I coached this guy's son in T-ball for a couple years. He helped me at practice few times. Granted, this was about 10 years ago. And his kids and my kids played hockey against each other and on the same team with each other as recently as three years ago.
I saw him yesterday. He was running in the 97-degree heat (Hey, Canadians!! I'd put that in Celsius, but I can't remember when I should subtract the 32, before or after multiplying by 5/9ths.) I have never seen him running before, but I think he is the kind of person who would run when it's 97 just to say that he did. It doesn't matter that he doesn't run on a regular basis.
He is the kind of guy who, when I have said hello to him at the store or on the street, he has ignored me. He has not acknowledged me at all. He acts like he doesn't know me.
I don't understand.
I saw him on the way to the doctor to get another shrink. He asked me about exercising. I told him that I did some running a couple hours before. He asked me if I was crazy, confirming my suspicion about the guy with the T-ball son; and I told him that I was kidding. He asked me whether I was eating. How was I supposed to answer that question?
"Like am I supposed to actually tell you that I had Ruffles potato chips and Diet Mountain Dew for breakfast?"
And he replied, "Yeah. So no appetite problems? You like eating?"
"Uhhh, ... yeah. I have been trying to lose some weight, though. Is that okay?"
We went on to other topics of interest, you know, "issues," in the psycho-vernacular, delving deep into my psyche, I guess. We talked about a lot of things, but I was careful not to tell him about one major thing.
He didn't need to know about that particular problem I have with browsing through the Levenger's catalog and website. Well, I suppose that browsing is not the real problem. The real problem is that the package from Levenger's was delivered by Federal Express (And yes, Fed Ex can get costly, but I figure that the plane with Tom Hanks on it went down and another crash isn't likely.) I got a nice pen ... and a couple other things. I also got a couple people birthday gifts and other stuff to keep around as potential gifts. As one of our blog friends said, "Christmas will be here before you know it." And that is a good excuse to browse through the catalog that came with the stuff that was delivered.
And I still have stuff stashed away for gifts from the last order.
Weird.
Posted by Bill at August 22, 2003 01:21 PMOMG you shop for Xmas gift at Levenger?? (struggling to get on that list..;d )
My catalog came the other day and for the first time ever, I tossed it in the garbage without looking at it. I truly did not trust myself... until next month
Posted by: Charlene at August 22, 2003 07:45 PMJust FYI: C=(9/5)F + 32 ... ;)
Posted by: trili at August 23, 2003 09:47 PMno, wait, no it's not. Let's make that:
F=(9/5)C + 32 and C=(F-32)*(5/9)
Sorry.
Posted by: trili at August 23, 2003 09:49 PMthat damn levengers could be a bad habit fast.
Posted by: Kathy Howe at August 23, 2003 10:49 PMor in assembly:
mov bl, faren
sub bl, 32
mov al, 5
mul bl
mov bl, 9
div bl
mov celc,al
it's 3:33am. sorry.
Posted by: Matt at August 24, 2003 03:49 AMThanks for the reminder - must start my Xmas shopping soon.
Posted by: Michelle at August 24, 2003 05:01 PMRob shops ahead and stashes them away. We useually find them a couple of years later
Posted by: Anji at August 25, 2003 12:30 PM