A Visit from the Boys of Summer

I went to a Baseball game this afternoon with some of my housemates from last year. It was Blue Jays vs. Tampa Bay. The Jays lost. It was a close game though. Baseball is a very peculiar spectator sport. We all fell asleep at some point during the game. Baseball is just that relaxing. The only thing keeping you from going into a really sound slumber is the fear that a ball could come out of nowhere to clobber you.

It was excellent to see people again and catch up. These fellows are truly among the nicest I've met. There's:

Steve - Super tall. Use to play basketball for Mac. Just finished teacher's college at Western and will be starting a job in Kitchener-Waterloo this September! He got married last summer, and it sounds like that's going pretty well. From the sounds of it, he's going to be quite a hard-ass of a teacher. During one of his placements, he kicked a kid off the team because of his bad attitude. The kid wrote him a note apologizing, and he STILL wouldn't let him on the team! He's also been teaching sex ed to grade 10's.

Zeb - Currently studying Social Work at Mac. He just got engaged maybe 2 weeks ago. The wedding is at the end of the year.

Dave - Currently studying physiotherapy at Mac. Just last week, he just broke up with a girl I set him up with. Ah well.

Apparently, while Steve and Dave were working at a summer camp a few summers back, they met a girl without the sense of satiety. Like, she was physically unable to feel full. Anyways, Steve found this out, and organized an eating contest between this girl (who apparently is a wee pixie of a thing) and Dave.
Not only did Dave lose the contest, he threw up twice. To top it all off, the girl ate an apple when the contest was over. egads.

I also learned that both Steve and Zeb talked to their then girlfriends' parents before popping the question. Zeb said that he had some sort of elaborate speech planned, but got nervous and so ended up saying something along the lines of "So I've been dating your daughter for awhile now..."
Either way, I think it's a very nice gesture to talk to the parents. The only thing is that you'll look a bit sillier if she were to turn you down.