Today it poured rain, wouldn’t you know it. Today is the golf tournament from my old high school, Gordon Tech. Although I’d given up golf fifteen years ago, I agreed to meet with some of the old classmates at dinner.
Deciding not to go, I received a phone call from Danny, a friend from the past. He informed me that although the golfing was cancelled, the dinner was still a go. So I jumped into my car and headed for White Pines, the golf course. Sort of ironic, I thought, to drive to a golf course in driving rain storm.
A mile west of my home the weather cleared and the sun shined brightly. Terrific! Around Ohare Airport Mannheim Road was closed. Aha, I snuck through the rental car area to bypass the trouble spot. At the south end of the airport I decided to get back onto Mannheim. Wrong decision because I stopped at the bottom of the exit ramp unable to proceed.
After half an hour I called one of the guys, Phil – apparently in no pain – who told me the dinner was still on, and there were about ten of the guys who’d wait for me.
Finally I made it to the course where I found ten guys some of whom I had not seen in fifty years sitting around drinking beer – just like the old days. We sat around joking and kidding each other for the next couple of hours.
The end of this week was terrific. A second night with just the guys made the daily candy even sweeter.
Ciao
Running Out of Writing
4 years ago
Saturday was bizarre. I was with my nieces for the Burbank fireworks but Grace is mortified of tornadoes. Didn't help having Wednesday's microburst. We left becausew of the rain, which never came down until 9 PM. Sounds like you had a good time.
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