It was supposed to be an early night; the Penguins unexpected seventh game would not disrupt that. I would watch the game at a bar, head home right after that, and get up at 7:00 am for my long Saturday. I did not, however, anticipate that the Pens would win and that turned the whole night around. Not only did they win, but they led most of the game, so that enhanced my beer consumption. But even after the joyous victory, and high-fivin’ the Pens fans, the plan was to go home. But then I met the two guys and a woman who were also cheering on the Pens. The two guys were brothers who were from Mt. Lebanon which is in Pittsburgh, and the woman was one of the guy’s wife. We got to reminiscing about Pittsburgh and then they asked me to do a Jaeger shot with them. And one led to another and another. Then they said they were going to hang out for the dancin’. It then dawned on me that LoDos had dancing on Friday nights. I had never been there on a Friday night and never suspected that they would have dancing as this was in Lone Tree. I thought everyone would be home and asleep by ten.
Well not only did they have dancing, but the female to male ratio was 2-1, and I had two wingmen (the guy’s wife headed home as she had to work the next day). Of course, since this was my first night with these wingmen, I was like Sid Crosby with two rookies from Saskatchewan. Instead of targeting one group of women, the lead wingmen ventured into the land of the All-Stars. I decided to hold back with the puck knowing that that rush was doomed to failure. So I hung out at the blue line, and then one woman dancing with another woman, complimented me on my Pens jersey. I took that as an invitation to dance and I made an odd man rush. It ended up being one-on-three as their friend joined. And then they started to play Thriller. At that point I knew I needed reinforcements, and one of the guys had mentioned he was a Michael Jackson fan back in the day, so I went and pulled him. Alas, Thriller ended (I never thought I would be sad at a MJ song ending), and the ladies vacated the floor.
The other guy was back at the table waiting on a pizza. I chastised him on his lack of priorities and directed him towards this group of cougars clearly desirous of dancing. Well, he chatted them up, and lo and behold, we were on the floor with a couple of cougars (of course, cougar is a relative term, since they were in their mid-40s, but clearly they were looking for young prey and instead they got us). I must say they still had quite a bit of purr in them as one did the shimmy to the ground move and back up. They ended up playing some hip-hop song which ended the dancing and sent us back to our respective tables. At that point, I returned to my senses, had a couple of cups of coffee and decided I better head home since I had to be up at 7:00.
Once I got home, I took my patented hangover cure (The Cure for a Hangover – created by a couple of CU grad students – you can buy it online). I did get up at 7:00, but even the hangover cure could not completely rid my hangover. I went to my meeting at 8:00, then headed over to Parker for their town fair. You may ask why I would head to the Parker town fair, especially early on a Saturday, when I was hungover. Well, I had volunteered to man the Douglas County Democrats booth. I ended up being the first worker there, and I had to open the booth. The other guy showed up 30 mins later. They had ironically located us next to a hunting knife booth whose proprietor asked us why we were not satisfied with controlling the country and why did we want more. We also had a bigoted guy come up who made some crude immigrant jokes clearly not figuring out that I too was an immigrant. At any rate, we managed to sign up a few people.
Then it was off to pick up my son. We had lunch at Chic-fil-a, and then we went to the religious ed class I teach. It runs from 1:30 to 4:30 and my class is 1st grade-3rd grade so yes you could imagine the impact on my headache. After the class, it was off to Burger King for dinner, and I then dropped my son off. Finally I made it home, and finally I slept!!!
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