Anjin3515
10-14-2007, 01:35 AM
OK....BAD day. Very bad.
Windy City Classic, CPX park Joilet IL 10/13/07
Make a VERY long story short....well...shorter.....
0) 10 a.m GAME ON
1) 2 hours of trying to get Q-loader to work..haven't even stepped onto the play field
2) get on the field, Q-loader scrapped...had to make due...about an hour of trying to find my wife and the rest of the people I am playing with
3) 3 hours and all I have done is fix things and run around looking for people
4) Finally get to play
5) 5 minutes into playing I get shot out
6) a few bonus balls fly at me as I raise my gun over the bunker I was shooting from as I shout "OUT"
7) I stand up turn around to walk back to base, I start to put barrel bag on my gun
8) 5 maybe 6 balls hit me in the back
9) here is where I totally make a huge mistake....I get angry...not really so much at the bonus balls...but because I have had a bad day, and on top of it I get lit up...so I take it out on the other team :nono:
10) I turn around and start screaming like a mad man, swearing up a storm, yelling about bonus balls
11) I walk up the the guys and swear like a drunk sailor, telling them I am going to get physical with them if they try something like that again
12) I am yelling, screaming,swearing.....in short I am being a total "private part of a man"
13) Some guys from team Ground Control come over to me...and in nice clam way try to calm me down....I swear more, I yell more...I am being a bigger "private part of a man"
14) I just lay into these guys...who are in fact trying to diffuse the situation and then I storm off.
A bad day just got worse.
Now I just feel the guilt rush over me.
I'm not really that kind of guy, thats not how I normally handle a situation like that. Ive had a bad day, nothing is working, everything seems to be going against me and I lost control. And none of that excuses my actions.
A little while later I did manage to track down the guys in the main open area and apologize to them. I explain my day, and tell them how I really feel bad for acting like that, and apologize again.
To the ENORMOUS credit of Ground Control they are all cool about it. The accept the apology.Clearly these guys have class, they are able to rise above the fray while I dug into it....they could have gone off on me....heck they had the right to after how I acted....but no...they choose to take the higher ground and forgive me.
But I want people to learn from my mistake. No matter how bad of a day you may be having....don't take it out on others...even if you get bonus balled. Don't lose control. Don't be a "private part of a man".
Play the game with honor, play it honest, play it with dignity and respect for your opponents....none of which I did.
I was 100% in the wrong.
So with deep guilt, and a sense of disappointment in myself....
I want to publicly apologize to Ground Control for my unacceptable behavior. I did everything possible to come off as a world class jerk.
Ground Control acted with class, and were trying to handle the situation in the right way, and I was just plain wrong. I admire that they were able to play with honor and class....while I clearly didn't.
As a player who tries to play with sportsmanship....I just flat out failed. I need to own up to my failure to play the game with class.
Let my mistake be a lesson to everyone on how NOT to act.
I am ashamed of myself and my actions.
Anjin
Windy City Classic, CPX park Joilet IL 10/13/07
Make a VERY long story short....well...shorter.....
0) 10 a.m GAME ON
1) 2 hours of trying to get Q-loader to work..haven't even stepped onto the play field
2) get on the field, Q-loader scrapped...had to make due...about an hour of trying to find my wife and the rest of the people I am playing with
3) 3 hours and all I have done is fix things and run around looking for people
4) Finally get to play
5) 5 minutes into playing I get shot out
6) a few bonus balls fly at me as I raise my gun over the bunker I was shooting from as I shout "OUT"
7) I stand up turn around to walk back to base, I start to put barrel bag on my gun
8) 5 maybe 6 balls hit me in the back
9) here is where I totally make a huge mistake....I get angry...not really so much at the bonus balls...but because I have had a bad day, and on top of it I get lit up...so I take it out on the other team :nono:
10) I turn around and start screaming like a mad man, swearing up a storm, yelling about bonus balls
11) I walk up the the guys and swear like a drunk sailor, telling them I am going to get physical with them if they try something like that again
12) I am yelling, screaming,swearing.....in short I am being a total "private part of a man"
13) Some guys from team Ground Control come over to me...and in nice clam way try to calm me down....I swear more, I yell more...I am being a bigger "private part of a man"
14) I just lay into these guys...who are in fact trying to diffuse the situation and then I storm off.
A bad day just got worse.
Now I just feel the guilt rush over me.
I'm not really that kind of guy, thats not how I normally handle a situation like that. Ive had a bad day, nothing is working, everything seems to be going against me and I lost control. And none of that excuses my actions.
A little while later I did manage to track down the guys in the main open area and apologize to them. I explain my day, and tell them how I really feel bad for acting like that, and apologize again.
To the ENORMOUS credit of Ground Control they are all cool about it. The accept the apology.Clearly these guys have class, they are able to rise above the fray while I dug into it....they could have gone off on me....heck they had the right to after how I acted....but no...they choose to take the higher ground and forgive me.
But I want people to learn from my mistake. No matter how bad of a day you may be having....don't take it out on others...even if you get bonus balled. Don't lose control. Don't be a "private part of a man".
Play the game with honor, play it honest, play it with dignity and respect for your opponents....none of which I did.
I was 100% in the wrong.
So with deep guilt, and a sense of disappointment in myself....
I want to publicly apologize to Ground Control for my unacceptable behavior. I did everything possible to come off as a world class jerk.
Ground Control acted with class, and were trying to handle the situation in the right way, and I was just plain wrong. I admire that they were able to play with honor and class....while I clearly didn't.
As a player who tries to play with sportsmanship....I just flat out failed. I need to own up to my failure to play the game with class.
Let my mistake be a lesson to everyone on how NOT to act.
I am ashamed of myself and my actions.
Anjin