and Beverage people hang out together.
Sometimes a chef would tell me to come to his restaurant that the food was great and I would love it. I would go and sometimes the chef would be right, the food was great and I did love it. And I would go back and go back often and spend my hard earned dollars at his restaurant because the food met my expectations.
Sometimes however, I would go and guess what? The food would suck and I did not love it. So even though the chef told me that the food was GREAT and I would LOVE it, I was able to DECIDE FOR MYSELF that the food WAS NOT so great, I DID NOT love it, it did not meet my expectations and I would not go back to his restaurant and spend my hard earned money.
That is what being a human is kinda all about. We have the ability to decide for ourselves what we do and don't think is great regardless of who else thinks or says something is great or it isn't great. Even my three year old grandchild has this ability. I will tell her "Ailynn Rose try this fruit it is real good" and she will tell me "JoJo I don't like that."
We also have the ability and right to decide what we want to spend our hard earned dollars on. Frankie's daddy liked KFC extra crispy chicken on Sundays. For the better part of 20 years that is what he and Libby ate on Sundays. Frankie and I refused to go to KFC for his daddy. They were always out of the extra crispy chicken on Sunday. Not once in awhile but every single Sunday. One Sunday I went to THREE Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants and all of them were out of extra crispy chicken. Frankie and I told Claude that KFC didn't deserve our hard earned money. I haven't been back to KFC since and that was 3 years ago. They still don't deserve my money. If I want good fried chicken I can go to the Dodge Store where the chicken is good, they always have it ready and I feel appreciated.
So I am not real sure where Brian France gets off thinking that driver's criticism of the sport, the fake debris cautions, the lack of racing or anything else they say influences fans to the point where they don't go to races. Seriously, does he really think so little of race fans? Does he think we are mindless, empty headed idiots with out a thought of our own rattling around in our heads? Of all the ignorant remarks that I have heard come out of his mouth this one takes the cake. As a race fan it insults me. Actually as a human being it insults me.
Now sometimes a chef would ask me what I thought about the food in his restaurant. And I would tell them honestly what I thought. And many times the chef would appreciate the comments good or bad and use the comments to make his product better. Which is what YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN YOUR BUSINESS DEPENDS ON THE CUSTOMERS!
Maybe instead of trying to blame the lack
of fans at the track and the lack of fans
even bothering to turn on their TV's to
watch the race on drivers speaking their
honest opinions, he should put the blame
where it belongs. The racing sucks, the
fake debris cautions suck and the
talking heads on TV telling us how
GREAT the racing is suck. DID I
MENTION THE RACING SUCKS? What
Brian France should be doing is figuring out
a way to make the product better not
fining drivers for voicing their opinions.
And I am not talking about adding more
"drama" with fake debris cautions or "adding" drama to the chamionship hunt by manipulating an already tweaked to death playoff. I am talking about racing getting back to what it is supposed to be, cars going fast and passing each other. Then maybe the fans will turn the TV's back to the racing and start returning to the grandstands.
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