Road Trip!

It has been a while since I have been on a road trip to a Rider game, as I don’t think driving up Albert street counts. But, I used to go on quite a few back when I lived in Saskatoon. Although I went a few times with family, most of the time the trips were with friends and mostly guys and gals I worked with at the Sheraton Cavalier. We would come down on a regular basis and, needless to say, the trips were always a blast. We were just a bunch of 20-somethings getting out and having fun. I recall one story of the many (some of which I have been sworn to secrecy). This story is pretty tame and really only has one highlight, or lowlight I suppose. It was a Sunday game and looking back I cannot remember who we were playing, but my buddies, Darrell and Warren, and I worked the overnight shift at the hotel. When we were finished our shift, we headed out for Regina. This was a number of years ago back when I still drank, and Darrell and Warren also partook in spirits at the time; however, one of us always stayed sober when we went to the games to do the driving. Anyway, we were cruising along on a great Sunday morning headed to watch our favourite football team play, and maybe have a few beverages along the way. Just outside Chamberlain we got pulled over by Canada’s finest. As mentioned, the driver was not drinking, but myself and the other passenger had maybe had a few beers on the road. Yeah, I know, illegal but I am going to share all the same. So, the officer comes up to the car and I'm sure can smell liquor - we were not hammered but you can smell it - and asked, “ Have you boys got any liquor in the car?” Driver Warren in his infinite and sober wisdom looks at the officer and says, “Not much…” Geeze, quick thinking man! “Not much.” A few sobriety tests on the driver later, and most, but surprisingly not all, of our liquor taken away (he left us the one unopened case of beer we had), we were back on our way. For a long period of time the term “Not much” came up at work and on any subsequent road trips.

I am sure many of you have a story as well. Whether it is a trip to Taylor Field or to an away game, if you would care to share, and it does not involve the harming of farm animals, (or, nudity :-)) e-mail me at theracerreport@gmail.com.

If you have not seen the new Rider adds for 07 yet, go here for a preview:
http://www.thephoenixgroup.ca/television.php
Not bad.

And if you are really bored, here are a few pictures from my modeling days:
http://racer91.fotopic.net/

Because she adds to what already could be the most historic weekend ever for women in auto racing, let's take a second to appreciate the "NASCAR stripper"


Today’s lyrics

“Who's gonna pick you up, When You fall?
Who's gonna hang it up, When you call?”

Finally nice out today, which means I have to go cut the grass. Have a great Saturday.