People can truly amaze me.
So one day, I decided to wear my Red Wings jersey to church. It's hockey. No one cares!
Was I ever so wrong.
The instant I got in the doors, I got bombarded by a guy who was a total Red Wings nut. We got to talk jerseys and stuff, but since church was just getting ready to start, I had to get in and sit down. So that was it.
Well, next week, he recognized me quickly, and we immediately started talking about Jiri Fischer, and the hopes that Steve Yzerman will hoist the cup during what will most likely be his last season. I mean, it was totally the same wavelength.
And I'm not used to that. Where I'm from, hockey is completely a touchy subject. Either no one knows what you're talking about, or they're St. Louis Blues fans. So for me to be a Red Wings fan in an area that knows jack about hockey except that they will blindly put their faith into "the local team" is not a fun situation.
So, this was totally amazing.
So pretty much it's wound up every week us talking hockey. Just what's going on in the league, injury reports, me getting scores from him. I mean, I don't get OLN or FSN, and we didn't order NHL Center Ice, so the most hockey I get is the times when I'm not busy or the speakers on the PC are working so I can listen to NHL Radio and hear the Wings games.
Which, is why I always get the scores from Mike. I had told him the situation, so he gets to talk passionately about hockey, I get to chime in with what I know and my opinions on the goings on, and we just have great talks.
Well, this week at church was one that shocked me.
So, routinely, I go over to Mike to talk hockey again. Great times. Well, he then lets me know that he tapes all the games so he can do a sort of video collage of the highlights of the season every year, and knew that I couldn't see the games until NBC starts picking up the coverage. So, he decided to start handing off the tapes to me to watch the games, and then just let me hand them back at church the next week, in exchange for more tapes. And this starts today, he had two games on tape for me to watch this week!
Wow, this was out of the blue. And I'm certainly thankful. This is certainly something I've missed.
And just when you think that just going out of your way to do something nice for people is completely a taboo thought, something like this happens to remind you that it's not so taboo after all.
So this is definitely going to be fun.
Well, today's agenda, is to watch one of the games on the tape tonight. Wow, I've really missed WATCHING hockey. On top of that, gonna play some Limit Hold'Em later tonight (you can check the results of that effort on my Poker Blog later), and try to bonus clear. Plus, I'm going to start work on a epic writing project that has been in my mind for a couple of weeks. It really stuck out at me as I was sitting in TGI Friday's last night to do, so I must do it. What is it? That, I can't say yet. It's kind of personal to me right now. And it may never get displayed to the general public. Now if it does, I'll let you guys know, and you'll understand why this was of importance for me to write.
If not, then I wrote that above just to remind myself to get on it.
Also, on a side note, come to think about it: This is not the first time that the clothes I have worn to church has brought about great friendships. In '01, I wore a Stavesacre shirt to church, and wound up inadvertantly getting a conversation struck up with some dude who LOVED Stavesacre. We kept talking, and wound up finding out that we had way too many common musical grounds.
Those common grounds, and good musicianship, led me and Jason Barr to start Stick Shift, which in turn allowed him and Mitch Mayberry to start Right-Hand Man.
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