David Freeze: We all collect things while learning lessons
Just the other day, I was trying to clean my house before the housekeeper came. I did a column a couple of years ago about how I dread that day every month. It just means that I hustle and clean up like I should have been since she was last here. As I was going around the house, I realized that I’ve been collecting a few things.
One of the things that I have collected of course is wives and girlfriends. Never at the same time though.
On the first weekend in October, our running club was timing a triathlon at the Kannapolis Y that had an 11-mile bike ride and a 3.1-mile run. Denny Hogan mentioned the lack of volunteers, saying “If we just had all your wives and girlfriends here, we’d have all the intersections covered.” It seemed funny to the two of us.
Probably more interesting are some other things that I collect. About 30 years ago, I started collecting two things. Race T-shirts started coming in just about every weekend. I have had hundreds of them, some rather interesting ones.
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