many around the Dome.
Im like well fuck u wanna walk around with me and try to find my car? He said sure lol. This guy was just so nice. i mean, just a great guy. In the course of our walks i find out his name's Ricky and hes 54 years old. Hes been living in ATL for ~4 years. At one point he asked me what i thought of him when i first saw him/talked to him..i said, 'honestly i thought u were a prototypical bum'. lol...he replied that he isnt a bum, he stays at the YMCA's around town..there's a difference. He then asked me if i was a christian, i was like wellllll i guess i am. He was like good etc. Then at some point he said that he had a wife and a son but they were both killed in a car accident. He said somebody swerved into their lane and killed them both instantly. uh...damn...wtf do i say to that? I shook my head and said damn or something.
We walked around for nearly 2 hours. Looking at all the AAA parking lots. I felt so freaking bad...he was trying so bad but i just couldnt give him any more information to help. I didnt remember like anything about my walk from the parking lot to the Dome. Im fucking retarded. But yea, just imagine a scruffy ~5'7" black dude and a skinny 6'2'' white guy with glasses and a backwards UGA hat walking the streets of downtown ATL at 2 in the morning....lol. awesome. Anyway, he ended up leading me in the right direction, then i recognized a CVS and found my way to the parking lot from there. Then he asked me for enough money so he can stay at this YMCA for a month or something..like $35..i was gonna give him whatever cash i had with me anyways so i gave him the $50 i had on me. Then i gave him a ride to the YMCA and dropped him off. And yea i know giving a 'bum' stranger a ride in my car isnt the smartest move but fuck ya'll u had to be there.
I think thats it.
