So, the night before last, you got just a picture. There was no post yesterday, so you didn’t get any words to not go along with the no picture. Tonight you get both!
Started out like a normal Friday: breakfast, grocery shop, buy a latte, make a cameo at the coffee clatch, 2-mile walk, lunch, and dinner in front of a baseball game on the TV. Shortly after finishing eating, a text pops up from neighbor Tere: Interested in joining me at the dice game tonight? I hit her back with: I’ll be outside in 9 minutes.
I didn’t know there was a dice game, and I didn’t have anything happening, so I met her outside, and we walked up to the community center. It was a private party; actually, it was a celebration of life for someone. Everyone was all dressed up, and I was in shorts, and Tere was sporting a camo hoodie. As an added plus, everyone there was African-American. Felt a little like in Animal House when the Delta’s are out with dates and stumble into a black roadhouse.
After we backed out and gathered our wits, I asked her, “Where did you get this intel?” Another resident told her it was on Tuesday and Friday nights at 6:00pm. So I called the said resident, and Tere asked what’s up? Her source knew of the private party but didn’t know if the game had been moved or was cancelled. Stymied, we headed back down the street to our respective homes.
One more movie reference: in Star Wars, as Obi-Wan is handing Luke his father’s lightsaber, he says, “Your uncle didn’t want you to have this. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade.” Today, along with the other day’s ride along with her to a car wash, leads me to believe I might have a bit of Luke in me to her Obi-Wan. Just one last movie reference, I promise. This too is from Obi-Wan later in the same movie: “Who is the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows her.”