Run On the Weddings

Caitlin: I'm attending at least 6 weddings next year

un.believ.able.

Me: yeah, i have 6 invites

prob going to half of them

this mad rush

i dont get it

Caitlin: yeah w.t.f.???

it must be pressure from people's parents

Me: no, it's a herding instinct
look at it this way

when we do fantasy drafts for baseball

nobody even thinks of picking a catcher until the 4th or 5th round

but then in the 3rd round, someone picks a catcher

usually because they're insane

but then everyone goes, oh shit, we're going to run out of catchers!

and everybody starts picking catchers

immediately, recklessly, and stupidly

and then we're all stuck with these catchers that we picked too early

and our draft strategy is ruined

and the season becomes a nightmare

and sometime in late july or early august

you can't take it anymore

so you dump your catcher on the waiver wire
and your season is ruined

just because of that irrational run on the catchers

Caitlin: regrets.

Me: indeed

just wait til someone has the first baby

then we'll talk