Football follies

On Black Friday, some people go shopping. Josh and our high school friends play football at the town's rec center fields.

This year, they played for about five hours in the freezing cold. When Josh came to pick me up, he was in so much pain, not from the lactic acid that resulted from all the running, but some moron who was playing too hard.

Normally, they play with the understanding that it's just two-hand touch. This strange guy who showed up for the game wore football gear and cleats, making it easier and safer for him to play rough. Apparently, this guy was so huge and intimidating that some people were afraid of him. At the very end of the game, Josh took the worst hit of the day from this strange guy, landing the hardest on his tailbone and the back of his head.

In the car, Dave and Josh talked about this football crazed moron who didn't realize that he was the only one with the appropriate gear for playing hard. Clearly, this fellow has played a little too much football and taken too many hits to the head, as he has no common sense left at all. A lot of people had issues with the crazy dude, so I asked them if anyone had taken the fellow aside to let him know about their rules. Of course, none of them had spoken to the football nut.

Maybe they were scared of him.

Allow me to shed some light on the matter...

Josh and I were riding the bus home to NJ today. To pass the time, I whipped out my handy-dandy Sudoku book. We worked on puzzles together.

Aww... how sappy.

It was getting dark, so I figured I'd turn on my individually portioned overhead light. I hit the button really quickly and looked down at the puzzle book, wondering why it was still hard to see the numbers.

Josh

[Looks up - the light didn't turn on]

Umm...

Dora

I was wondering why the book was still hard to read!

Josh

[Shakes his head]

You've just reached a new low

Dora

Are you proud of me?

My ice cream saga

When I was younger, I loved Häagen Dazs's "Caramel Cone Explosion." It was this delicious caramel flavored ice cream with caramel swirls and big pieces of chocolate dipped sugar cone. It was incredibly yummy.

And then I was saddened when they discontinued the flavor. They created Dulce de Leche soon afterward, but it wasn't as good without the chocolate dipped sugar cone pieces. Why did Häagen Dazs have to mess with something that was already great?

I was pleasantly surprised when Häagen Dazs released Caramel Cone and I found it at my local CVS. It was just as I remembered Caramel Cone Explosion. Josh and I were in the same CVS a couple days later, when I was down to half a pint. I asked Josh if he thought I should get another pint and he told me it was ridiculous because I still had some.

It figures that CVS had a sale on ice cream and Caramel Cone was wiped out. It wasn't even among the flavors when the case was restocked. Every time I went to CVS, I walked to the case, hoping that it would be there, but was disappointed for almost 2 months.

Lo and behold! I went to CVS the other day and there was a whole row of Caramel Cone! Guess who bought three pints? I told Josh not to touch them because of their rarity. He usually doesn't like my ice cream flavors anyway. He's more of a mint chocolate cookies and cream cookie dough kind of guy.

But he was a jerk this evening and opened up a new pint despite my wishes to ration out the BEST ICE CREAM FLAVOR EVER. Then he called me a bitch for not letting him have the pint.

I wonder sometimes if he's eating my ice cream because he knows it bothers me or because he actually likes it.

The most trivial of pursuits

Before our Wallace and Gromit viewing, we had to wait for all the guests to arrive last Sunday. We passed the time by playing the 90s edition of Trivial Pursuit.

My team got a question asking which Middle Eastern dignitary's death was attended by Clinton, Bush, Ford, and Carter. I was thinking of Israel's Yitzhak Rabin, although I didn't remember his name at the time. Somehow, my teammates and I came up with the name "Israel Sharon."

The guys said, "You combined Israel, a country, with Sharon, who's still alive."

Eh, our team won in the end anyways.