Kali's Korner

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Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Crazy Hockey Guy

I don't know why I thought of this, but enjoy. The story takes place about two years ago. Julie and I used to live in a duplex at the reservoir. The nearest hot spot for us to go was Buffalo Wild Wings. I love watching sports, and we both loved drinking. What better spot to go than a sports bar.

Julie and I are enjoying our first, second, or third tall beer(I can't remember), when all of the sudden this guy walks in the door. His face is bloody and he is carrying a duffel bag on his shoulder. I look at Julie and I am like "Hell No". I already knew what was going to happen. We were sitting in the bar area at one of the tables that seats like 6 people, and it was just us two. The bar was very crowded, just like every night. What does he do? He comes and sits down right next to us and starts talking. And when I mean talking, he wouldn't shut up. He was a very big and rugged guy. I didn't want to piss him off, especially since he looks like he has already been in about 3 fight.

After a while of him running his mouth, he offers to buy us a drink. I'm like, okay. I never turn down a beer, especially when someone else is paying. It turns out through his rambling, that this guy plays for the Jackson Bandits. The Bandits are a semi pro hockey team here in Jackson. It also ends up, go figure, that he is from Canada. If the accent didn't give that away.

As he continued to talk, I started to feel as though I could start to ask him questions about his night. So, I just did it. I asked him what happened to his face. He said that it was from playing hockey, but his girlfriend did just kick him out of her apartment. They got in a big fight. I was hoping that he didn't beat the poor girl to death. That is why he had his duffel bag with all his clothes in it.

He had been at the table for a while now. I guess he liked our company. He says, "lets have another beer and then go to the Dock". I looked at Julie. She looked at me. We both kinda went, "I guess". You know how that goes. No one wants to say no, so you just go along with whatever. We didn't have anything better to do I guess. So, we finish our beer and start to go to the car. He says, "I guess I will just ride with y'all". I thought to myself, imagine that. I tried to get out of it. I said that we weren't going to stay long, stuff like that. It didn't work. He said that he could find a ride from there.

On the ride, he discussed that I could tell the I.D. checkers at the Dock that I played on the hockey team and I could get in free. I said "How?" He said, "Tell them you play on the team and that you are from Saskatchewan". I said, "Yeah right". He said that it would work. I was feeling pretty good, so I said what the hell. We walked up and they already knew who he was like he lived there or something. He probably did. We walked up and he said, "hey guys, this is my teammate Matt from Saskatchewan". Now I know I don't look like a hockey player, but it worked. They checked my I.D. to make sure that I was of age and let us in. I just knew they were going to look at my I.D. and go, so Matt, you are from Brandon. I thought you were from Canada. They didn't though and it worked like a charm.

As we walked in, it was like 12:00 midnight. We went right to the bar and got another drink and went to find a seat. The hockey guy, I wish I could remember his name, went straight to the dance floor to hang with some people he knew. Thank the lord. He was finally gone. I even think that he tried hitting on Julie before the night was over. Anyway, after he went to the dance floor, me and Julie went to the totally different side of the Dock so he couldn't find us. I think we might of had one more drink and then left.

To the Hockey guy from Canada:

I haven't seen you since that night. I hope that everything is going okay. Julie and I had a great time that night. I hope you did like you said and made it back to Canada.

1 Comments:

At 10:33 PM, Blogger R.J. Morgan said...

that is the funniest story ive read in a while. I guess everyone meets these losers. i thought it was just me.

 

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