Stutter

Barb just realized that we never got the cards for our Travel Insurance.  She thought maybe she never paid for it but I checked the bank account and saw that she had paid for it.  So she phoned the Travel Insurance company and explained the situation and the man on the phone said that they had mailed the cards to our Canadian address.  So he sent us an electronic version of the cards by email that we could print out.  Barb was happy that it all worked out but she told me after she got off the phone with the man that he probably should have found another type or work instead to phone customer service because he had a terrible stutter.

Misunderstanding

When Barb's pickleball friend and her husband took us out for dinner, Barb was talking casually about how difficult it is to win the US Open in the 4.5 category.  Barb thinks it is easier to win the 5.0 category because, even though they are higher ranked, there are fewer teams.  Barb was saying that all of them should play in the 5.0 category.  I guess Barb's friend thought Barb was asking her to play with her in the 5.0 category because she heard through the grapevine that other people had heard that she was playing with this friend in the US Open.  Barb did not intend that at all. She was just blowing off steam.  Then her friend sent Barb a message saying that she didn't think she was ready to play in the US Open and Barb was really surprised that she had misunderstood the whole conversation but Barb was also happy that her friend backed out on her own and Barb didn't to tell her she didn't want to play with her.

Pickleball Picks

Barb's friends are all part of a group of pickleball players called Deb Harrison's Pickleball Picks.  Barb has been very sad that she hasn't been picked to join the group.  I guess you can't ask to join you have to be picked by Deb Harrison who is an instructor in The Villages.  Today she was playing at her normal place and some other people came and took over the courts.  So Deb Harrison set up a foursome to go to another set of courts to play.  Barb was one of the foursome.  After they were finished Deb asked Barb to come over to speak to her and Deb asked, sort of secretly, if Barb wanted to join her Pickleball Picks.  Barb was very honoured but she also wondered why it took 3 years for Deb to pick when some of her other friends were asked as soon as they arrived.  Deb told her that it takes her a long time to decide whether to pick someone to join the group. If you show too much interest in the group, she won't pick you.

Almost Sad

Barb's pickleball friend and her husband took us out for dinner at a good hamburger place.  I had a juicy hamburger and after dinner I went to the washroom to wash my hands.  I was drying my hands with the paper towels over the waste paper basket and I heard a little noise in the basket.  I looked in the basket and saw my university award ring sitting among the used paper towels.  I was lucky that I took notice of the noise because I would have hated to lose the ring that I was so proud of that I had received when I graduated from university 40 years ago.  I had gotten my ring made bigger when I was working quite a few years ago and now I am a lot thinner and I never got the ring resized.  So now it is too big for my finger.

Giggles

Barb set up my phone to play baby giggles when I get a Messenger notification.  Whenever we hear the baby giggles, we both giggle too.

Ultra Low Cost Airline

Spirit Airlines that Laura took to get here and to get home was advertised as the first Ultra Low Cost Airline.  We thought that was because you had to pay for everything even carry-on baggage.  I looked up Spirit Airlines in Wikipedia and it said that they were also known to have the best on-time record of all the airlines.  We realized that they could be on-time because they don't wait for their passengers to get on the plane.  Laura had a stopover in Houston and the stopover was only to change crews.  Everyone had to get off.  So Laura decided to use the washroom which was right beside the gate.  When she came out of the washroom a few minutes later, she found her plane had already left without her.  She was so furious.  There wasn't another seat available until Sunday morning.  So I bought a direct flight from Houston to Seattle on another airline for her and she paid me back.  It was a great waste of money.  She was so mad at Spirit Airlines and I couldn't believe that they would leave without her because she had a boarding pass and her luggage was on the plane.

Great Scott

When I dropped Laura off at the airport, there was a Telsa in front of us letting someone off at the departures.  The Telsa was really neat because it had it wings up like the old DeLoreans. Laura and I thought of the great times we had watching the Back to the Future movies when she was young.