Sleeping In for a Change

Barb can never sleep in.  She is envious of me being able to sleep in and get a lot of rest.

 

So this past Sunday morning, she woke up.  She looked at her iPod.  It said 8 o’clock.  She was so happy.  She had slept in.

 

She went out to the kitchen.  She noticed that the clock on the coffee machine was wrong.  The clock on the microwave was wrong too.

 

Then she realized it was Daylight Savings Time.  She hadn’t slept in.  It was just the clock on her iPod had changed.

What I Wanted to See

Barb was playing a pickleball tournament on Saturday.  She got home early in the afternoon.  The girl's team at the college was playing a doubleheader.  It started at 1 pm.  So I decided to go to the second game thinking it would be starting at about 3 pm.

 

When I arrived at the game, I looked at the scoreboard and saw it was in the first inning.  My friend from the park, Kenny Ronco was sitting in his lawnchair watching the game.  I walked up to him and asked, "Who won the first game.?" He said, “This is the first game.”  I was confused.  I asked him, “What happened to the 1 o’clock game”.  He said, “This is the 1 o’clock game”.

 

Then finally I looked at the scoreboard again.  It said it was the seventh inning.  The score was 9 to 6.  I guess when I walked in I saw what I was expecting to see not what was really on the scoreboard.

Useless at Communication

My sister wanted to send Julia, Laura and Sarah St Patrick’s Day cards.  She asked me for Laura and Sarah’s address.  I said I had Sarah’s address but I didn’t know Laura’s address.  I said I would email Laura to get her address in Halifax.

 

So I sent an email.  I didn’t know what to title the email.  So I titled it “I Don’t Know Laura’s Address” and sent it to Laura.

 

Laura replied quickly.  She said she thought it was a cute title to the email.  She included her new address.  So I forwarded Laura’s email to Daphne and Barb.

 

Barb got the email.  She didn’t read the email right away.  She just read the title “I Don’t Know Laura’s Address”.  She said she didn’t know Laura’s address either.

 

Much later she read the email and found out that it was a reply from Laura with her address included.  She asked me why I didn’t tell her I had Laura’s address.  She thought I was useless at communication.

My Man

Every day at softball there are four teams playing two separate games.  There are four of us driving together.  So some of us are always finished before the others.

 

Usually, my team is last to finish.  One day my team was finished early.  I walked to Bill’s car and waited for his game to end.

 

When Bill came, I got in the front seat.  Gary said, “There is a Combat bag lying behind the car”.  I said, “Oh that’s mine”.  So Gary put it in the trunk.  It was good he did because Bill didn’t know it was there.  He would have backed up right over it.  Brian said “Ivan usually has his man take care of his bag”.

Bam Bam has a Problem

Barb plays the game of pickleball hard.  She doesn’t worry about the short game or the finesse shots.  She simply bangs the pickleball with all her might all the time.

 

The guys at pickleball call her Bam Bam.

 

However, Bam Bam has a problem.  She keeps breaking her pickleball paddle.  She has broken three already this winter.  Fortunately, the company that makes them takes them back and replaces them with new ones.  They say there must be a fault with the paddle but I think it just the beast of Bam Bam.

Maintenance Fans

The park has a number of maintenance men who fix things around the park.  They were having a meeting in the community center while Barb was down at the community center with the quilting club.

 

Their meeting broke up just as Barb’s quilting ladies were getting ready to pack up and leave.  The maintenance men yelled over to Barb to congratulate her on her pickleball gold medal.  Barb figured that they must have seen her picture on the park’s website.

Pickleball Drama

Barb and her friend Barb D. won gold at the women’s pickleball tournament.  To make it to the finals, they had to beat a team from out of town who were cheaters.  They would miss a shot and call it out.

 

One time they called a shot out, Barb looked at the judge strangely and said did you see that.  He agreed with Barb that it was definitely in.  These ladies had all kinds of dirty tactics.  To break the momentum, they would ask the referee what the score was when they already knew the score.  One lady even faked a leg cramp to take a break during a bad time.  This shook up Barb and Barb D.  Fortunately, they were able to beat these ladies to reach the finals in which they won gold.

 

The next day Barb was playing mixed doubles and her friend Barb D. was watching and cheering her on against one of the cheater ladies.  After Barb’s team won, the cheater lady got into Barb  D’s face and told her she was a poor sport.  Barb D. shot right back that she at least she wasn’t a cheater.

 

Later, Barb saw the cheater lady surrounded by her supporters literally crying about losing and being treated so badly.