tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post8230802042954103095..comments2024-03-25T15:29:41.085-04:00Comments on Kensington Stories: Old Hockey Players Wanted!Ron Lopezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00013432967905835800noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-21690352983862391882009-06-29T23:58:05.980-04:002009-06-29T23:58:05.980-04:00Wow! This is the announcement that I've been d...Wow! This is the announcement that I've been dreading would come one day and now here it is! My worst nightmare come true! You see, I'm a bit older than Ronnie and I've already been through my mid-life crisis...even that seems ages ago! It was that third "old" in old, old, old timers that has me roped in. I'm already into that next stage in life. The one where you start to put on weight, get less active and really don't care anymore if that twenty-something hot babe that works in your office notices that your biceps aren't exactly like popeye the sailor man's guns. I've reached that stage where telling my kids stories about my super jock past is satisfactory enough for me to get a bit excited. My kids are even old enough to just listen whenever I go off about how I used to do this or that in some hockey game 35 years ago or how much I used to bench press and how I roofed one over some goalie's shoulder. You see they are old enough and smart enough to know that if they just shut up and act mildly ineterested in some story they've heard 3 dozen times before, dad will finish the story faster and they can be on their way and they also fullfilled that good deed for the day!<br />Yes Ronnie, thank you soooo much! So now I have to get off my fat out of shape butt, go downstairs and search for enough equipment that has not deteriorated too badly, find one of my kids hockey bags since I don't think my old duffle bag has enjoyed the same longevity as me, try to find/buy a stick with something close to a straight blade (That's the kind of stick I used so well when I was a super jock), probably have to buy roller skates and re-learn how to skate and then haul it all down to Avenue F and worse...have to put it all on! Let's see...errrr...is it shinguards first and then pants or pants first and then shinguards? Is it possible for skates to tie themselves? Yes Ronnie, thank you soooo much! Then again, mayne if I go through the trouble of doing what it takes to get down there...yes, just maybe, if I can circumnavigate the old court...it will be like playing "kick the can" in the old Twilight Zone episode and at least for a little while, we'll fell like kids again! Yeah baby! It's worth the effort. Don't want to end up like that old guy in the episode that didn't try it! As I recall, he was a pretty unhappy fellow!<br />Charlie GiliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-320493860780370722009-06-29T19:25:28.830-04:002009-06-29T19:25:28.830-04:00I'll try to get a release from the Texas Leagu...I'll try to get a release from the Texas League to play! :-)<br />JoshBeckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689846633620237681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-50171984746966136592009-06-25T19:32:07.664-04:002009-06-25T19:32:07.664-04:00I'm there baby!I'm there baby!Petenoreply@blogger.com