..…I love to watch the people.
*I saw a man with loads of tattoos who was wearing a tank
top in order to show them off. The front
of the tank top had the message “Tatooed and Employed.”
*Apparently if you get at least 4 beers, you can get a
bucket of ice. I won’t ever know for
sure, because I don’t drink even one beer, much less four. I can’t stand the smell and figure the taste
can’t be much better.
*Two generous applications of sunblock make ones arms so
slippery that they skid off the chair armrests.
*Some families go to great lengths to include their special
needs family members in baseball outings.
I saw two children with Down’s syndrome.
One of them was a toddler and slept in the mother’s arms most of the
time. That little girl had two older
sisters. I wondered if the couple had a
third pregnancy hoping for a son.
Instead of a son, they got a special needs daughter. I wondered how they were coping with
this. Some people who do fine, but
others would struggle.
*I also saw a middle-aged man with cerebral palsy and an
elderly man who had had a stroke. Both
came in wheelchairs. I hope the family
of the man who had had a stroke had put some sunblock on him before they came,
because he had a very fair complexion and it looked to me like the sun was
bothering him. Both of those families
ended up leaving early.
*The person who sang the national anthem was a very young
girl….I would guess not as old as ten, and she had an amazing voice for a kid.
She sang a cappella, and I thought she had pitched the song too high and was
never going to make the top notes, but she did.
She did hit a few clunkers and notes she had to slide in to, but she
ended in the same key she started in and was pretty impressive.
*The lemonades were huge….probably 32 ounces. They cost $6 and a refill in the same cup was
$3. I certainly did not expect to need a
refill, but we were sitting in the hot Florida sun, and I drained the cup and
got a refill.
*In the same category….as a wimpy northern girl who didn’t
have a hat along, I purchased a straw hat in the gift shop, and it was worth
every penny of the $25.
*The staff at the Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers is extremely
congenial. We didn’t run in to one
cranky person.
*We chatted some with a very pleasant young couple from
L.A. She was originally from Minnesota
so she was rooting for the Twins.
*There was a guy behind us quoting Donald Trump. I wanted to turn around and say that I hoped
he didn’t believe everything Donald Trump says, but I refrained.
*Two ladies of my vintage were laughing about a woman a few
rows ahead of us who stood up and seemed to be adjusting her undies through her
dress. They said she must not know we
were all watching her. I said that I
figured she knew and didn’t care….she thought she would never see any of us
again anyway.
*In spite of all of these “people watching” observations, I
do know that the Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Socks 7 to 4 and that this
was the last spring training game. There
were some great plays, and also a mess up by the 3rd base coach who
turned a runner back to second believing that a fly ball had been caught….it
hadn’t…the ball was caught on a bounce and the runner would have been safe at
third.
*I am not a big baseball fan, but I totally enjoyed myself.
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