Finally, after many years or trying and failing, I have finally won an office bracket pool. In mid-March, I put my best foot forward and assembled a bracket, a single bracket, that I thought would take me to the top. And this year, it happened.

Thanks to North Carolina making it to the championship game, and Oklahoma losing, I was able to take my place in the Hall of Champions of Office Bracket Pools (I'm trying to get funding to turn it into a real place but I don't have a lot of investors. Go figure). Even with the game tonight, there is no way I can be defeated.

University of Kentucky Cheerleaders - Texas v Kentucky
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While many co-workers were vanquished early on by picking teams like UK (BLARGH) to win the entire tournament, there was but one opponent who rose up to try to defeat me. Was that person The Rob or maybe Spencer from WBKR who arranged the entire pool? No, that person was very unlikely: Ryan O'Bryan's 11 year old son.

Yes, I was locked in a battle for ages with a middle schooler. And I showed no mercy! Never once did I think about how he could save the $65 on the line for college or perhaps buy his mom a nice gift. No, all I thought about was "I really need that money so I can make my car payment." And now, after all the dust has settled, the young O'Bryan has learned that sometimes life doesn't go like you want it to. He got a taste of the real world, the harsh, unforgiving real world. I've thought about sending a text message to gloat but then I'd have an 11 year old's phone number and that probably doesn't look really good to the police or most of society. However, I hope he reads this and knows that will use that $65 to make my car payment so I can continue to get to work and be another cog in the wheel. You know, harsh, unforgiving, real world stuff.

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