That when you wear a footy jersey out somewhere in public e.g - down the shops, they have automatic right to sledge your team, or just generally be a pest about it?
Case in point -
Took my kids down the shops today, (yay for holidays) both under 5, and had them in each hand, both of them dragging me towards ANOTHER toy outlet.
Out of nowhere I hear an older voice say to me - _"Mate they won't beat the Eagles on Friday"_
I look up and an older bloke gives me this cheeky look, and it takes me a sec to realize I have my jersey on.
I kindly explain to him that his point is invalid _"No they wont. Mate - Tigers by 12\. You heard it here first."_ and I kept walking.
He now kind of starts to follow saying something about Marshall needing to do something, and Manly winning (mind you I have NEVER seen this guy in my life ever) and I kindly remind him that the NZ Captain will have a blinder, then he rambles something about Parramatta getting up this week. Without breaking my stride, now with me dragging my kids towards the toy shops I say _"Now there's a team who's gone"_ and he finally left me alone.
I've had it happen before at the shops, when we played the Melbourne Storm, one idiot came up and said, _"Go the Storm!"_ with his mates around him, and I said, _"We beat the Storm last week, idiot."_ His mates cracked up at the fail of his statement.
Despite the Hilarity of the Storm fail, and this old codger bugging me and my kids, it annoys me that people think they have licence to just say stuff in public like that.
Imagine walking past a construction site, and saying "Mate, you lay bricks as well as I lay your wife!" and see what happened there, betcha the brickie won't just cop that with a smile.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has had people do silly stuff like that, (of course not counting when you actually go to the footy, or to a pub to watch the game, but yknow, just down the shops or something)
Case in point -
Took my kids down the shops today, (yay for holidays) both under 5, and had them in each hand, both of them dragging me towards ANOTHER toy outlet.
Out of nowhere I hear an older voice say to me - _"Mate they won't beat the Eagles on Friday"_
I look up and an older bloke gives me this cheeky look, and it takes me a sec to realize I have my jersey on.
I kindly explain to him that his point is invalid _"No they wont. Mate - Tigers by 12\. You heard it here first."_ and I kept walking.
He now kind of starts to follow saying something about Marshall needing to do something, and Manly winning (mind you I have NEVER seen this guy in my life ever) and I kindly remind him that the NZ Captain will have a blinder, then he rambles something about Parramatta getting up this week. Without breaking my stride, now with me dragging my kids towards the toy shops I say _"Now there's a team who's gone"_ and he finally left me alone.
I've had it happen before at the shops, when we played the Melbourne Storm, one idiot came up and said, _"Go the Storm!"_ with his mates around him, and I said, _"We beat the Storm last week, idiot."_ His mates cracked up at the fail of his statement.
Despite the Hilarity of the Storm fail, and this old codger bugging me and my kids, it annoys me that people think they have licence to just say stuff in public like that.
Imagine walking past a construction site, and saying "Mate, you lay bricks as well as I lay your wife!" and see what happened there, betcha the brickie won't just cop that with a smile.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has had people do silly stuff like that, (of course not counting when you actually go to the footy, or to a pub to watch the game, but yknow, just down the shops or something)
