The office resembles the television show of the same name. As any office, we're an assorted bunch. Short, tall, skinny, big, smart, not smart, funny, dull, handsome, not so handsome, serious, and everything in between. We are our own melting pot. Each day there is drama, horror and comedy. As if you couldn't guess, I like the comedy. I'm a comedian first, and an insurance man next.
Me? I've signed up for shooting, softball, bowling, tennis, archery, poker, tug-o-war, track & field, flag football, ping pong, canoeing, poker and fencing.
A lot of these events I could do in my sleep and still win - set age group records even. I maintain that I have the mind and body of an 20 year old. This mindset will never change no matter how old I get. Mark - you get to figure that one out.
Softball practice is tomorrow. I need to get cleats, and a glove since the last time I played softball was church father/son in Bunkerville a good 15 years ago. This is when I threw my arm out. It's since been surgically repaired and I've tossed a lot of passes at the beach each summer WITH AUTHORITY so my being at 3rd is golden.
So I'm penciled in at 3rd base, aka The Hot Corner and Wade just laughed when I told him.
He said, "You're gonna get your teeth knocked out."
Amusing.
What Wade doesn't know is that I was trained by late Lenny Snellman who always wanted us to charge the ball and maintain PMA. If you don't know what PMA is then tough. Lenny Snellman's claim to fame was coaching his beloved Tigers to several titles back in the early 1970's. His next greatest feat was assisting Dick Ruttan's around the earth voyage as part of the meteorlogical team.
I'm not gonna lie. I haven't participated in some of the events, but I have watched them on television and they don't look that hard. Fencing? Puh-leeze. Ping pong? I come from a family of ping pong champions. It's true, look it up.
As the weeks roll by, I'm sure there will be posts and photos of our team escapades, and posts about me getting totally freaked out at losing and throwing things and engaging in low-intensity cursing. I dislike not winning. I've gotten better at this over the years, but it's still something that burns inside of me at 100,000 kelvin. As Vince Lombardi once said, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." And in todays wimpy world of where every kid gets a trophy, and every kid gets to play makes me want to vomit. Kids need to compete against other kids in order to get better....better at anything and everything.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
3 comments:
You need to hire a film crew to document all of this. This is too good to be true. Don't hurt yourself!
ACR
You go man! I'm with Alec...we need to document this. I'm afraid we are all a wee bit concerned about your bad back, bad wing, pulled hammies. Concerned enough to actually place bets :)
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