Amazing things afoot

I didn’t mean to make a pun there, leading you to believe this was yet ANOTHER foot post. It’s not, promise. I’ll only say that the foot’s improving, and that it reminded me to post this comment from Stuart some time ago:

Congrats on the foot! Getting better, one step at a time, I see! Looks like everything’s going tibia okay! Can’t wait to see you fully heel.

I’m sorry I just couldn’t help it. I guess I better leg it now.

He may have heard me groaning all the way out in Malaysia.

Nope, it’s something else even MORE amazing than puns, if you can believe it.

Hubby and I went to bar trivia with some friends last night. Beforehand, I thought it would be so great if there was a question that was perfectly tailored for me. I was thinking along the lines of: Who is the song “Dirty Frank” about (Jeffrey Dahmer, btw), or something involving the name Mookie Blaylock, as examples of something truly random that only I, being the freak that I am, would know.

Then a question began: “Which band’s 1991 album…”

I gripped by friend’s arm. “Oh my gosh!” I said.

“Was named for the jersey number of Mookie Blaylock?”

I literally screamed, not loudly, but enough that people at the closest two tables looked.

A bit later, the guy running the game came over, seeing as how our answer got turned in via phone so quickly. “You know this one, huh?”

“This is my band!!” I threw my arms up in triumph.

“No one else has gotten it yet.”

Turns out, however, those two tables nearby also got it. I didn’t shout the answer, but the song the guy played, “Even Flow,” as the interlude while people discussed possible answers, was not only by the band, but from the album in question. Onlookers may have pieced that together by the way I was dancing in my seat. [Dang it.]

Album cover for Pearl Jam’s “Ten.”

Still, I just couldn’t get over it. It was too amazing. I texted a friend who knows what a nutter I am. She responded: “Almost doesn’t seem fair.”

How crazy and amazing is that?!

In the end, we came in 2nd place out of 13 teams. We would have lagged in 3rd, as we had been prior to the final question, if Hubby hadn’t pulled out of his brain, almost at the last second, that W on the periodic table stood for Tungsten.

Tungsten!

Our prize was a gift card to the brewery, which happens to be our favorite, so we can go back and play again another night.

Anything amazing or trivial happen to you lately?

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