There's an episode of Spongebob where Squidward gets sick of where he lives and goes to a wonderful city made just for his kind. There's a part in that episode where Squidward accidentally bumps into another squid and they insult each other for a minute. Then the other one walks away, and Squidward (with a huge smile on his face) says "This place is even better than I expected!"
Yesterday, as I was walking around downtown Boston with my bros, after the world cup final ended, and heard a loud honking. We looked down the street and saw some guy with upwards of 4 Spanish flags waving from his sports car, pumping his fist and holding his horn down while he drove. This of course was the "Avengers, Assemble!!" call for pissed off Bostonians, and by the time he passed us there was a veritable wall of middle fingers, a wave of expletives, and many yelled "we don't care about soccer" comments.
It's good to be home.
Even when we were honked at profusely for crossing the street while the light was red, I had a huge smile on my face. I feel bad that rudeness and dislike of soccer is the first thing I've written about during my very enjoyable and lucky trip to America, but I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see at least the end of the world cup from my homeland's perspective and not from the rest of the soccer-loving world. The fact that for every one guy sitting in one of the city's countless pubs watching the game there were four outside walking past indifferently is a huge deal.
At the end of the episode, Squidward gets sick of his new home, goes insane, and rides a leafblower into the sky. I doubt that after 15 years and two summers that will happen.
But I do love leafblowers.
-Will
"He says that illegal Mexican immigrants are taking jobs that Americans don't want anyway. I didn't know you could get paid to watch soccer."
