Ballpark Betty

Barb’s friend wanted me to put some audio books on her iPod so that she could listen to them on their drive home to Nova Scotia.  She told Barb that if she had some audio books to listen to she wouldn’t have to listen to her husband who talks all the way home.  So I found out who were their favourite authors and looked up some books on the library websites.  I have access to three libraries: the Avon Park library in Florida, the New Hamburg library at home and I still have access to the Ottawa library.  For some reason, the Ottawa library automatically renewed my card.

I found some audio books and downloaded them.  I have a way to save them on my computer so they don’t expire which is very useful.  Then I copied them to my mp3 player and rode over to Barb’s friend’s house on my bike.  I copied the books onto her iTunes and then her iPod.

On my ride home on my bike, I was waiting for a car to pass some construction vehicles and the car stopped and signalled to me.  A lady got out of the car shouting “Ivan”.  It turned out to be Ballpark Betty a fastball fan from Peterborough that I see at all the tournaments with her husband Jerry.  They travel all over the continent watching tournaments and I see them a lot.  She had come down to Florida to help a friend from another park drive home and they had come over to our park to visit a friend.  It was quite a coincidence that she was driving out of the park at the exact same time as I was on the road riding my bike home from Barb’s friend.