I played tennis with Hickman tonight.
I am, admittedly, a mediocre tennis player.
During the second game, I went to hit an overhead.
I missed long, but I did hit it hard.
It sailed past Tim.
And then I saw him, the nice, older, Asian man from the adjacent court.
He was walking behind Tim to get a ball.
I screamed, “Look out!”
He, uh, didn’t.
The ball pelted him in the shoulder.
Tim and I both apologized.
Apparently he didn’t speak English because he just pointed at his shoulder.
It was really very funny, but Tim and I felt we couldn’t laugh.
We both tried to stifle it, we really did.
This resulted in giggling.
Later, we both admitted that we had cried.
Oops
6 Apr 08 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 6 view(s)Categories: uncategorized
Sitty
3 Apr 08 by Tim Martin | 2 Comments | 21 view(s)Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: funny, lindy, oakley, words
Jenn has my car today because I took hers in for 30,000 mile service. That means that the kids get to experience some different music than normal. As I’m sure you all know, I’m pretty hardcore. At this moment, I’m kicking some, well, ok, I have showtunes in my CD player right now. Jenn and I went to see Rent last Friday at TPAC, and so I had been listening to it lately.
So, this is the scene in the car on the way to day school today:
Angel (Rent): New York City.
Collins (Rent): Uh huh.
Angel (Rent): Center of the universe.
Collins (Rent): Sing it, girl.
Angel (Rent): Times are shitty, but I’m pretty sure they can’t get worse.
Lindy: puzzled expression I don’t know what sitty means.
Jenn: pushes skip button quickly
Oakley: No, Lindy, it’s shitty.
Jenn: Sometimes people use words we just shouldn’t use.
We have no indication of whether Oakley knows what shitty means…
Soccer is sort of underway
1 Apr 08 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 46 view(s)Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: aspen, funny, oakley, soccer
Well, we’re in the spring soccer season, which means we’re missing games pretty regularly. Rain seems to be killing us, especially the U7′s, Aspen’s team. We finally got our first games in on Saturday, and both were a lot of fun.
Aspen was her typical responsible self, and the final score of her game was 1-1. She was a big part of that. Frankly, her team has come a long way over the winter (absence makes them better, apparently). There was some passing, and the team was quite effective as a whole.
Oakley had a solid game as well. For her, that meant poking home three goals during the game and colliding with Zoe and a bunch of other girls. If we renamed the team now, we’d be called the Wrecking Balls.
Today’s practice was pretty funny. Among our spectators for practice were a couple of Tennessee Titans (one former, one current). One of them has a daughter on the team. The other you have probably heard of… he’s super freaky. Well, we were having a good time, and then the rains came. We’ve made a point with the girls that we’ll play through anything. That meant that we just kept on playing. Well, let’s say that certain members of our crowd made it to the car pretty quickly. Twenty minutes later, the girls were still playing duck duck goose, wet bottoms and all.