Boring beginning - At work there is a report that shows both sales and cost of sales both actual and standard.
It doesn't work for actual costs on customer returns - so I requested that the actual costs be added to the report

So here is the problem - I will ask my fellow ICEers to be the jury.

I told the IT guy - a Red Sox fan - that I was so sure that credits didn't show costs in the report - that I'd wear a RED SOX hat all day - one day if he could show me the cost on the report.

Ladies & Gentlemen of the jury - I was talking about the ACTUAL costs. He showed me there were indeed costs on the report - standard costs. I might not have said actual costs - but he knows - you know I meant ACTUAL.

He claims I LOST - and come Thursday I have to wear that hat with the Scarlet Letter ALL DAY - I ask my peers here - am I right or wrong?

You will would look good in Red.

We need a ruling from Jimbo.

Sheerly on the basis of wanting this to happen, you are wrong.

Whether or not both parties know what was meant, the contract is on what was said. And when you deigned to mock the baseball gods with your hubris, don't be surprised when they smack you - in this case literally - in the back of the head with a baseball cap.

I hate the Yankees, so you're wrong.

At least the bet was only a baseball cap. One time during the final year of Shea Stadium, there were two guys that sat a few rows in front of me that caused commotion.......a Mets fan and a guy wearing a floral summer dress and a Yankee cap with a big sign saying "I lost a bet to a Mets fan". A lot of Mets fans took pictures with them.

Oh, and in one of the oldest memes known to the internet:

Pics, or it didn't happen

You should know better than to mess with reports...

What if I drop dead Thursday? I might end up in the wrong section of the stadium up above.

I promise not to tell Joe Girardi.

Don't worry - they'll know. But they'll stick you in the no-nachos section for being reckless.

This.

+1

I look forward to you posting a pic!

Years ago, when my youngest was in Little League and in our second year in Charlotte, he ended up on the Red Sox. This couldn't happen in Valhalla, NY because there were no Yankees, Red Sox and Mets teams. Needless to say, I made him get dressed in the garage.

I have gotten a stay of execution until Tuesday when my IT "friend" returns to work. I don't know how to post pics here but will email a copy to someone here to post.

I have bad luck of late - this weekend started doing over the basement. Monday evening started removing paneling from the basement - behind the paneling someone wrote on the foundation "Bosox" - now I got to rip out the piece of foundation.

Better days are coming - they gotta!

Could be worse, you could have found a portal to hell in the basement or some kind of entity.

You're looking at this wrong. You clearly stated the bet would be paid on Thursday. If he's not there, he misses out on seeing you in the hat. Too bad so sad.

He is out - he is the one that said it would have to wait until he gets back - he wants to take pictures and he is the owner of that damned hat.

oh I see like a portal to...Fenway?