Today was an odd day. Now I know several of you are thinking, “Mr. Don”, has an odd day almost every day, and that is kind of true. This Friday was even odder. It all started like this.
Friday morning at 7:50am, that is when Gabi arrived here and I was going to take her to school. That is normal and not considered as unusual. Upon her arrival, we were informed that we could go to her school and observe the, “Fun in the sun day”. We were told Gabi’s group would be at field 5. We had no idea where field #5 was at.
I took the Gabi to school and returned home to get dressed properly, “Clean jeans and shirt”. We were in a big hurry to get there not having any pre-warning, I did not take any folding chairs, and I did not take any sun block. All the kids were playing soft ball so we watched two games, all the while our old senior bodies had to standup. It was a long walk from the car to the ball fields.
We returned home and rested a while before getting dressed again to go to a graduation at Baylor. With clean clothes on we headed out. We were about ¾ of a mile away from Baylor’s stadium when we ran into stop, and sometime go traffic. It took about 20 minutes for us to get close to the stadium, still in mostly stopped traffic. We were seeing young people with their caps and gowns on, getting out of cars both in front and behind us, and either walking or running to the stadium.
I decided to get into a different lane and not go to the graduation! We drove past the stadium and traffic was backed up on every road and the parking lots appeared to be full. We did not go, but we plan to go to the party this afternoon.
Unbelievable traffic, not good for senior persons!
Don Ford
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