Saturday, February 11, 2012

Grumblings on a bad day

Grumble grumble. I went to one of these Florida food truck rallys everyone is talking about and it was hugely disappointing. There were like 4 bakery/donut/funnel cake trucks, a pizza truck and 3 actual food trucks with lines miles long. I ended up getting chicken in a sweet bun which wasnt bad but where was the hot dog truck ? The sandwich truck ? The taco truck?  I swear there is more food variety at the weekly farmers market. At least there you can get a Gyro.

One of my kids had a hockey game today and lost it 8-0. Wasnt his teams fault - their goalie is a beginner and the opponet goalie was making Hassek style saves. But it wasnt any fun to watch. And my kid kept passing it in front of his net. People are still coming up to me and telling me how amazing he skates for only first stepping on the ice 6 months ago. Boy is that a double edged sword when you've just lost 8-0 and your team is depending on you to score on one of the 5-6 break away he gets per game.

At one of the intermissions the league director informed me he'd just been fired and people might start asking why my kids havnt paid since he had apparently not informed his bosses of the decision to permit my kids to play for free.

My older kid was suppose to play a double header for a bantam league team that invited him to join them after he practiced with them last week but the arena director vetoed it - and never told me about this wonderful decision. So we are on time and dressed to play hockey and the kid is rightly upset that he didnt get to play this week and I'm left telling him they wont let him play with kids his age because hes too small. And were are both frustrated with this line of reasoning since there are kids of similar size and younger than him on this team..so what is it really about?  I feel like I failed since the 9yo gets to play 3 games this weekend while the 13yo got to play zero.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not your fault....

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At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

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