I remember predicting this

It's coming. First it started with a 4 or 5 guys all wearing the same coloured puffy jacket. Then it was dozens of people walking around with their ridiculously oversized pass card proudly on display. Now it's hundreds of people, almost all with cameras and vacant expressions covering their permanently swivelling faces.

The Winter Olympics.

It's less than a week until the start and I've had enough already. I remember saying that I'd hate it and now I do. It's not just me either, I know of people who are staying indoors as much as possible throughout the entire thing. Let's not Go World. Let's not Go Canada. Let's Go Away.

I know what you're thinking, "Oh but it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, it'll be great to be at the centre of something so exciting! All those athletes from nations all over the world! I'd love to be there!". Well you're wrong, it's not exciting. It's annoying. Imagine if you will your home town being inundated by thousands of tourists. Throw in that their conversation, and by extension the media's, is all about sports you don't care about and never will. Not that they're bad sports, you just don't like them. Add in live music which you don't care about. That is my Olympics.

Obviously this is me being a grumpy bastard again, it's like Christmas all over again. To be honest I'm not as annoyed as I make out, in fact I'm pretty happy these days. But I think of it like a really good meal you'd have in a restaurant. You like drinking the wine, you love eating the food. But you wouldn't want to be in the kitchen making it.