Friday, October 10 - Pet Peeve

Ever played paintball? If you answered no to that question, then I am truthfully sorry that you have not begun experiencing life to its fullest extent. But if you have, you have ran into everyone's least favorite paintballer, the wiper. There is a special place in Hell for people who wipe hits when playing paintball, right next to people who talk during movies. This is by biggest pet peeve, because being an avid paintballer and advocate for the sport, wipers kill the game for new players as well as aggravate me to no bloody end. Its even worse when you hit a player, you see them cheat and wipe, and they shoot you out of the game. This will send any paintball field "regular" into a rage. First you are tempted to stoop to their level, but then you realize that would mean becoming the very thing you hate most in this world. So like a respectable sportsman, you play by the rules and call yourself out. Then the equivalent of the Satan of paintball starts trash talking about how he demolished you in the last round and how you didn't have a chance against his skill level and super expensive gun. The rage gets to be too much. How do you solve the problem? Well dear reader, I will tell you. In the next game you run up to his bunker and blast him point blank with several paintballs in the back of the head. This technique is called bunkering in the tournament paintball world, and it is especially useful to take care of cocky cheating punks. This is my numero uno pet peeve. The moral of this story: Don't be a tool.