Something special is bound to happen when supernatural skill meets elite pettiness. This was pretty much the entire appeal of Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance. Well, please allow me to offer up a recent example of this compelling occurrence.
For those unfamiliar, Trevor Rainbolt is a premier player in the world of “geoguessing.” This online sport involves players being shown an image from Google Maps and then doing their best to pinpoint its location in a matter of minutes. Or seconds if you are of Rainbolt’s caliber. Here’s an example of Rainbolt at his most precise.
So being able to identify a location using things like local vegetation, forms of street signs, traffic signals, and landscapes is a pretty impressive talent. But what if those skills were utilized in the most magnificently petty fashion imaginable? Well here you go.
A video posted online showed a man declaring that he had just eaten the best bagel sandwich in the world, but was refusing to share its location with anyone else online. Rainbolt, an awesome name, viewed this flex as a bit of culinary “gatekeeping” and decided to dedicate his time and incredible skill to identifying the source of the sandwich in the video.
Rainbolt admittedly spent upwards of 80 hours trying to track down the source of the bagel. At that point, he had narrowed the field to within the bounds of New York City — which isn’t the narrowest field one can imagine.
Rainbolt vowed not to give up. And after sourcing information from some true New Yawkers (I’m walking here!), Rainbolt posted that he had found the bagel.
And you may be asking, why would the bagel order now be called the Rainbolt? That’s because, according to the man himself, Rainbolt “got the bagel shop to name the bagel after me. so if he ever wants his bagel again he will have to order in shame.”
Incredible. Simply incredible.
