Horsesh......oes

I practically got heatstrokefrom playing horseshoes today in the blazing sun for 2 hours. Tania (who owes me a really good beer, not just something on tap, either) convinced me to play at our company picnic. Neither of us had played before, so we recruited some other people we usually eat lunch with to sign up too, and had two of them play against us in the first round so that we would have a shot in the dark. While we were "practicing", two other people tried to give us some pointers, which is probably the only reason we got points later. We won the first round, but it took an hour and finally the guy running the competition took pity on me and said "whoever gets to 15 first wins."

Tania had this little hop-and-make-noise thing going on but I have to admit she was carrying my lame ass in this game. I either landed the shoe only halfway to the other side or it went waaaaaaaaay off course. I was dangerous. I'm sure it was very comical because there were a bunch of people watching. Only some of them brought me cups of water though... I kept track of who didn't. Buggers.

In the second round we played against this guy who took the game waaaaaaaaay too seriously (Ok, he was good and I already admitted I sucked. Happy now?) He and his partner finished us off fairly quickly in the second round. Itwas annoying because, obviously we sucked, but were there to just have some fun, and he was quoting all these rules we didn't even know, and being a general duck about it. He wouldn't even play left handed now & then to give us a fighting chance! Geez.

It was like 93 degrees. I was beet red. It was truly a shining moment in my athletic career.