A good weekend, Bowling, and Wheel of Fortune

I have had a good weekend up to this point. I went home to see the rents on Friday. I dropped off the clothes I'm giving away to them because they are going to take them up to my Cousin's to give to some needing kids in her classroom. On Saturday night, I went to see my friends Adam and Suzie in Evansville. I went to college with them, and I also went to HS with Suzie. We ate dinner with another college friend Sara and her little son (Sarah's husband had to work), and another friend of Adam's named Dave. After we ate, we all went bowling. At the ally, we ran into another friend from college named Ermil.

Dave was an interesting character. First, he was a Minnesota Vikings fan (insert puking sound here). He was a pretty good bowler, and even had a Vikings bowling bag and a Vikings bowling ball used exclusively for spare attempts. I gave him a hard time all night for it of course since I am a big time Bears fan. At one point, I was facing an 8-10 split, and I asked him if I could borrow his Vikings spare ball. Knowing that I had no chance of picking up the split, I just took the Vikings ball and placed it in the gutter and slowly rolled it down to the end as a show of my protest to a sub-human football team.

It turns out that in 1987, Dave was on the show Wheel of Fortune. He had the taping with him of his appearance and we all watched it after we went bowling. HE COMPLETELY DOMINATED, WINNING ABOUT $37,000!!!! Despite his good fortune, there were plenty of laughs from the show. First, his outfit was, shall we say, interesting. Comprising of a white sweater vest, a tie, what could only be described as gray plaid pants, and gray Nikes. Next, when showing off a watch that was a prize, he kissed the hand of Vanna White (and he was quite eager to do so). But, and the end of the day, what can you say...he won $37,000 and will always have an interesting story to tell if he goes out to pick up women. As a side note, the commercials we saw on the tape were super funny. One featured Demi Moore in a Diet Coke commercial (Diet Coke used to have one calorie, now it has zero calories...big improvement). All I could think during the commercial is how her future husband was nine at the time of the commercial's shooting.