Round One!

It usually happened on one of the first bright Spring days, that someone in high school would challenge someone else to a fight that was to take place off school grounds after school that afternoon. The reasons for the fight were generally things like "he tried to get with my girl" or "he bumped into me in the hallway outside the gym." For whatever reason, the opponents were locked in, and their seconds readied themselves to support their buddy, and everyone buzzed about it all afternoon.

Then, when the melee began, the police would show up within three minutes, having been tipped off by school administration. Then everyone got in their cars and went to Gino's, building up the fight in their minds to where it was sort of a local version of the Battle of Gettysburg.

And every time I drive past the BMW dealer in Towson, I remember the epic battle that took place at that corner of West Rd & Kenilworth Drive one nice afternoon. Not one punch was thrown, just a lot of shoving and taunting and bragging. That spirit lives on today in the 2023 BMW M8 Convertible, which is advertised as being "ADRENALINE AT ITS APEX." 

Talk about adrenaline and testosterone! Look who is supposed to be duking it out...worldwide tough guys Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Elon Musk of X.

These rascals have been bloviating about having a cage match, and it was supposed to be all ready to go, but now Elon says his back hurts and he needs an operation.

 

Zuck took to his new Threads social network and said, “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”

Just like a couple of high school Harrys...they didn't really WANT to fight, they just wanted to want to fight.

Time to move on.