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Smack talk first thing in the morning, ugh by GU82ND4ever

After a somewhat trying phone conversation, I walked over to the dry cleaner. The guy ahead of me in line sees my ND shirt and proceeds to tell me he’s Catholic but hates Notre Dame for their arrogance. He added he was from the West Coast and roots for Stanford and USC. I said that most of my family went to ND and I got in, but went to Georgetown. He backed off when he noticed that from my expression I wasn’t much inclined for smack just then. When he left I told him well root for Georgia, and he said he couldn’t go for southern schools.

Sigh - I left feeling pathetic about not responding more humorously to him, and I’m not hopeful about tonight, but please let us beat Stanford and Southern Cal.

Finally, it’s a beautiful day here in northern VA, so I won’t let this get me down. Go Irish, beat those Dawgs!