My Relationship To The “I Hate Farm Animals”
The “I hate farm animals” group lived just across the short hallway in the next set of rooms which were shared by McKinney/Hammortree/Kaycey/Noke. In this bedroom section you had 3 people from the “I hate farm animals” clique sharing a bedroom/bathroom with 1 “farm animal” member. In retrospect it probably would have made more sense to have Noke and me switch rooms as I probably would have gotten along better with his roommates and he would have gotten along better with mine. But when we all got to the house and picked rooms I think we all pretty much picked our rooms before we picked-out our friends.
My relationship with the “I hate farm animals” group was easy right from the start and I got along quite well with McKinney/Hammortree/and Kaycey. The problem was that the energy coming from these guys was getting increasingly hostile towards the “farm animals” as the days went on. Every time I would hang out with them all they seemed to want to talk about was how much they hated Yager and how they hated how much “those guys” act like idiots. It was getting to the point where I didn’t want to spend time with them at all because it was really ruining my good mood which was somewhat fragile as it was after being trapped in the house with no escape for so long. And besides that, since exiting the tournament I had been pretty sad and I was looking for things that could bring my mood up instead of tear it down. I definitely tried to limit my time with the “I hate farm animals” group because their negativity was really not serving me well at the time and they were getting nastier daily.
Like Children On A Playground
The members of the “I hate farm animals” group all had had a few run-ins with Yager at this point, but I would say that Hammortree probably took the interactions the most personally out of the three of them and as a result, he was starting to take the brunt of the taunting from the “farm animals”. The problem was that Hammortree was trying to deal with their irrational behaviour by being logical and trying to reason with them. This was a big mistake and I have said it before and I will say it again but you cannot deal with unreasonable people by using reason, so just don’t try.
Hammortree was setting himself up for failure every time he tried to tell them what his expectations of them were and he was getting increasingly frustrated as a result of it – the “farm animals” would simply not comply with his requests to act civilized and it was making him increasingly irate. They definitely noticed the fact that they were getting under Hammortree’s skin and just like children on the playground they proceeded to escalate the situation. They would sing songs about him within his earshot just to disrespect him, and then they started to mess around with his food, and then finally they started to throw things at him.
The projectiles started in last 24 hours in the house, the food tampering started within the last 48 hours – and yes, the gloves were definitely off.
Yager Acting Like An Idiot – Yes Again…..Stealing Shoes
Yager had been caught stealing several times by now and at this point it was pretty much now just common-knowledge that if your stuff went missing you could always guarantee that Yager had taken it.
We had rules in the Ultimate Fighter house which we had all come up with in each other’s presence as a big group upon arrival. These rules encompassed cleaning duties, to respect for other peoples personal belongings, to not tampering with anybody’s food, etc, etc, etc,… Unfortunately Yager is just not somebody who follows rules and instead is someone who will go waaaaay out of his way just to break them – he does this merely for the sake of doing it, and he will do it whether it is convenient or not.
This being the case with Yager, the rule about not messing with people’s stuff was not much of a deterrent. On the last day in the house he decided to take one of everyone’s shoes as a “prank”, and prank or not this act was clearly breaking normal people rules again and it had no purpose other than to piss people off, which it did.
Throwing Beans At Hammortree
Like I said earlier, Yager and Tavares and McCray had been picking on Hammortree – it was just a little bit at first, but it became more and more and more frequent and as the last few days went on the situation went a little bit too far. The abuse had evolved to the point where Yager and Tavares were throwing beans and flour at Hammortree and McKinney out Yager’s window, the beans were the first things thrown and the flour out the window was the encore.
Hammortree retaliated by throwing his garbage on Yager’s bed and I thought he showed a lot of backbone in doing so. After all, throwing beans and flour at people is completely disrespectful and McKinney and Hammortree didn’t do anything to deserve it – they were just minding their own business.
Hammortree was perfectly justified to retaliate and any reasonable person would have understood this but Yager being the guy he is, did not see this at all. Instead of understanding another person’s point of view Yager instead saw himself as the innocent victim of a unprovoked attack which now justified him to escalate the situation by throwing beans all over Hammortree’s personal belongings (how dare Hammortree stand up for himself).
I was positive that punches would fly and I would have to save someone. I was surprised to see that what started off as a blow-up between Yager and Hammortree quickly turned into a showdown between Yager and Kaycey when Yager made a face at Kaycey as he left Hammortree’s room. I already knew that Kaycey was looking for any excuse to punch Yager so this was more than enough reason to set him off.
In the yelling match between Kaycey and Yager I thought that Yager showed incredible nerve by implying that Kaycey was a pussy when he said “you had your 2 chances and you didn’t use none of them”. All I gotta say to Yager is at least Kaycey went out fighting like a man, unlike you who didn’t even have the balls to stand-up off his stool. It was obvious to everyone in the house (even Yager’s friends) that Yager did not have any right to talk to Kaycey like that. Kaycey is 10 times the man that Yager is and he proved this fact only moments later when Yager refused to fist fight him in the backyard.
It was pure comedy to see Yager talking tough as if he was on his way outside to fight Kaycey (“Lets do it, I got my shoes on… You think I’m fucking playin”) while he was walking in the exact opposite direction he needed to go to meet him in the backyard. Instead of following Kaycey downstairs and outside, he went straight to his bedroom and peered out the window at Kaycey who had just challenged him to fight him man to man and the funniest part for me to watch was when he closed his bedroom window as an extra precaution (just in case) – if that doesn’t say scared, I don’t know what does.