The Undesputed Champs

This weekend we played in a softball tourney in Skeet! We did OK! We played some good games but my athletic highlight of the week had nothing to do with the tourney or softball in general! This week I uncovered a skill i didn't even know I had.... Put Put Golf!

I know what your saying.... Oh Brandon that is not a skill. But i am here to prove to you that in fact, put put golf is one of my main skills. Saturday night we went to a neon mini golf course to play around. Soon found ourselves so into it that we were yelling and making rules! And some of us, not to name anyone individually (but i will say that only 2 of the 4 were cheating.. and none of them were from our team) So it was me and Brandt against Seth and Amanda! Now let me take a second to educate you young put putters lookin to make it to the big leagues some day! If you are playing as a team doubles, personal selfish individual performance is not the way to go. Some times you have to sacrafice your personal score for the overall good of the team! If this were a individual performance i am 100% certian that those of us that played as a team (me and brandt) would have scored alot better! But we did better as a team than we would have if we played selfish put put and just tried to shine on our own. That being said when the end of the night came we (Brandt and I) were holding the champoinship belt as we exited the course. But the road to victory was not a easy one! we were faced with trials and tribulation... and even worse, cheaters! This is the story of the Champoinship night... You be the judge on how good we are.

Put Put Champs!!
by Brandon Turpin

As we started the night we decided to pair up one team member with a team member of the opposite team to discurage cheating... But as you will see, if you are dedicated you will find a way...

As we started off the night I was paired with Amanda and Brandt with Seth. The Very first whole Brandt went first and got a +2 on the course. Seth went and got a even par. I wend and got a +2... At this point I was worried. Then Amanda went. My worry was swept away as Amanda took 4 shots to even get off the green. She would hit the ball and it would come back, 4 times! Now Amanda played the poor girl act and i was feeling generous in the beginning and let her start over every hit. I did not penalize her or make her even count those hits. She ended up finishing that course with a +2 (unofficially) and officially a +6 but we did not count them. Toward the end we started getting real close.. That is when the real cheating came in..

On whole 4 Brandt was given a non legal putter. The head of the putter was loose and was not regulation standard for official put put play! When Brandt hit it the head of the putter bent and the ball moved in crazy directions, no fault of the golfer. Regulations state in chapter 6.1.3 - "if a golfers putter do not meet the National Mini Golf Association (NMGA) regulations and the golfer is given the faulty putter. The putter has the option of picking up the ball and re shooting the shot with a additional putter" Seth would not let this happen! He was furious that the hit did not count. Even though we were backed by offical NMGA rules we decided to take the stroke just so they had no way of complaining of unfair play.

Later on brandt hit the golf ball and the putter rolled over the top of the ball... Seth imidatly demanded that Brandt take a 3 stroke penelty for the act. Even though it was not a official call and the outcome of the hole was not effected in any way. We decided to once again take the hit just so we can say that we beet them! Through a few more series of cheating from Amanda and seth we ended the game with Brandt/Brandon 94 - Seth/Amanda 96 (this is including the 4 strokes that brandt was man enough to add on and the 4 that i was gullable to remove off Amanda's score card in the first hole) But that was not enough.... They needed to find a way to cheet! Amanda quickly changed some scores on her paper claiming that they were not correct on my paper... Once again knowing that i was 100% correct i added hers up and it would have gave them a 94 meaning we tied! Knowing that they already had 8 strokes removed from their score we decided to give them the extra 2 on top of that to end in a tie! Meaning we had a 1 hole sudden death to determine the champs (even though we had already earned it... But i was not worried, karma always comes back) Brandt went first and got a 5 shot. Amanda went 2nd on got a 6. then i went and got an amazing 2 shots! Whiched forced Seth to have to get a whole in 1 to even tie!.... Which obviously he did not! :) we Left the offical undisputed champs of the world!

Seth later tried to blame Amanda for bad golfing when the pressure was on in the sudden death! And honestly she did a great job! Shw was only 1 stroke above Brandt! That is far from blamable! But it is that selfish me attitude that ended up making them take 2nd place!

In the end on paper seth was the overall winner at 39... but individual stats do nothing and if you take the 9 shots that we added on Brandts score that were not true he would have taken 2nd to Brandt!

SO there you have it! The undesputed champs of mini put put! Some may say that it is not a title worth being proud of.. I say it is the only one of being proud of!

Bunco.... Not only for old ladies!!

I recently received a invitation to be part of a elite group of gamers! When the invitation was extended the only memory that i had of the great American game of Bunco was my mother getting together and playing with all her old woman friends! I didn't think that game was even played anymore except in retirement homes! But me being someone that will try almost anything out before he bashes it (like i did with the twilight movie) I figured i would give Bunco its fair shot!

I went over to some friends of my buddy Brandt! It was a larger group of which i did not know anyone! When the game was explained to me i cought myself thinking to myself, what have i got myself into? Then the games started... Soon i was captured by the Bunco rush! I was the first to get a Bunco, and i did it in a matter of munites! The addrenalyn started rushing and i soon found myself getting into it! Keeping track of my longest streaks and plotting to be on the opposing team of those that were ahead of me just so i could pass them! There are 4 prizes in Bunco... The most Buncos, most wins, least wins (looser prize) and a traveling bunco that goes from player to player durring the game with each Bunco. Who ever has it when the game ends takes the prize! As the last round started i was 1 win behind the leader and tied in Buncos and i had the traveling bunco! Sitting at the high rollers table I could smell the victory! As we played my team soon found ourselves winning that round and adding another W on my wheal of success! it wasnt but 10 sec before the last round ended that someone got bunco and took the traveling Bunco from me! At the time i was worried about my sweep not being a possibility. But after when i realized that the traveling prize was a box of tampons i soon felt like i dodged a bullet! After the round was over we tallied up all scores and i found myself Tied in wins and buncos... Through a series of intence tie breakers i was declaired the champ for both catagories! It was a sweep in my books! I may not have won the traveling bunco, but i won for the person that had the most Buncos, which i find better, and the most wins! That is like the Championship Belt! As i claimed my prizes i could hear people in the back chanting my name!! .... TURPY.... TURPY.... TURPY.... TURPY!!! (it may have just been brandt) i wanted to be hoisted on everyones shoulders and carried out to my car like a champ! The rocky theme song started playing in my mind! And as we left i walked by the b-ball court at the complex... The same Court that i got Ronnie Price (a NBA player) out in a game of dodgeball! This was just one more great champion memory that i added in my book of Village on the Parkway!

That being said! I am not a fan of Bunco! I will even go play with my mother and all her old ladie friends next time they play! I love it! Cant get enough of it! And quite frankly i am the best at it! The end.. Roll credits!!

Is it possible to have a good experience at Wally?

For those of you that don't know.. which is probably very few... There are a few things in this world that i absolutely hate with a passion! One of those things is the super store Walmart. I hate the store, I hate the people that shop there, i hate the employees, i hate the smell, i hate the checkout lines, I hate the self check out lines. Bassicly i hate everything about Walmart.. But more than anything, I hate that i cant stop going there! But something happened to me today!

Today as i was comming hom Ii realized that I needed some water and drinks for the pad... So i stopped by Wally World... From the instant second i placed my car tire on the parking lot i felt like i was in some kind of paralell universe. First thing is i found a front row parking spot! This alone was enough to make me wonder what was going on... But it didnt stop there!

When i walked in the front door i was expecting the grumpy old man standing on a 1/4" rubber pad to mumble some kind of welcome to me... But that was not the case... It was a female... and a decently attractive one. As she gazed into my eyes and welcomed me, It put a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart! When i was getting my Dr Pepper and watter I had a few watters fall out of the bundle that i grabbed... Out of nowhere this kind old man started picking them up for me! He was earning that $8 he was being paid to support his famitly! As i got all the necesities i went to the front to check out which is usually a long drawn out experience that no man wishes to experince. I went to the front and just like i guessed.... long lines. That warm fuzzy feeling that had been with me from when i walked in was starting to deminish! All of a sudden i looked over and right there was something that you NEVER see at wally world! It was a completly open lane! There was not a soul in the line! There had to be a reasonable explination for this. As i walked by i notinced that, indeed it was open.. But it was a self check out line and we all know that you are bound to have 2-3 errors per item. But it was better then standing in line. So i continued to move towrd the self check out line. As i started checking out i was planning on having quite a few errors, expecially since i has some items that were unbagable that always makes me wait for assistance! As i was checking out my 10 items or so i succesfully scanned each product with out one single error coming up! It was a complete assistance free check out! As i was walking out i was reflecting upon the events that just happened when it hit me.... That was probably the only time i would experience a positive walmart experience! As i was walking out i inhaled deeply to intake the one time i had a good walmart experience! I know this will never happen again.. and i want to never go back just so i go out on top with a positive exerience.... But then again i start to realize that i will alwasy go back, and that just pisses me off again that i cant loosen myself from the chains that Walmart binds around me!

My new years!!

So..... a new year has come! It is now officially 2009!! It seems like my whole life i was waiting for my post high school life to come and each year went by like that time would never come, and now that it is here, it goes by faster than i can keep up with! For most people new years is a time to go to a slutty dance and make out with as many people of the opposite sex as possible!.... and yes while that sounds nice, new years is so much more than that! I prefer those that i am closest to to be there when the clock ticks midnight so i start off this year the best possible. That could be family, friends, or someone that you are currently shacking! Who ever it is! I think its important to be with those people! And tonight was great! I was with the 2 people in the world that make me happy! Those 2 people would be my current room mate Brandt... And room mate until a few weeks ago, Chris! It was a perfect night in whole! I started it off with the best way possible! The last thing that i ate in 2008 was a DCBB or Double Cheesy Beef Burrito from Taco Bell! And it was amazing! mmmmmm!! Then we ended up spending the last munities of 2008 with some of my old friends from raintree that i had not seen for awhile! some married, some not! And just seeing everyone there when i went in put a huge smile on my face!!.... You may be saying to yourself! Brandon that is amazing! It could not get any better than that!.... But just you wait! I think i may have been the most relieved person in the world when 2009 struck! At the stroke of midnight! You may find some outside lighting fireworks, maybe a new years kiss, or just screaming happy new year!.... Or if your name is Bruce you will attack every girl in site trying to get a new years kiss! But i did something better than all 3 of them... put together! As the clocked counted down to 2009 i was strattled over a toilette, exfoliating myself of any liquids that were in my body! Yes that is right! I was the first person in 2009 to take a pee! And I know you don’t wanna hear this but I was holding it in all night! So it was a huge relief when it came out! I didn’t plan it! I left in the middle of the game mafia and seconds later I hear the count down... from 5! There was nothing I could do but enjoy the moment from the bathroom.... and that I did! I may not have had a bunch of people around! But there were defiantly fireworks going off inside me! I was happy! So once again! I start the new year off... In the best mode possible!! Relieved of everything!! No worries! And that feeling... I would not change for the world!!