Calgary Flaimers
Wow… what a week…I got tickets to 2 preseason Calgary Flames games… and I had the time of my life..
Last week went to the Battle of Alberta “Flames vs. Oilers” and who would have thought that I would pick up a dude at an NHL game??? I mean back home I could never get any of my gay friends to go to a Leafs game… but wow
Ok let me tell you the story….
I was at work proctoring some web based training.. which basically means once I show the nurses how to log onto the computers I just sit there and do nothing for 8 hours… mind you it takes them 2 hours to actually log on…
My conversation usually goes like this:
“ ok ladies now we are going to log onto the computers.. so type the word TRAINING into the password field…
the word TRAINING
nope.. just the word training…. The word TRAINING…. No .. just type training
no… just type the word training in the password field… that empty space beside the word password.. type training… no don’t type the word type… just the word training….
Type T R A I N I N G…. nope… type the word training
For the love of buddah… for fucks sake type training..no training…. No training… not the word NO… watch me spell the password on the board… t r a i n i n g”
But once they are logged on its easy… they just hit the next button till they are done..but getting some of them logged on can be like pulling teeth on badger
So I was just sitting there like always chatting away on msn web messenger when I went on line to ticketmaster and found tickets to 2 preseason games…
So I found a str8 friend who wanted to go to the game… and before the game we found a hole in the wall bar that had $2.50 drink happy hour before the game… well $20 latter in gin and tonics.. I was a bit HAPPY… and off we stumbled into the Saddledome…
While in line for some popcorn.. we met tons of people and starting to make friends who were also sloshed… its soo much easier to make friends when everyone is completely trashed… well when we got to our seats we were surrounded by gay friendly dudes who kept buying me beer… which I know is bad to mix with gin…but even before the start of the 1st period we became great friends with everyone in our section… all 30 of us were soo obnoxious.. we were heckling the zamboni driver and the Flames mascot… I couldn’t for the life of me actually follow the what was happening on the ice.. the puck was far too small.. and I must say our section was totally crazy and joking.. it was like we were in a very cold pub.. and hockey just happened to be going on beside us…it was great… the str8 dudes sitting near us kept buying me more beer… everyone was soo friendly… I kept saying.. “ dudes where have you been the past 5 months..” it seems most of them work the oil patches and rarely get into the city..
Anyways… during the second intermission,.. I decided it was my turn to get some beer so I went down to the concession stand and while I was in line.. the place was totally spinning… and I turned around and starting to chat with the college guy behind me.. and we got laughing and talking.. and next thing he takes out his cell phone and asks me for my phone number…and says he is going to take me out for dinner sometime..
I was like WOW.. I cant believe I was totally picked up at an NHL game…the dude was from
Well the game apparently was really good too.. although the Oilers won in OT.. I had a blast…
I cant wait for the next game this Wednesday…and my date from
So this week.. I guess there is no big life lessons.. other than logging on to computers is hard.. and mixing gin and cheap hockey arena beer can actually be fun
Cheers :)
posted by matt @ 12:34 PM
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