Telling Stories

One of the things I like about writing is that no one is there to correct me when I am
telling stories.. For some reason, when I start telling about something that happened, John will correct me if I am not getting all the facts right. I keep telling him if I include ALL the facts, it won't be as interesting and no one will want to listen. He is a scientist and so facts are very important to him but let's be honest, scientists aren't the best storytellers. I don't want you to think that what I write in my blog isn't factual. I have just omitted the uninteresting details and made the interesting details more fun to read about. So that is my disclaimer.

This past week was so crazy. We had our Interform Golf tournament on Wednesday and Thursday and I was with the vendor giving out a new iPad notebook. It was a great gift and everyone was very excited about it but after hearing the same presentation over and over I lost much of my enthusiasm for the gift. The worst thing of all was that the rep had decided it was best to show the notebook with her iPad in it so people could really appreciate all it's benefits. That led to over 36 groups of golfers all saying, "Wow,you are giving us an iPad?" And the amazing thing is every group thought they were the first one to come up with that hilarious comment. I was able to pretend to laugh almost until the end of the tournament but I guess the heat or my hunger pangs got the best of me and when those last few golfers said, "so do I get the one with the iPad?" I looked at them and said, "wow, It is amazing you were the first person who thought of that!"

I know...I need to be a more patient person, but seriously, couldn't someone have come up with something original like, "what's an iPad? Or "I would really like the one that doesn't have an iPad..or "I don't have an iPad so keep your stupid gift". Now that would have been funny!!!
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