I don't have change for that! Don't you have anything smaller?!
That's what the guy at
King Soopers said to me tonight when I was checking out tonight. I just stopped by on my way home from practicing and went through the u-scan. It said to pay cashier if I was paying with cash. All I had was a 100 dollar bill on me. I was trying to break it. In a very annoyed tone, he said, "I don't have change for that! Don't you have anything smaller?!" To which I replied, "Well, if I did, I would be giving it to you."
I just used my debit card instead. What a crabhead!
I just got back from a tournament in Austin this weekend. I finished 13th-15th out of 69 players but I had SO MUCH FUN!!! The next one is not until March 3. I can't wait!!!
Haven't seen many deer lately. I was seeing them those following few nights after I first blogged about it but they haven't been around lately. I hope they're doing well.
Anything, I have a new pool coach. He's really incredible! Other than that, nothing else new is going on really.
Oh Deer...
That's right. That's "deer" - not "dear."
Oh, and by the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Back to my
deerful evening...
Last night, around 1a.m., as I was on my way home, about two miles from the house,
turning left onto Hampden from a (typically busy) South-bound Parker Road (link to aerial photo is obviously not updated because there's no snow in it), I noticed something on the side of the road.
You see, a few years ago, that intersection was changed so that the left-turners could just turn directly under Parker Road without having to interfere with Parker Road traffic. The West side of the street is still the very edge of
Cherry Creek State Park but this is a bit of a short-cut to our house.
Anyway, if you check out the
aerial photo, you'll notice a white car directly in the center of the photo. That's about where I was. As I approached
Hampden, there was an enormous deer standing on the left side of the road. He
must've escaped from the state park. As I slowed down to pass it, I gazed
wondrously as it stared back at me. We were both deers in headlights. He only had one antler and he was taller than my car. I don't know for sure that it was a "he" but I hate calling it an "it."
I pulled over at the next stoplight to report it. I didn't want some drunken
buffoon to mow him down when he decided to stroll back to the park. In the time that it took me to call it in, call
Chisolm and excitedly tell
him all about it, turn around to go back to take a photo, this deer had multiplied! When I got back to it to take this picture, there were about 15-20 of them. The big guy had invited his entire family and neighbors to join him.
The blurry photo doesn't do it justice but there were about three more crossing the road and another handful that didn't get in the shot. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before. It was like a surreal Hitchcock movie. Crazy!
I called back to report the rest of them and they were pretty amazed too at the station and said someone was on their way to take care of it. I went to the grocery store and just couldn't resist driving by one more time. Within the 20 minutes it took me to buy five peach
yogurts and return to the scene, they were all gone. In fact, there was no trace at all of hoof tracks or any sort of
commotion. It's like they were never even there at all. I pulled out my camera to almost expect to see them all
disappeared from my photo but their memory was still there and captured by
my new camera.
When I arrived home, my mom had stopped by the house to deliver another deer. Vegas got this
squeaky reindeer stocking for Christmas and within 45 minutes had removed most of the stuffing and chewed up the
squeaker. It has since been on my mom's to-do list and she finally did it. We salvaged the stuffing but the
squeaker no longer
squeaked. Nonetheless, Vegas doesn't seem to mind.
Yes, our tree is
STILL up. We're not taking it down until Tuesday. We put it up late this year and I'm trying to prolong Christmas for as long as I can...
Anyway, I have a new pool coach. He's the best EVER!!! Going to our friends' Robbie &
Steph's wedding tomorrow. Well, it's not a real wedding. They're just having a small get-together at their place and making it official. Seems to be the way to go. They're just perfect for each other.
