Today is a new day and my team is playing at home. I had high hopes of winning 3 courts BUT one of my best players is not in town and with my feel not all that great I now have no such expectations but we will see. I did keep me on court 1 but I put a court 3 pairing on court 2 and my court 2 pairing on court 3. It may sound like I am stacking the deck by changing the pairings but I really have 5 players who can play any court. WE will see how it goes. I am going to tell my partner to not rush to put the ball in play as I think my energy is going to be suspect. What the heck, it's all a game right?
I got outside this morning and got the car washed and vacuumed. Some friends will be here tomorrow and we may go out for lunch so we need a clean car!
I still have no answer for my rash. I am kind of keeping it at bay with anti itch cream but that does little if anything to make it go away. Maybe time will heal.
We are back in warm temps for a while. I got in the pool twice yesterday and it felt good. I think at match time today it is supposed to be mid 80s. That is a bit warm for tennis but I will not complain.
Enough for this morning. I had eggs and bacon for breakfast and now, after a car wash, am downing the last of the FP so life is good.
One of my most embarrassing moments
It is early March of 1965. I am kind of looking at the future rather than the present as my football and basketball days in high school are now history. Being the captain of the football team and co-captain of the basketball team I felt kind of responsible for a year that did not go that well. Football was an out and out disaster and basketball was OK but ended up on down note. So here I am about ready to get out of high school and see what the world has to offer.
I have decided to enroll at NDSU in Fargo. For some reason college really does not sound all that fun but really I have to get out on my own. My football coach had contacted Jamestown college as he thought I would be a player they would like but it is a teachers college and in that I am not interested in. There is war in the air so I have to go to school or be drafted so NDSU it will be.
But really what is on my mind more than anything is social. I had fallen in love with Gail Saunders in the winter of 1964 but she is now off to college in Minnesota and we decided to not keep that relationship as she was in college and I still in high school. Now my thoughts are focused on a gal who I had dated in my freshman year. JoEllen and I are both seniors and I have no idea if this is going to last beyond our senior year but for this day in early March it is a date with JoEllen. I had picked her up in Forman and we had gone to a movie. As usual we sat in one of the double seats near the back of the movie theater. I should add here that I should have known enough to avoid this situation that happen. What happened? Well the movie was over and of course it is too early to take her home so what does one do? Well there are not a lot of places to go or much to do so it happens that there are kind of isolated country road that are good places to park. Well I am not thinking so much of Dad's car which I am leary of so we end up in the country chatting and looking at the stars and..... It is getting late so time to start the car and head home. BUT the battery is almost dead. There we sit in the middle of nowhere in a car that is getting chilly and a battery that just will not cooperate. I have to choice here because we are too far from town to get to JoEllen's home and besides am I going to walk to her parents home and ask for help--no. I see a yard light that looks about a mile away. I look at my watch and see that it is most likely beyond the farmers bed time but what is a guy to do? Well the only choice is to walk the mile, knock on the farmers door and ask for help. JoEllen, after sitting in a cold car for some time sees the farmer and me coming down the road on his tractor! We pull the car and it starts right up. I do not remember the rest of the night but to this day it stands as one of the most embarrassing moments for me. The end of the story is JoEllen and I did continue to date through the school year. Gail came home in mid summer after an awful experience at a job in the Twin Cities and we started dating again. The rest is history. I do know that I never told Mom and Dad.
Enough.
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