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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Inter-Active Hockey

It was my first ‘live’ hockey game.
Okay, I know that all of them are live.
And quite lively.
Let me re-word . . .
It was the first game I attended where I was actually sitting in the bleachers.
It’s a lot more exciting when one is surrounded by fans.
And can feel the cold air on one’s cheeks.
Just FYI.
My friend, Colleen, rabid hockey brat whose boyfriend was minding the net for our team, was explaining things to me.
I glanced at her occasionally as she spouted such foreign terms as ‘face-off’ and ‘icing’ and ‘high-sticking’ and ‘penalty’. But mostly, I just sat and merrily watched the game.
Not knowing – or caring – who was winning.
Colleen was not as . . . indifferent as me.
She wasn’t very tall, but she could sure make her presence felt, bobbing periodically to her feet to launch ‘criticisms’ at whichever aggravating party was . . . aggravating. As in: “What’d’ya call that, Ref?! Are you blind?!!!”
But as loud as she was, her behaviour had nothing on the woman sitting in front of us, next to the boards.
Now that woman was vocal.
She used words I’d never even heard of, expertly launching them at the ref with practiced ease.
I tried mentally editing out the more profane. But if I’d been successful, the woman would have been sitting there with her mouth open and nothing emerging.
Sigh.
Halfway through the game, she became a little more pro-active.
And that’s when things really got interesting.
After flinging a particularly incendiary little ball of nastiness at the long-suffering ref, she leaned on the boards and waited for the man to skate past.
She didn’t have to wait for long.
If you know hockey, you know that this game goes back and forth . . . a lot.
The ref skated by, intent on the next play, whistle in his mouth and hands and feet working frantically.
The woman leaned over and swung her purse at him, knocking him clear into tomorrow. I say that because it was ‘tomorrow’ before he woke up.
He was carried from the ice with reverence and care.
The woman was escorted to the hoosegow with neither of the above.
When officers opened her purse, they discovered a bottle of whisky.
Full.
The ref made a complete recovery, living to ref again.
Never saw that woman again, though. At least not at any hockey games.
But the lesson was learned.
Alcohol, in the right purse, can kill you.

P.S. I think the refs should be pulling in the big salaries, they’ve got the tougher jobs . . 

Delores of Under the Porch Light, gives us six words each week. And issues an ultimatum. "Use these! Or don't. I'll love you anyway."
Okay, maybe not so much of an ultimatum.
This week's words?
glancedmerrilypurseindifferentbrat and blind
How did I do?

15 comments:

  1. You did great! Any ref would say so!

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  2. Haha! I've never been to a hockey game but have always wanted to go. It's not that big here in the South but I like to watch it. Great story!

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  3. Referees take an awful lot of abuse, but that takes the cake - assault with a whiskey-bottle-laden-purse! Eeek!

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    1. And great job with the words!

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    2. Thanks so much, Jenny! We couldn't believe it when the policeman held the bottle up!

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  4. Great use of your words. Just please tell me that you weren't that lady with the purse . . .

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  5. You did great....excellent use of 'purse'.

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    1. There's always one word that triggers something! Purse did it!

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  6. Wow, that woman is even more aggressive than some of the high school basketball parents this season at my sons games! :)

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  7. Excellent use of the words! I can see Colleen jumping up and down, "are you blind?" ha ha and the woman with the purse, I was expecting the fence to give way and spill her onto the ice.

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  8. You did a GREAT job with this. The lady with the purse---YIKES!

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