If your computer
can handle it (meaning it doesn't stutter once it's
loaded) click the "HD" button...
incredible.
Laugh now. Call me
a nerd now. Because this summer, you will get hooked.
You will want to see who gets knocked out each week.
You will grow to know each player's personality. You
will be buying chalk and making your own
court.
...I hope.
:-)
My love affair
with 4-Square started 20 years ago at Clintonville
Academy. The game itself wasn't necessarily better
than football or basketball, no what made it so
intense was that 10 kids or more would be lined up to
play. So getting knocked out didn't just mean going
back to "D"... but going to the end of the line and
having to wait 10 rounds just to play again. So it
made the actual time that you were in... freaking
INTENSE. And I find it entirely fitting that my
principal, Sally Lindsay, just joined The Journey
Group and this is the first entry she's receiving.
Free-Fifteens made this possible Mrs. Lindsay. Man,
remember when Mrs. White would let us save those up? I
remember getting away with a Free-Hour one time and
pretty much thinking it was the greatest thing that
ever happened to me. And my mother paid for this. Ha.
"What'd you do
today Adam?"
"WE PLAYED 4 SQUARE FOR AN HOUR!"
Love
it.
So this is really
happening...
...or is it? You
didn't get this far without reading the date did you?
Not for the tenth year in a row... No. Oh that's
right, so many of you are newcomers to my dastardly
little Journey. Where I toy with the emotions of
the readers whom I'm painstakingly honest with all
year and revel in one day where I can lie through
my teeth.
However, recent
years have proven even more difficult to spot since
one year I pulled a fast one on everyone who
thought they were ready THIS time... and told the
truth - so when they all responded with "You didn't
get me this time!!!" I was able to reply with: "Yes I
did! Ha!".
So now it's your
call: true or false? Feel free to peruse the
previous
first entries of
April
and see what
ridiculous lengths I've gone to to make it legit. Then
show some balls/ovum and write me a note on Facebook
or on the YouTube link telling me if you think there's
really going to be a reality show or if I'm just
obsessive enough to put this video together to screw
with all of you.
