"Tucker & Mindless"

Well I hate to turn Tucker’s World into a dear diary, but I feel like I want to address my fellow blogger Jenna who writes Jenna & Mindless. I would also like to apologize for the lack of posts for the last week or so, and invite my readers to come back this weekend for what should be a heavy blogging weekend.

Anyway I have some readers who don’t read the crew blog, but so I didn’t want to drag them into the “hot water” that I got into a few weeks ago that put my friend ship with Lima Beanz and Jenna on the rocks. After Lima Beanz posted about his experience in a luxury box for the Flyers with some of the tax money that Jenna received for having a son. I commented the following

“I can't afford to go they tax too much money out of my paycheck to support other people’s children.

Hopefully I will get a better job soon so more money can be hijacked and you can be part of the HOME ICE advantage.

I never really got the expression "It Takes a Village" till recently.”

Okay it may have been in bad taste, but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the insults that I have gotten from Jay over the years on the (gasp) internet. He has called me all kinds of nasty names and it was usually just over differences in politics. I mean come on Lima Beanz has a long track record of saying horrible things to people including his own girlfriend.

It was mostly meant as a joke partly about how many taxes were taken out of my wages, and it was riff of how they decided to spend their money. It was also advice that maybe they should be wiser with their money. You can argue that wasn’t any of my business, but that’s what friends are for to try to make people from doing stuff that will hurt them in the long run right? Wasn’t it Jenna that wanted me to stick upf for her when she thought Jay was pissing baby money away on Vet seats? Jenna now has a part time job, but didn’t at the time. After that I was slammed and cursed out and called an idiot in addition to physical threats.

It was over the top sarcastic like always; no different than Dan spending his cash on 5 computers, yet still making Jessica split the rent. Things got out of hand, and recently Jay offered me an olive branch. That was cool and all, but I really didn’t need it since I would have no problem with hanging out with Jay or Jenna at all. In fact I hung out with Jay a few days after the fact at Sharkey’s. However whenever conversation flowed down the table (we were at opposite ends) Jay would look in the other direction. I addressed the entire table including Jay, but he was unresponsive. Let me just say, that I am sick of talking about something I posted a month ago. So I am never posted about that comment again. Jay and I are past this I thought, why isn’t Jenna?


This past weekend the crew war broke out. Again I wasn’t there, but Lima Beanz supposedly made ethnic slurs about Duke’s girlfriend who is 100 percent Italian. I gave my readers a heads up to read what I knew was going to provide entertainment for the likes of Tom, Ed, Etc..

Anyway summed up the Crew War which can still be read I guess she thought was slanted against her. Well yeah, Duke and Monica clearly said worse things. But what do you expect after you tell Duke he has no balls and should dump his girlfriend on top of calling her a crazy bitch? Not to mention that the title of the article implied that the Crew had officially fallen. Jenna got upset that I said I called her every name in the book. Okay if you want to quibble it was 3, but there is not really a book so what the heck is she talking about?

I didn’t really state a side on the issue, but I most people read into it. I would need to understand Jenna’s side of it more I guess. Maybe I’m missing something but how I pieced together, but its confirmed that Jay used a slur that upset Monica. Period. They had from what I told a half kidding/serious conversation about Cezchs. (Lima Beanz’s background) versus Italians. Monica and Duke left not long after that, perhaps to avoid a public display of emotion. It was clear that Monica was upset by he comments. A reasonable amount of time passed for Jay to say he was sorry. It never happened.

Then Jenna told Monica she was a bitch and the downfall of the crew. Did I miss something? Jay admitted using the term, and if he didn’t realize it would offend her, I guess I can understand. However I don’t think he would make slurs against Steve Hanna’s girlfriend who is aisan. It clearly upset her (he knew this), and Monica at the time hadn’t said anything (that I know of ) nasty in return to either Jay or Jenna. All of the sudden Jenna who heard the incident via a third party comes out swinging calling her a few names. Of course Monica and Jamie’s post were going to be nastier in less than 12 hours Monica was called a couple of slurs, crazy and a bitch. I doubt anyone’s retaliation would involve a mathematical equation to figure out how many nasty words should be included.

Maybe she overacted? How many times did Jenna stomp out of Duke's apartment and slam the door after Jay upset her? Eventually she would return if Jay said sorry or not. Just two different girls dealing with it differently. We all remember the soda remark Jay made about Jenna most guys would have slapped Jay after that! Jenna admits she can't stay mad at Jay, which is a good thing in away. Chalk it up to girls being girls if you really want.

Many years ago the crew in the golden years there was a running joke about Price being Wican. It was fair game however one night I took things too far. I honestly don’t recall what was said. The next day Price came into Shoprite where I worked and told me that the comments had to stop and he was hurt but whatever it was I said. I was a little surprised it being in the Dan K era where all we did was roast each other for hours on end, but I understood. It was never and issue again. Most people don’t even remember it. There was no defending what I said if it hurt Price, so we put it behind us that very night. Now if I went on the internet and called Price a c**sucker or crazy a**hole (have to bleep out FCC regulations) I doubt we would be friends anymore. So maybe with that said I am on Duke’s side who is also my friend (who I knew years earlier) because without that blog post it wouldn’t have gotten to this level. It was like trying to put a flame out with a can of gas. I have remained friends with SO many people on other sides...ex Jay and Dan, Jay and Rob, Jay and Jenna.

Jenna and I have been friends since were in junior high. My record for taking her side is like 81 Jenna 1 Other people. She just posted that our friendship is apparently over. Over because of a hyperhole. I put my neck on the line and did major damage to the relationship with me and someone who is like a brother to me in defense of her. I stood up for Jenna more times than she will EVER know. Jenna might be able to blindly take sides knowing deep down inside she is wrong, but I can’t even it upsets that person. Sorry, I just don’t see why she wouldn’t want to be my friend if I think that you over stepped your bounds. If you want to quibble over how many nasty names it takes to fill a book, that is just a waste of my time. It was just an expression


I will not post anymore about its clearly time to turn the page in the book of my own life.