Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today.
Mike Boon is evil. I would say he is pure evil, but I know his mother and she is a quite a lovely person. I have only spent a handful of hours with him in my lifetime and yet, he has still managed to make me cry on more than one occasion. Need I say more?
Vanessa
For those who don't know who Vanessa is, she's dating my little brother Steve. It's true, I've made her cry on two occasions, and I remember the details well.
- The first time I made Vanessa cry started innocently enough. We were tossing around trivia questions and I asked her if she knew who the Vice President of the United States was. Vanessa is a university educated young woman, and I thought the question was easy enough. I considered it a soft warm-up question. Vanessa didn't have a clue the answer was Dick Cheney. It's possible Steve and I joked about her ignorance for a minute or two, but that's the extent of it. Unbeknownst to me, Vanessa was balling her eyes out on the bed in the next room following my vicious assault on her intelligence.
- The second time I made Vanessa cry was this past spring during the NHL playoffs. I was over watching the Leafs-Flyers game with my brother and some friends, when things started to go wrong. It was April 11th and the Leafs were getting creamed. It was ugly. I take my Leaf playoff hockey very seriously, and watching this atrocity was too much to handle. I snapped and began screaming at her for no particular reason. I had a lot of pent up rage and she was a convenient target. My words this infamous evening caused Vanessa to once more ball her eyes out.
Do these two incidents make me evil? Hardly. I regret the second instance in particular, because I took out my feelings of rage on a fairly innocent victim. I don't go around trying to make young girls cry. I don't want to be regarded as "evil" by those in my little circle. I'd suggest I'm a misunderstood chap who is so chalk full of passion, some are accidentally caught up in the intense emotion I constantly emit. I'm sorry some don't see me for the truly sweet person I am. Vanessa, I apologize.
