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September 2005 by b1bobLeave a Comment
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 Dulles airport and the
underground moving
sidewalk by b1bob
Fast forward two days. On 15 October, Matt and Urszula brought me along to show them Mount Vernon, but, more importantly, to help them get their luggage back and to see that Northwest/KLM honoured their compensation and gave them cash instead of a cheque (to foreign nationals with no bank account stateside, a cheque is like Confederate money). What would I have done if they tried to stiff my friends? I would have pitched a hissy (got real mad and caused a bad scene), that's what. Getting to Dulles from Mount Vernon was very confusing even with printed directions, but we did. It turned out to take longer getting there (and later to Arlington) than it did to reclaim their lost luggage and get their compensation in order. It was this detour (and the Northern Virginia traffic thereafter) that made me miss my train, but because I missed my train, I later made my first VT meeting and had a memourable night with the group at the Sheraton National. Leave a Comment
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 Dakota's by b1bob
All 4 or us packed like sardines into the cab of a standard sized pickup truck. My bags were still in Wolfgang's room and all of us were soaking wet. Hot chocolate (which Bob made), ice for my knee (which Chris put together), and a hot shower made me feel a thousand percent better. Since Bob is only a little smaller than I am, he let me wear his sweatshirt, socks, and pants whilst mine were getting washed and dried at the laundromat. Because of my legendary gluttony, buttoning the pants was like slamming a revolving door. I finally did it because I couldn't very well sit around in my Fruit-of-the-Looms (underpants). We waited for our laundry to come through before we went to supper. Our clothes were so thoroughly saturated that we had them make another go.
K.B., Chris, Bob, and I piled into K.B.'s slightly larger Ford F-250 pickup truck. We decided to take supper at Dakota's in the neighbouring town of Christiansburg. We waited 30 minutes to be seated and 7 seconds shy of 48 minutes to be served. They must have had grow the vegetables as well as slaughter and prepare the meat. K.B. and I had the New York strip steak (well done) with baked potato and salad. Chris had Steak Santa Fe (complete with guacamole and sour cream), and Bob had the beef and chicken fajitas together with chili. Bob kept making cricket noises and I felt like doing unto him as I do unto the real thing (hitting him with my size 12 shoe; 11-1/2- U.K.; size 46-1/2 Continental Europe). I thought I had dodged the bullet of being taken out to an impromptu dinner and given a free dessert at my birthday (8 October). No such thing. I stepped away from the table and there was a piece of chocolate cake with whipped cream and chocolate sauce and ice cream waiting. The gang joined the waiter in singing happy birthday. Ironically, 14 October was National Dessert Day. I ate it despite being full from supper and fears that the button on those pants I borrowed from Bob would pop off, bust an overhead light, ricochet, land on top of someone's dessert and being mistaken for one of those odd-coloured maraschino cherries. Luckily, that didn't happen so I could leave with my head held high without my hands held low. Leave a Comment
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 Worsham Field: Blacksburg,
Virginia by b1bob
The game against the Akron Zips (in the yellow and white with a kangaroo for a mascot) started out on the right foot- well, kind of. We made a 6-point touchdown, but missed the extra point. From my angle it looked like it was good. It was clear to me the referees were biased in favour of Akron to start with. At every touchdown, they fire a cannon to capture the attention of those who weren't paying attention or drunk. We made another touchdown, tried for and failed to get the 2-point conversion. We scored 5 more unanswered touchdowns with the extra point made making the score at halftime 47-0. I decided to make a run for the border. The cuisine de Taco Bell is passable, but for a glutton of my stature, lasts about maybe 2 minutes. By the fourth quarter, we had a frog strangler (a real strong rain). I have never been so wet due to Ma Nature since the time Luc and I were caught at King's Dominion when it came up a cloud. The rain caused Virginia Tech players to lose grip on the ball and cause the other team to score 27 points. However, we scored 30 in the second half. Our final score with 7 minutes and 46 seconds was 77-27. That is ironic because my telephone number was 746-7727 at that time.
On the way to Bob's blue Chevrolet truck, a gust of wind blew off the cap Bob gave me. As I reached for it before it blew to Roanoke, I slipped on the wet grass. Both feet came out from under me and I twisted my right knee (to this day, I still feel it during cold, damp days). I limped back to the truck with Bob, Chris, and K.B. Leave a Comment
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