Curling Safety, Urgent Care, and Mexican Wrestling
A true cautionary tale.
Thank you for being brave enough to read a story about curling. This version of the story is modified so that normal people .. er ah .. non-curlers can enjoy it.
Please understand that curling is somewhat similar to bocce in the manner in which it is played. If you don’t know anyone whose last name ends in a vowel, and have never played bocce, think shuffleboard. Sort of. The kind played with disks on concrete. If neither of those games rings a bell, may you enjoy whatever it is you do for entertainment.
After dinner, Mary and I were off to meet the other two members of our team at the Curling Club for our match against one of the better mixed teams. They’d won almost every game since they formed their team. Our record was somewhat worse. Very much somewhat.
Our plan to just stay with them was working pretty well until just past halfway through the game, where we missed taking out numerous opposition stones. We delivered our stones at theirs with the intent of removing them from the scoring area, but alas, to no avail. We had the last shot, but no high percentage possibility to use it on. After extensive strategizing, perhaps better described as panicked guessing, we finally decided on a runback of one of our stones. Unless the shooter is really skilled, a…