As if enough non-related ranting had already happened...

 If you've been paying attention to the world of sports this week, you'll notice that Tiger Woods has finally made headlines for something other than his golfing exploits. The dependably clean cut star found himself in a car crash, and he'd rather not talk about it. Police have tried to get a warrant to further investigate the matter, believing the circumstances to be a little more than an "oops" on Tiger Woods' part. As of posting this, police have cited him for careless driving and nothing more.

 Since news of the crash came to the media's attention, Tiger has maintained that the matter is private and that he will remain silent to everyone including the police. However, this story has since exploded to epic scandal proportions. Was he on drugs? Was he having an affair? Was there domestic abuse? The facts don't match up the way I like them, something is afoot!

 Well, tough. 

 I'm not a Tiger follower because I'm not a golf guy, so maybe I don't understand where the obsession is coming from to turn him into an evil character overnight. Why everyone is demanding information on this is beyond me, because no one has the right or reason to do so. Even looking at the reports, I don't see why anyone thinks something has to be going on in the background. He got into a car accident and some things happened that seemed weird, but in the end, it was a car accident. You are specifically told by anyone who knows anything about car accidents to divulge only the facts that are necessary when describing the incident. You don't say what you think, you don't say what you feel, and you certainly don't tell people anything more than they need to know. 

 Seeing as how I have heard this story told second hand a few times now, it sounds like Tiger was mad at something, so he got in his car and tried to cool off, only he was flustered enough to make a mistake and hit something that wrecked him. Have you ever been flustered behind the wheel of a car? If you get pulled over and questioned by your insurance and the cops, do you really think it's a good idea to describe in detail that you were pissed off at something, what that something was, and that you were guilty of something other than a  second of bad driving? Of course you don't. You're nuts if you do. 

 What happened with Tiger happens with people you know all the time, and we tell those people to do the exact same thing Tiger is doing now. Shut up, only tell them the facts, pay the fine, and be happy it wasn't more serious than it was. 

 If you're still not convinced, go find a guy at your workplace that just got into a car accident. Proceed to tell him that you know the truth, and that he was really just hopped up on painkillers before he got in the car to go sleep with a downtown hooker. See where that gets you.

 When your spouse won't stop asking where you got the black eye from, I'm pretty sure it'll just be a misunderstanding that you don't want to talk about.

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