an auspicious beginning
a couple of nights ago i got a call from a newly married guy on my basketball team - tommy. he was going to be unable to make it to our game scheduled for the following night. it seems that his wife had made dinner plans with another couple prior to their receipt of the league schedule. he said there was no way he could get out of that in order to come to this.
i had a different experience and outlook shortly after i got married.
joey melgoza had asked me to play in a softball tournament with him one weekend. he and i have been friends for a long time and we have played in a lot of basketball and softball leagues and tournaments together. this particular tournament was in east austin, off of govalle and rosewood.
we lost our first game on saturday, and got stuck in the loser's bracket of a double-elimination tournament. the loser's bracket is undesirable because one's team will have to play alot more games to get back to the championship (in one way this makes it quite desirable.) we played several more games on saturday and won them all.
sunday morning, i decided to skip church to go to the tournament. it was not -probably- the best decision; but, it was the one i made that day. additionally, later that night, there was a married-couples relationship workshop at the stake center. in these pre-cell-phone-days, charlotte and i had made the arrangement that i would just take a change of clothes and meet her at the church later that evening.
the games began, and we kept on winning. i think we played about 5 games that day before we got to the championship game. we were going to play the team that beat us in that first game of the tournament; and, i figured they would beat us again and leave me just enough time to get to the church. the problem was that we killed the other team in the first game of the championship. when it was apparent that we were going to win, i started trying to decide what to do. i knew there would be consequences and repercussions for leaving charlotte at the marriage workshop by herself; but, i also knew that after two days of playing, i sure wanted to stick around to see if we could double-dip this team. besides, i was the left fielder and (to quote my father) they needed me.
i don't need to tell you that i decided to stay for the final. as it turns out; charlotte forgave me, and i have a trophy around here somewhere.
i still don't understand tommy's way of thinking; but, i can understand why he might think he must think that way.
i had a different experience and outlook shortly after i got married.
joey melgoza had asked me to play in a softball tournament with him one weekend. he and i have been friends for a long time and we have played in a lot of basketball and softball leagues and tournaments together. this particular tournament was in east austin, off of govalle and rosewood.
we lost our first game on saturday, and got stuck in the loser's bracket of a double-elimination tournament. the loser's bracket is undesirable because one's team will have to play alot more games to get back to the championship (in one way this makes it quite desirable.) we played several more games on saturday and won them all.
sunday morning, i decided to skip church to go to the tournament. it was not -probably- the best decision; but, it was the one i made that day. additionally, later that night, there was a married-couples relationship workshop at the stake center. in these pre-cell-phone-days, charlotte and i had made the arrangement that i would just take a change of clothes and meet her at the church later that evening.
the games began, and we kept on winning. i think we played about 5 games that day before we got to the championship game. we were going to play the team that beat us in that first game of the tournament; and, i figured they would beat us again and leave me just enough time to get to the church. the problem was that we killed the other team in the first game of the championship. when it was apparent that we were going to win, i started trying to decide what to do. i knew there would be consequences and repercussions for leaving charlotte at the marriage workshop by herself; but, i also knew that after two days of playing, i sure wanted to stick around to see if we could double-dip this team. besides, i was the left fielder and (to quote my father) they needed me.
i don't need to tell you that i decided to stay for the final. as it turns out; charlotte forgave me, and i have a trophy around here somewhere.
i still don't understand tommy's way of thinking; but, i can understand why he might think he must think that way.
posted by cm at 1/16/2007
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