Saturday, September 17, 2011

Celebrating Sports Day in Canada

Let it be know that I have excellent table manners. I know which forks to use, when I get to the bottom of the soup bowl I tip it away from me and every now and again my pinky rises when I take a drink. On the other hand I have been known to drip even when being extra careful. It happens. Sadly on Friday it happened while wearing a borrowed signed Jarome Iginla Flames jersey.


Friday September 16 is Sports Day in Canada. As part of the social committee we showed our support and got the office to wear a jersey of their choice to work. I used to own some Calgary Hitmen t-shirts when I was a teenager but since then they have gone the way of the donation box. In order to be part of the action a co-worker offered to bring an extra jersey for me. I was quite nervous when I saw the signature on the back. Who in their right mind would voluntarily give me a signed jersey! The double whammy is that the jersey is white.

My birthday is coming up so some coworkers decided to take me out for lunch. We continued wearing jersey's to spread the spirit of sports day. I was extra careful during lunch. On a side note, if you have not been to WURST yet go now and have the jager schnitzel. There were some drips but I managed to make them land on the plate. We left and I was free of extra spots!

The second place you must go is CRUFFS - House of cream puffs. My boss bought me a mini puff filled with chocolate hazelnut. I could hardly wait.

Shellie Moment: I held the cream puff in my hand as we walked back to car and head back to office. Like I said, I could hardly wait. I figured being a mini cream puff it would be relatively safe and employ my two bite technique. I figured it would all be safe. I forgot this was me. One bite and half the filling dropped onto the jersey. I stopped dead in my tracks. There were no hockey fights yet but I was about to start one.

When we arrived back at the office I slinked back into my cubicle so she couldn't see. I told her what happened through the wall and she said no big deal. I may or may not have fibbed a little bit about the amount that dripped. I went over to show her and put on the best puppy dog face I could but that did not stop the shock that came over her face. "That is not a little! That is actually really bad".

I got a large chunk out, but you can still see it :(
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  1. StaceySeptember 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM

    To be fair, while I didn't have to leaned you the jersey, you also didn't have to wear it out for lunch...just sayin'. Because I would like to point out that I successfully wore that jersey for several season before retiring it without getting chocolate on it. And you know how I feel about chocolate.

    Its all good though. Ultimately, lending it out is also accepting that there was a small possibility of it get spilled on. Little did I know just how much that possibility would be multiplied by your magnificent handling skills. Lesson learned. I know you didn't eat that cream puff with malicious intent. And you did a great job getting it out. The fact that you are so nice also helps. If I didn't like you it probably would have been a whole other story.

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