How to jinx yourself
May. 25th, 2007 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccNetball started again this week (except for the Wed night team, which started last week.) Mon was great, we all turned up, discovered that someone had turned the heating down and it was now winter, ran around frantically trying to keep warm, and won the game much to our surprise. Maybe winter is our season! I personally thought we were four down, but then again I did contribute a grand total of one goal to our score of 21. My new strategy is passing to the person who can shoot. It seems to be working better.
Wed was good too. We all ran around frantically (the cold again, and we played like crap last week and were overcompensating) and managed to win reasonably convincingly.
Thursday was a pain. First off three of the team are out injured - one broken finger, one hamstring and one bad haematoma from falling off his bike. Note to non-Victorian cyclists: tram lines can be lethal. So that left us with three guys, three girls. By Wed evening I knew I had all three girls and two of the guys had replied. So I started a bit of a phone around to get a fill in or two, and by the end of the evening had two women who'd agreed to fill in for me, coincidentally both with the same name. Hey, it makes it easier for everyone else to remember.
Thursday morning I headed off bright and chirpy in the knowledge that I had a full team.
About 10am my phone went off. It was one of the fill ins. Terribly sorry, but will have to pull out for work reasons.
Crap. Started e-mailing around again.
Midday I had a realisation that I had, in fact, not heard from one of the guys. I texted him. Maybe I had a full team?
1pm he texted back - sorry, can't play, am on call. Bloody medicos.
Frantic e-mailing ensued.
By 4pm I was at the point of texting everyone I'd ever played with whose number I still had stored on my phone (a surprising number, actually - be warned, if you ever fill in for me and give me your phone number I may text you in a panic about three years later.)
5pm a woman I play with on Wednesdays contacted me and said she was happy to play. I had a full team!!!
On the tram on the way home I thought I'd better text one of my normal players, as she doesn't check her e-mail often and it was entirely possible that she'd missed the notification of venue change during the week.
And got a text back: "Really sorry, forgot about netball. Am at work, can't get there in time."
AARRGGHH!!!
This was the point that I decided the universe did not want me to have a full team that night.
Went home. Got changed. Picked up my original fill in (the one that hadn't bailed.)
Drove down to Richmond. Walked into the venue. Was met by my Wed night fill in, and one of the normal players. And the competition manager.
"Oh your competition forfeited - sorry about that."
!
!!!
!!!!!
Obviously I was wrong. The universe actually didn't want me to play netball at all that night.
So then I waited for all the other players to rock up, told them the news, gave them the drinks cards the manager had given me as compensation for the (bloody) late notice, drove back north, dropped off my fill in, went home and had tea. I can't wait to see my phone bill next month.
On the other hand, my teams are 3/3 this week, which will probably not happen again all season. And now I have a week to find a fill in.
Wed was good too. We all ran around frantically (the cold again, and we played like crap last week and were overcompensating) and managed to win reasonably convincingly.
Thursday was a pain. First off three of the team are out injured - one broken finger, one hamstring and one bad haematoma from falling off his bike. Note to non-Victorian cyclists: tram lines can be lethal. So that left us with three guys, three girls. By Wed evening I knew I had all three girls and two of the guys had replied. So I started a bit of a phone around to get a fill in or two, and by the end of the evening had two women who'd agreed to fill in for me, coincidentally both with the same name. Hey, it makes it easier for everyone else to remember.
Thursday morning I headed off bright and chirpy in the knowledge that I had a full team.
About 10am my phone went off. It was one of the fill ins. Terribly sorry, but will have to pull out for work reasons.
Crap. Started e-mailing around again.
Midday I had a realisation that I had, in fact, not heard from one of the guys. I texted him. Maybe I had a full team?
1pm he texted back - sorry, can't play, am on call. Bloody medicos.
Frantic e-mailing ensued.
By 4pm I was at the point of texting everyone I'd ever played with whose number I still had stored on my phone (a surprising number, actually - be warned, if you ever fill in for me and give me your phone number I may text you in a panic about three years later.)
5pm a woman I play with on Wednesdays contacted me and said she was happy to play. I had a full team!!!
On the tram on the way home I thought I'd better text one of my normal players, as she doesn't check her e-mail often and it was entirely possible that she'd missed the notification of venue change during the week.
And got a text back: "Really sorry, forgot about netball. Am at work, can't get there in time."
AARRGGHH!!!
This was the point that I decided the universe did not want me to have a full team that night.
Went home. Got changed. Picked up my original fill in (the one that hadn't bailed.)
Drove down to Richmond. Walked into the venue. Was met by my Wed night fill in, and one of the normal players. And the competition manager.
"Oh your competition forfeited - sorry about that."
!
!!!
!!!!!
Obviously I was wrong. The universe actually didn't want me to play netball at all that night.
So then I waited for all the other players to rock up, told them the news, gave them the drinks cards the manager had given me as compensation for the (bloody) late notice, drove back north, dropped off my fill in, went home and had tea. I can't wait to see my phone bill next month.
On the other hand, my teams are 3/3 this week, which will probably not happen again all season. And now I have a week to find a fill in.
