Sunday 5 October 2008 - Underwear and Tepid Dogs and Other Football-Related Stuff
At Spaz' football game today...
...I overheard a brief conversation as I was standing in the concession line for the purpose of satisfying my hunger pangs with a dry, overpriced tepid dog (as opposed to a "hot" dog). The conversation was between a man who had just emerged from the bathrooms with a little boy in tow and a woman whom I assume was his wife and the mother of the child. The man said, in a voice that did not even attempt to conceal his frustration, "I had to throw his underwear away." And I, standing a few feet away with my back to the not-so-happy little family, smiled. Because I have so been there and done that and am exceedingly glad that I am not there anymore.
...I sat in the stands thinking, I am so taking this morning's post down when I get home. But when I got home I had three nice comments and so decided to leave it up for a couple days as planned. (Although I bet that in church tomorrow, I will sit there thinking, I am so taking that post down when I get home...) Anyway, thanks for all of your nice, encouraging comments.
...we parents in the visitors' stands had a few occasions to clap and cheer. And the parents across from us in the home team stands had almost 3 times as many. Let's just say Spaz' team was not the one that scored 58 points. But we did score a season-high 22, and Spaz made a good catch.
...I donned and removed headband, gloves, and extra jacket numerous times, as the temperature couldn't decide whether to be warm or cold. I also drank home-brewed coffee from a thermos, and never once was it dry or tepid.
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Ours were not great scorerers, either. Q played some truly awesome D, though. They kept calling his name out on the PA. That was QB on the tackle.
OK, I'll stop. I actually told myself that I was not going to blog about the games.
~C