{"id":1368,"date":"2013-05-23T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2013-05-23T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:35:11","slug":"why-i-hate-soccer-tournaments-and-hotel-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate soccer tournaments (and hotel rooms)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building on my insightful comments in yesterday’s blog (Of Soccer Tournaments and Suckiness<\/a>), we continue today with the Top 10 Reasons I Hate Soccer Tournaments (in no particular order):<\/p>\n

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  1. The three-day-old soccer tournament fug that pervades the uniforms, soccer bag and ultimately the car<\/li>\n
  2. It takes FOREVER to organize any group meal (literally HOURS – and that’s only after everyone wanders away horror-movie-style looking for each other and no one ever comes back…and then MORE\u00a0go to find them and THEY never come back….)<\/li>\n
  3. A good portion of the parents begin to annoy you when you realize what complete and utter wackjobs they are.\u00a0 Drinking (yours\/theirs) doesn’t help.<\/li>\n
  4. The ENDLESS amounts of hall-roaming, hot-tubbing, elevator-breaking, that goes on among the team members….and the subsequent security-guard conversations.<\/li>\n
  5. The carpooling craziness that breaks out before you have to leave for every game.<\/li>\n
  6. And speaking of “leaving”…someone is\u00a0always leaving someone “out” or is being left “out” themselves; this is always a fun situation with a bunch of 10 and 11 year-old girls.<\/li>\n
  7. Despite a carload of crap, there’s still crap that got left behind at home which then\u00a0needs to be purchased (again!) at the tournament location.<\/li>\n
  8. No one gets decent sleep and so they play soccer like crap and you think to yourself, “If you were gonna play soccer like crap, you\u00a0could have stayed home and played soccer like crap THERE and we wouldn’t have had to spend\u00a0all this time and money playing soccer like crap HERE.”\u00a0 And in\u00a0addition to the\u00a0minimal sleep making everyone PLAY like crap…they start feeling like crap…and then they\u00a0get sick.<\/li>\n
  9. The forced conversations with the coach.\u00a0\u00a0It’s almost like having to talk to a priest.<\/li>\n
  10. The whole thing seems like it will be fun.\u00a0 A LOT more fun than it actually is.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And while we’re at it, let’s do a quick countdown on the Top 10 Reasons I Hate Hotel Rooms:<\/p>\n

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    1. It’s either too hot or too cold and if you ever DO\u00a0get the temperature right and turn off the blasting fan, you can hear the traffic outside like nobody’s business!<\/li>\n
    2. The little pouch they keep the hairdryer in with the word “Hairdryer” on it.\u00a0 If you just left the hairdryer OUT IN THE OPEN I could see right away that it was a hairdryer and you wouldn’t need a little pouch with the word “Hairdryer” on it that told me so.\u00a0 AND THEN, when I needed it, I wouldn’t have to fiddle with the greasy little bag that’s probably covered in lice.<\/li>\n
    3. All the expos\u00e9s I’ve seen on 60 Minutes about hotel rooms – including the ones on bedbugs and…uh…stains…to be found there.<\/li>\n
    4. The bed is not my own and therefore the pillows\/sheets\/covers freak me out because of all the expos\u00e9s I’ve seen on 60 Minutes about hotel room stains.<\/li>\n
    5. All the luggage has to be up, up, UP.\u00a0 In case there ARE bedbugs they won’t come home with me.\u00a0 Which makes the room resemble some weird, cup-stacking game.\u00a0 Only with luggage.<\/li>\n
    6. The way they slide your bill under the door.\u00a0 If there’s enough room to take a hand and slide it under the door with a piece of paper, could they be sliding a camera of sorts under the door as well to….uhhhh…”observe” me?<\/li>\n
    7. I sleep like crap.\u00a0 All night.\u00a0 Every night I’m there.<\/li>\n
    8. The unacceptable levels of fresh coffee to be found in the room.\u00a0 2 cups?!\u00a0 Come on!\u00a0 I need at least 5!!\u00a0 And if I’m refilling the water reservoir with a used cup for another go-round with the used coffee pod, then what do you think EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING?!?\u00a0 BlaaaaaAAAACH!!!<\/li>\n
    9. If you forget your sanitizing spray, you have to touch everything with a tissue between you and it.\u00a0 Then eventually you run out of tissues and\/or forget to use a tissue and then you get sick anyway!\u00a0 ‘A’ for effort though.<\/li>\n
    10. It seems like it will be fun.\u00a0 But it’s not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Building on my insightful comments in yesterday’s blog (Of Soccer Tournaments and Suckiness), we continue today with the Top 10 Reasons I Hate Soccer Tournaments (in no particular order): The three-day-old soccer tournament fug that pervades the uniforms, soccer bag and ultimately the car It takes FOREVER to organize any group meal (literally HOURS – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}