Okay, so ... last night - Gather
round, kiddos, it's storytime! - I'm sitting in the press box of a racetrack at
the end of a race when this lady walks in from the adjacent track office suite
and asks if I work for the track. I tell her sorry, but no, I'm just here as a
media member. Undeterred, she says "Okay, great!" and thwacks a giant
cash bag down next to me. "I need to go now," she explains, "please
make sure they get this." She turns to leave but quickly turns right
around, presumably having just realized that giving a random stranger the bag
with all the ticket sales money was not tremendously wise.
Okay, or not. Before I can
explain to her that I'm not particularly comfortable assuming the liability of
such a responsibility, she bursts out of the press box yelling loudly "I
need to get to Best Buy before 9 PM!" As she descends the stairs to go
outside, I can still hear her yelling "I NEED TO GET TO BEST BUY!"
Track promoter walked in ten
minutes later, I give the bag to him. Story over. OH WAIT, it's about to get
weirder.
Another lady walks into the
press box while I'm packing up and she's carrying half a birthday cake. So she
asks me how my night was and I tell her it was really good and in turn ask if
whoever it was had a nice birthday. She says something along the lines of
'Yeah, Ginny had a really great time." And I reply with something like 'Ginny?
Oh that's interesting. My sister's birthday is today too. And her name is
Jenny.'
Well this lady gets kind of
excited by this and puts the cake down next to my work station and says
"Here, give the rest of this cake to her! I don't want it." I was
going to politely point out that I won't see my sister before her Thanksgiving
Break and also that giving her a half-eaten cake with the message 'Happy
Birthday Ginny' written on it might convey the message that her brother is a
glutton who doesn't actually know how to spell her name, but - you guessed it -
this lady leaves the press box in the same rush as the previous woman. Perhaps
she has a deep aversion to cake. Or maybe she too needed to get to Best Buy
right away. Who knows?
Anyway, long story short, I now
possess half of a complete stranger's birthday cake.
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