All things considered....
it was a good evening.My dad and I were slated to umpire together, both of the local Pony Boys teams in the grudge match. I was looking forward to doing a game with my father, even though I had the plate duties. The game was scheduled for 6:30, so about 5:35, I started getting ready. About that time, I changed to the weather channel because there was a pretty vicious cloudbank off to the west. Scrolling across the bottom of the screen was a severe thunderstorm warning for my county. The warning stated that the storm would be here by 5:45.
About 5:43, it started raining fairly well. I happened to look out back and i saw a couple of little itty-bitty hail pieces. Nothing serious. All of the sudden, the skies opened up and it was as if someone was throwing ice cubes. The hail was nearly golf ball size and just popping all over. It was hammering down along with a deluge of rain. Fortunately, nothing happened to my exploder. At that point, I was certain that the umpiring was done.
That was fine because I could execute Phase two of my plan. The plan, which worked to perfection, was to join my friends at Old Chicago for a few drinks. I showed up. I said my hellos to the table of friends. Josh was yelling at me to ask Tim how Belize was, which keyed me into the fact that he finally proposed to his girlfriend, which my comment was "It's about damn time." It's good thing, which the potential for a kick ass wedding and an even more kickass party.
Another friend of ours was there. Leah had been in town for a while but this was the first time I had gotten to see her. A little background was that Leah and Brian moved to Florida and got engaged. Brian is one of Timmy's former roommates and a good friend. I sat down by Leah, and the first thing I noticed was that the ring wasn't on her finger. I didn't mention anything about it. Later my suspicions were confirmed when I overheard Leah talking to Christy and she told Christy that the engagement was off. Oh my gosh. Brian and Leah had been together for seven years. Eventually, Leah curled up on me and told me parts of the story because we kept getting interrupted by people coming by. It sounds like a real mess. Brian's in town now so we'll see what happens as this will be a wierd week. I won't judge either of them and will continue to be a good friend.
Should continue to be interesting.
posted by Rusty @ 8:19 AM
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