The Worst Daily.

Everyone has witnessed them, some have experienced them. I know I have. I coach youth football and have dealt with some absolutely atrocious calls. Here are some of those:

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I’ll let ESPN take over for me today. This does better than I could ever do anyway for this category.

Take a look at #1, it’s a classic. If you ever watch “Jim Rome is Burning,” you’ll recognize the young interviewer Jim Rome.

Who doesn’t want to go back in time and put a little money on the Cubbies?

Name the movie that’s from and I’ll send you a cookie. In retrospect, these companies would have been great to buy stock for when they were first brought onto the market. These are the companies with the highest market value around.

5.  ExxonMobil ($410)
4.  General Electric ($358)
3.  Microsoft ($275)
2.  Citigroup ($247)
1.  AT&T($229)

The states with the worst unemployment.

5.  District of Columbia - 5.7%
4.  South Carolina - 5.9%
3.  Mississippi - 6.3%
2.  Alaska - 6.4%
1.  Michigan - 7.4%

A flop in basketball is where you deliberately fall on the ground when being touched in an attempt to draw a foul and get the ball for your team.  These are some of the worst:

Apples are great, if I could do anything on them. And that’s coming from someone who DID own one — for about a month. I sold it because I felt like I was retarded and everything was “dumbed” down for me.

5. FTP. Only two programs or something worth anything, and they suck.
4. IRC. Um, mIRC?
3. Word process. The fonts looked all f’ed up on my browser. Everything had to look sooooo good, simple text was distorted.
2. Check e-mail. What’s that piece of crap e-mail software they have? Oh yeah, about 200 people use it. Who cares.
1. Surf the web. About 1% of the sites displayed propertly on Safari or IE for the mac. Everything else was distorted.

While the many tax advantages and second (or fifth) income streams are beneficial, owning rentals can be a hassle.  More specifically, the people (tenants) living inside your rental(s) can and will be a hassle to you at one time or the other.

 5.  No freedom to disappear.  If you’re self-employed, you may love the ability to just get up and go on vacation whenever you decide.  With rentals though, you are a landlord.  If a water pipe bursts in the house, your tenants call you.  If you’re in Maui, how do you fix the problem thousands of miles away?

4.  Late payments.  You buy house.  Tenants move into house.  You get your mortgage paid by rent payments.  If it only worked this well — what happens if your tenant can’t pay rent one month?  How will you react?

3.  Drama.  Loud music, too many cars on the street, etc.  If you pick the wrong tenants, you’re screwed.

2.  Finding a tenant.  If you’re in a market that isn’t so hot, how are you guaranteed to find a tenant that can afford to cover your mortgage payment?  Is the rent you can charge worth your ROI?

1.  Deadbeats.  Everyone who has owned a rental for a prolonged period of time knows all about this.  The absolute trash tenant, paying late EVERY month, having the cops called on them for domestic disturbances, etc.  They seemed so nice when they first moved in, didn’t they?

These are the worst things I found available for purchase through Amazon.  While many associate Amazon with simply books and some technology, they actually sell a wide range of items.  Like:

5. Wolf urine (keeps other animals away from the home)
4. Gay attraction body mist — mist that will help two men fall in love.
3. Liquid ass fart spray — smells like fart.  Great gag.
2. Roswell soil sample — want some dirt in a bag?
1.  Uranium Ore — sample, test purposes only.  Only $19.99.

Since my mom loved my last post so much, I’m going to continue the series.

Worst days to:

5.  Get restaurant service to go:  Valentine’s Day
4.  Get divorced:  Jan 7th.  Every year.  I guess people want to start the New Year from scratch.
3.  Wait by the phone:  Father’s day.  More collect calls on this day than any other day.
2.  Go boating:  4th of July
1.  Travel by air:  August 4th (for 2007).  You might be surprised to know, but holiday travel doesn’t come close to being the most popular travel days.  Odd, but true.

I went out to a Valentine’s Day dinner this last week, and after waiting 3 hours to get a table — I told my wife, “I bet this is the busiest day of the year to go and eat out.”  Turns out, I’m stupid.

5.  Worst day to go out to eat:  Mother’s day.
4.  Worst day to order pizza:  Superbowl sunday.
3.  Worst day to go to the emergency room:  Day after Christmas
2.  Worst day to need a plumber:  Day after Thanksgiving
1.  Worst day to go to a KFC:  Mother’s Day.

Aww, such considerate children.  Taking their momma’s to KFC.