Friday, April 27, 2007

Where's My Mug?

I went to a restaurant tonight that had an impressive display of "career mugs" on sale. Essentially, they were coffee mugs that had a clever statement about a certain career printed on each one. For instance, the fisherman one said, "Old fishermen don't die, they just smell that way." Ew. Anyways, I perused through the career mugs to find that there was no such mug for gymnastics coaches, or any coach for that matter. However, flight attendants, teachers, golfers, plumbers, and even armchair sports fanatics all had clever little mugs.

I found myself a bit bitter, wondering why they'd left this passionate group of people out of the career mug display. I also wondered what the one titled "Coach" might say...here are some things I came up with:
  • "Coaches aren't dreamers...they don't have time for sleep"
  • "Wait a minute--you're telling me I get paid for this?"
  • "This vein popping out in my forehead isn't just for decoration"
  • "Coaches: Life's little reminder that your best is rarely good enough"
  • "I'd scream at you, but I lost my voice yesterday when I was screaming at you"
  • "Mediocrity is not in my vocabulary. I'm surprised I even know how to spell it since it doesn't exist."

So...what would your mug say?

1 comment:

Skelton's Sunshines said...

So today one of my kiddos said he wanted to be a coach when he grows up....just thought you might feel special!