A Little Bit of Scary

Soccer day should have been Tuesday. Well, it shouldn't have, then it should have, and then it wasn't. This season has been particularly wet on Tuesdays. As a result, we haven't had a whole lot of soccer this season. Tuesday should have been one of the make-up games, but it (shock!) rained. I learned after the fact that it actually did more than that. However, the tale is a long and winding adventure that began early in the morning...

I don't think I slept well Monday night. I arose early to the sound of birds and rain, which happens in the Spring. We are fortunate in that we have a tree in our yard, but unfortunate in that birds, the winged bullhorns that they are, like to live in trees.

I got to work tired. While driving in the rain, all I could think in my tired brain was, "I'm glad it's raining. Maybe we won't have soccer today."

The sky cleared a little later that morning.

The day wore on, and I thought heavily about soccer. I ultimately decided that I was too tired to go, and that the rain had resulted in the day turning into a really warm, humid, terrible day. Perhaps it wasn't that bad, but it felt that way to me. Just prior to leaving work, I decided not to go to soccer. I just wanted to relax.

I got home, tried out Wii Fit for the first time ever, looked outside, and saw sun. I turned away for a short time, looked again, and the sky had turned as black as night. Electricity lit the evening like a brilliant chandelier. Suddenly, I was glad about my decision. I had not asked the girl to drive all that way for nothing.

That was not, however, the biggest surprise of the evening. What surprised me was the potential that the evening had to do harm. I learned later that, on the very field on which we were to play, lightning struck the bleachers. This elemental electrical discharge hurled them twenty feet back into the street. These, the very same bleachers on which the girl would have been sitting had we been waiting to see whether the game would have happened at all.

I'm lazy and she's alive. I'm lucky and she's alive. Perhaps the greatest disaster avoided this year...