November 15, 2004
An Expensive Raffle
"Yes!", my son exclaimed having realised that he was holding the winning ticket to the raffle.
The kids and I were at the dogs, the Gosford Greyhounds to be precise, at a fund-raiser for the local cricket club. We'd won a huge fruit platter as well as a tray of meat and vegetables. Mum, at home studying for an exam, would be very impressed later on in the evening.
I even backed a couple of winners too. And the kids had fun watching the dogs chase the mechanical hare around the track. So, a good night was had by all...
So, where was the catch? Well, when I awoke the next morning my upper back near my neck was in agony whenever I tried to move to get out of bed. I must have injured it when lifting the fruit platter from the other side of a counter the previous night.
Without going into an extensive exercise in self-pity, the couple of physio sessions to help me recover were more expensive than buying the produce in the first place!
But I would have had one less story to tell.
Posted to Personal by Keith Pitty