The Contraband

Lately, the people and things residing in the Chuck have engaged in some strange happenings. Personally, I blame the upcoming holiday season for blessing our local scene with dabs of the crazy. But for whatever reason, the bizarre has taken over the city. It is with this in mind that I devote this column space to "Bradford's First Annual WTF Awards."

Coming in as second runner-up this year are the morons running red lights right and left. Seriously, WTF? This is Lake Charles. People, there is nothing important enough around here to rush to that justifies flying through a light that has been telling you to stop for the last five seconds. Despite the fact that the only places you have to go to are home or Wal-Mart, you will be damned if a light is going to make you be patient for thirty more seconds. Please, make everyone's day a little safer and just enjoy more of Lake Charles' fine radio stations while you wait.

The first runners-up this year are the ID Nazis at the casino. I'm 22 years old, and I got carded four times at the casino the other night. To get in, my ID got checked, scanned and handed off to someone else to check. Once I was given clearance to enter the top-secret hidden palace, I went to the bar and got carded again. Seriously, WTF? How do you think I got in? Did I swim up under the boat like James Bond? When I sat at the blackjack table, I got carded again. I understand that I look at least six years younger than I am because the movie theater workers card me for an R-rated movie, but really, WTF?

And now for the winner of "Bradford's First Annual WTF Award." It is something you all know and have probably said by now. Really, WTF is up with the weather? In the morning I am freezing walking to class, and by the time I have to walk back to the car that I was forced to park in BFE, I am stripping all of my clothes off trying not to suffer heat stroke. It is October, weather - get cold and stay cold. How am I supposed to figure out whether to put on a McNeese t-shirt or McNeese hoodie if you will not make up your mind about what the temperature is going to be? I am not asking for snow (even though it may happen since Notre Dame won a game this season), but I am asking for a little consistency.

I find it fitting to include an honorable mention. This goes to the guy who tries to pass internet-slang acronyms off as legitimate terms found in the vernacular and incorporate them into a newspaper article, desperately attempting to make anyone laugh. Seriously, dude, WTF?

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