Lesson Learned

Today I learned that my experiences playing Call of Duty doesn’t really translate to paintball. Aside from strategically flanking the side (which I did at will), I couldn’t see what I was shooting half the time because the mask would fog up from the heat. There’s also the thing with friendly fire. In COD I can shoot my own teammates without penalty (unless I’m playing hardcore mode), but in paintball they get eliminated. So here I was trying to flank the other team when I heard someone creep up behind me. I turned around quickly and, without really aiming, fired a shot that, unfortunately for the other guy, hit his hoo-haas. “Oh shit, my bad!” It was my teammate.