- To wear my Piston jersey
- To talk to a stranger named Tina
- To be a good sport
- To NOT BEAT SOMEONE DOWN
- To not talk to much trash
- To not get on the "LOST" train
We had tickets to see the Pistons play the Jazz. These tickets were going to be great, lower bowl, playing against a local team, and most important I get to see all the Pistons in person. We took the Trax (light rail train) into downtown were the Delta Center is located. This situation is always hard for me because I like to tune into other peoples conversations. I have super sonic hearing which allows me to listen to several conversations at the same time (this is my super power) There were a lot of people going to the game tonight and of course we were targets due to the Pistons gear and because we are who we are. My brain was exploding with info, who, what, where, when, why until Tina. Tina sat next to us with her roommate, they were carrying Wal-Mart bags and looked like college students. Tina says "We're gonna sit next to you K?!!!" what are we gonna say the train was full. I knew she was going to be that PERSON who talks to strangers and tries to be your new best friend just like the ones in the check out lane and airplane. I of course am smiling, so excited to see the game, and she says "Your HAPPY!" I say yes of course I am going to see the Pistons play. She replies "I love being happy no thoughts of doubt or destruction" umm ok?
Tina: Who are you?
Me: I am Andrea
Tina: I am Tina
Me: Do you go to the U?
Tina: No LDS Business College
Tina: I love it here I'm from South Carolina
Me: Oh
Tina: I need to get a camera so I can take pictures
Me: You should've bought a disposable one at Wal-Mart
Tina: Well I really need a job first
Me: Well get a job at Wal-Mart
Tina: You could melt people with your eyes if they were lasers if your team doesn't win
Me: Well I really don't want to kill people (foreshadowing)
Tina: It could just be for a little while not permanent
So that's how it started. I wore my jersey so everyone was giving me death stares and making jeers at me about the Pistons.
We arrive at the Delta Center and in we go, our seats are A-W-E-S-O-M-E! As people are walking down to their seats they are saying booo Pistons or you are going to lose, I smile and think, you are going to get your butts kicked. We did not kick their butts and we lost by 2 points it was a great game.
During the fourth quarter the people behind us become extremely annoying. Talking about Yoga, sweating too much, singing the wrong words to the songs playing, remember super sonic hearing. I really am annoyed. Things did not escalate to wanting to beat someone's ass until they started throwing popcorn at us. Ro does the over the shoulder glare and C'mon guys and then everything changes. No longer am I focused on the game now I am thinking about climbing over the seat and punching someone in the face. Then I think, I could get a ticket for that, I wonder how much the ticket is, they said NBA rules are no violence. I feel my skin turning to fire and the anger is right there ready to come out preferably in "hubcap" form (shout out to Marci). I do nothing except listen to them scream and whistle in my ears louder and louder and then the Pistons lose. WHY!!! All I wanted to do is turn around and shove a WIN in their popcorn faces. No instead as we are walking out Ro does something to their coats, which we swore we would not tell anyone. I can tell you this it did give me some satisfaction to know that she did that.
On the ride home we get in the oldest Trax train ever known to man. It is weird has a weird buzzing, lights flickering and a handicapped man. The speaker is loud I mean LOUD and crackly like the warning buzzer in the hatch on LOST. I turn to Ro and say this is like the LOST train. There are all kinds of people and what if this man in his Jazzy Scooter starts to walk again. My brain is on overload clearly I am not thinking straight except we sat for what seemed like 20 minutes at one light and then some people couldn't get off at their stop... Very LOST-ish.
Overall it was a GREAT night, what would life be without Tina's, Popcorn Punks, and the Pistons.
5 comments:
Sweet! That is awesome that you got to see the Pistons. If this was a LOST episode that you were living in then there would be some other story about one of the other characters. I think it was about Tina. She is a regular shopper at Wal-Mart and has actually applied for a job there. However in the interview process she makes some sort of comment about killing people with her laser-beam eyes. The HR person (guess who that would be?) doesn't give her the job because she thinks that this girl is a little unstable. Tina is distraught and decides that she will play the lottery. She picks the numbers 1-01-1-03 in the Daily Six and wins. The odd thing is that this number sequence is actually the final score of the basketball game that the un-named HR person was attending 101 - 103. The moment that this is realized LOST appears on the screen and the show is over. I'm sure that there is more to this story but it can't all be revealed right now.
Aaron
At least it was a great game! Dare I say ... Go Jazz?!?
No I'm sorry please don't melt me with your laser beam eyes I love you very much.
And Mehmot Okur. Hee!
what did ro do to their jackets?
Oh Bear!
Aaron, you're my hero that was an awesome LOST story! I'd watch that episode.
Bear, how did Tina know that when the Pistons lose you feel like burning things? Coincidence...?
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