A “oops” moment

A day after the dreadful Texas-UCLA Basketball game, I was a bit sad about how the UCLA team is doing, but they’re going to mature as the year goes on I think. Anyway, I’m at work making some sinful cinnamon pretzels for a customer. As I’m adding the piles of sugar onto the pretzel, I was talking about the Lakers with my coworker and how they’ve been winning so much. I jokingly blurt out, “Do you know who’s not winning right now?” I was hoping that my coworker would blurt out “UCLA” and laugh with me, but as I asked the question, thoughts suddenly came up

The guy behind me who I’m making the pretzel for is really tall and has UCLA sports gear on. Crap, he’s over 6’6”, he’s a basketball player. Oh crap, I hope my coworker doesn’t answer the question.

Fortunately, my coworker was smart enough to realize this and said “The Clippers!” (who are like 3-15?). So I serve Drew Gordon his pretzel and he leaves.

I proceed to thank my friend for being smart. We laugh about the situation and continue on with our lives.