Everett is a Funny Place

Three games last weekend. Friday night, I was in Portland to watch the Winterhawks put the final nail in the Spokane Chiefs coffin by a score of 3-0. Saturday was in Seattle as the Thunderbirds beat the Silvertips 2-1. And on Sunday, the Silvertips beat the Kelowna Rockets by a score of 4-1 up in Everett. So I got to see alot of I-5 this weekend.

A funny story from Sunday. Just before the game started in Everett, I text messaged Emily with the news that there were 4 navy men sitting right in front of me. I did this since she has a thing for sailors (lol). But her reply kinda put me in a strange place. She asked me if they were "hot". Not really knowing what to say, I told her that was her department. But she persisted by telling me to ask them if they thought they were hot.

Of course I wasn't gonna ask them that. So I turned to the best source I could find at the time...the teenage girl sitting next to me. I showed her the text's Emily and I had exchanged and asked for her opinion. "Well", she said, "I haven't really got a good look at them yet". So right in the middle of play, she squeezed out of our row and went down a few steps to take a good look at them. While she was doing this, I glanced over at her mom...who gave me the "ok" gesture with her hand while winking her eye and nodding at me.

The girl posed on the steps with her fingers rubbing her chin before saying "tell your friend the third one from your left is definitely hot". The three sailors started laughing between themselves and turned around to look at me. "Hey", I said, "it's for this girl I know who has the hots for sailors". The one the teen identified as "hot" asked me "now is this girl you know hot"? I nodded my head and replied "yeah...she's pretty cute". They kinda laughed a little more and turned their attention back to the game.

At that point, my old seat next to Elizabeth (which was empty) looked mighty appealing to me (lol).

So I sat down there for the start of the next period. Sometime during a stoppage in play, I texted Emily back with the results of my little poll. While I was in the middle of doing that, Elizabeth asked me "are you sending a text message"? I told her I was and she said "you know, I've never figured out how to do that". So after I was done sending that message to Emily, I proceeded to try to teach Elizabeth how to text message. And that pretty much took up the rest of the period (lol).

She did get one off to me during the next intermission. But then she called me for some reason. I heard her talking to Jerry on the other end. But she wasn't answering me. So I broke-off my conversation with Don and Kenny (more on that in a little bit) and went back to the seat to see what was up. Elizabeth confirmed she had called me. But she never really gave an explaination as to why. Then, when the 3rd period started, she informed me that her phone wasn't ringing. So we sat there for just about the entire 3rd period trying to figure out how to make her phone ring again. I was successful in getting the damned thing to vibrate. But I couldn't get the phone to ring for her.

So don't ask me how the game in Everett went...especially from the 2nd period on. Because I was too busy horsing around with cell phones (lol).

Now for my little story about Don and Kenny. We were standing around near my section talking when this hot chick walked by. I commented on her and Don said "go ahead...go try to get her". Always out to entertain my friends (and to wash that ugly incident with the sailors, the teenager and Emily out of my head...lol) I went ahead and approached her. Not really thinking about what I was gonna say, I just used the line that Kara had told me worked on her before; "Hi. My name is Tom. I play hockey".

A bit of a stretch, I admit. But it was the best I could come up with on the spot. She looked at me all cross-eyed and said "good for you" and continued walking (lol). When I turned around Don was laughing his ass off. Kenny had his hand in his face. And I was chuckling myself. I knew I had no shot at her...especially with such a shitty line like that (lol). But like I said, it was more for entertainment purposes. So I wasn't feeling down about it at all.

That's about it for last weekend. Next Friday, I'm off to Portland and then Seattle on Saturday and Sunday. It's "Hockey Challenge" weekend in the Emerald City. I may get up there a little early on Sunday and watch some of the early games. But I'll miss the ones on Saturday since I'm working that morning.

And one more thing.......

WELCOME HOME, KARA!!!!!!!!!

Yes...the Army finally released her. It was great seeing her again on Friday night. Even though it wasn't for very long. Kurt and I got seperated from her before the game and we never saw her again. But now that she's back, I'm sure we'll be seeing alot more of her as the season winds down.