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6 THE RURAL VOICE
Gisele Ireland
Sports and romance don't mix
There are things in life that are an
ideal mix. Toddlers and Teletubbies
are one. Another that comes to me is
a diamond. any size. to mark an
anniversary. Yet another is a
perfumed
tlower garden,
full of honey
bees. I could
wax lyrical but
1'11 get to the
point. There are
things that don't
mix. Sports and
romance. Our
son-in-law, Carl
fell victim to
this
combination
and is taking
therapy from
Super Wrench
to recover from the trauma.
Our usual Sunday night dinner
was extra festive as we were
celebrating not only a birthday. but
the romance of Valentine's Day. All
during dinner Carl regaled us with a
goal -by -goal replay of the previous
day's hockey game. He was confid-
ent he was coaching a team that
would make the All -Ontario Playoffs.
Our daughter gave an ominous snort
from the other end of the table. We
were all instantly wary. It has been
said that she inherited a lot of my
personality and everyone recognized
that the snapping fire in her eyes and
controlled body language meant a
verbal explosion was imminent.
For dessert, a special cake covered
with marshmallow hearts was
brought out and our daughter began
serving it. She ignored Carl's offered
plate. We all decided we didn't want
to know where the serpent in paradise
was, that is, all except Super Wrench.
He just had to ask. The answer was
short and simple. Carl had forgotten
Valentine's Day. His mind was on
hockey, not hearts. Immediately the
dinner split into two factions. The
women were horrified and the men
sympathetic.
Carl began to defend himself. In
my estimation, the oversight was
indefensible and I let him know it.
The men understood how this
catastrophe could have happened,
There's no
Valentine for
hockey talk
mainly because they'd all been guilty
of such oversights in the past. Super
Wrench used to be on top of that list.
In order to lessen the tension,
Super Wrench told the guys that he
thought all men should have the date
of their wives' birthdays, their
anniversaries, Mother's Day and
Valentine's Day tattooed on their
body somewhere where they would
be reminded of it on a daily basis.
Carl still felt it was unreasonable
to expect him to try and dash out to
the shops between hockey periods
when winning was crucial. The
women disagreed. So. surprisingly,
did Super Wrench.
He told Carl. with true regret in
his voice, he should have called "time
out" and suspended action on the ice
to take care of this matter. "What you
don't realize boys", he advised. "is
that you never give a woman more
ammunition than you can help. This
incident will be forever stored in her
treasured memories, to fling in your
face every time you transgress. A
missed hockey period is tritling
compared to what she'll subject you
to over this." Sage advice from a man
who once thought a power takeoff
shaft was a romantic gift. He's
obviously come a long way.
Carl finally managed to wangle a
slice of cake, minus the ice cream. He
held up his plate to remind his wife of
the oversight. She catapulted a size-
able slice from the other end of the
10 -foot table. Hockey had obviously
sharpened Carl's reflexes because he
managed to "net" it on his plate.
It was agreed by all parties that no
matter what Carl did the next day to
atone for this disaster, it wouldn't
erase the blotch on his marriage. All
he could do was try harder for the
next special occasion. Super Wrench,
along with the other men present,
were giving him helpful hints. The
women were ritling through the
yellow pages looking for tattoo
parlours, and making suggestions as
to what parts of the male anatomy we
would like to see the tattoos appear
upon. None of the men liked my
suggestion.0
Gisele Ireland, from Bruce County, is
an author of several humorous books
on farm life.