School Spirit

Dear Larry,

You know that I've sort of followed Steve Spurrier's career for the past 15 years or so. Well, maybe you didn't. In fact, you might not even know who that is but I needed to preface the content with this bit of information so that you would at least understand the context of this, my latest offering. He's a football coach and in my opinion, the greatest football coach that ever lived. He was at Florida for awhile and then he took a job with the Redskins and now he's back in the college ranks, this time with the South Carolina Gamecocks, which brings me to the point. I have recently discovered a coworker who shares my interest in this team; her because she is an alum and me obviously because I follow the coach. Not surprisingly, I just bumped into her out in the hallway at work and she looks at me and says, "Go, Cocks". I know that this won't be the last time that I hear it from her and I want to join in her enthusiasm but I can't with a straight face participate in her school chant for a couple of reasons. #1. The fact that an attractive woman has approached me only to say "Go Cocks" catches me off-guard every time that it happens. At that point, I'm stunned. I don't know what to say. My first instinct is to say yes and hope that this time, she's not talking about the football team but me instead. #2 If I say it, then it feels just a little too gay, I suppose. Not that there's anything wrong with that, right? I mean, it's not like I am opposed to cock or that I am cock-averse. I just prefer mine over any and all others, that's all. I don't think that makes me anti-gay by any means. And today's incident was the second time that it happened. I don't know what to do. I suppose that when I run in to her in the hallway and she says "Go Cocks", I'll just nod my head in support and continue about my business.

It is sort of liberating though, to be able to talk about cocks in the workplace without it being dirty or inappropriate. I think that were I comfortable with the whole thing, me and this woman could sit around and talk about cocks all day. But I think that in the end, I would feel a little icky...and maybe slightly aroused. And I can't have that at work.

That's all for now.

Paul