dimes

Everything is relative. Everything.
When someone says you’re going too fast? Well, what exactly is too fast? 75 MPH is fast for some people, but not for other people.

Is that restaurant expensive? Well, it depends what “expensive” is.

Are you a picky eater? Well, it depends.

Is tracy a big city? Well, it depends.

Scott and I were talking about this the other day, but it always makes me think. A good example is a slam-dunk contest. I was watching some high school dunk contest on ESPN, tyreke and Brandon Jennings were giving 10s like it was nothing. Basically, all of the judges were stupid. In the first round, there should be no scores of 10, or even 9. But why? Ok, so this is an exaggeration, but let’s say Blake Griffin jumps from half court and dunks the ball, he should be given an 8, or even a 7. That doesn’t seem right? But yeah, think about it, what if he dunks from ¾-court in the next round, the score SHOULD be higher than the half court dunk. Therefore, you can’t give a 10 because then you can’t correctly reward a better dunk. I probably didn’t explain very well. But let’s just say if Blake dunks from half court, I would completely understand if a judge gave him a 6. He would just have to compare the remaining dunks to this scale. (assuming the scale were 1-10)

Same with rating girls, everyone asks what would you rate that girl? Well, you can’t really answer that, a 7 in my eyes is probably not going to be a 7 (solid seven?) in your eyes. In my eyes, I think Minka Kelly is the best looking girl on the planet right now. But I can’t really give her a 10, what if I see a Minka Kelly look-a-like with slightly bigger eyes? I would have to give her a higher score, but I can’t because I gave a 10 to Minka. So if I ask someone what would you rate Minka Kelly, and he says 7. He is either extremely smart or extremely stupid. If you wanted to be politically correct (wtf), you would say “what would you rate that girl if Girl X is a 7?” Geez, talk about over-analyzing. I know Jill is probably thinking to herself ‘just shut up grant, no one cares.’

In conclusion, what would I rate Minka Kelly? She’s a 10, hands down.