When I returned from Vegas I realized that my church softball team had a game that evening. I do try to stay active and still love to play softball as a replacement to baseball. So this is a pretty easy high pitch church league, supposed to be very relaxed, but sometimes people forget it’s a church league and get a little intense on the field. So last year I had to go off and smoke a butt behind some bushes between innings because it’s a family atmosphere and sometimes the moms get annoyed with my smoke around their kids. They used to give me so much grief about it, so I had to take it out on the other team and smack their pitchers around a bit…good motivator and ultimately the team wins…but still I hated it. So since I started vaping with my Bloog e-cigarettes I’m just puffing vapor and don’t have to hide anywhere. So this is our first game, about the 3rd inning and I start puffing and a mom walks up to me and asks me to stop smoking, because she sees the vapor so my response is I’m not smoking I’m vaping, see the LED light (no matches, no ash, nothing) and the smoke is not smoke it’s vapor. So no second hand smoke. And she’s trying to save face and argue with me and I’m getting a bit annoyed at this point. So (and please forgive me for this, because it is a bit rude of me) I just take a big drag and blow it in her general direction to show her it’s NOT smoke. And she’s like, “Oh it really isn’t smoke…um, uh, it just looked like smoke from a distance.” And I go. “It’s supposed to look like smoke, but I’m really trying to step down my nicotine intake and live a healthier lifestyle…really, so can you cut me a break on this…PLEASE?” So by this time my blood pressure’s up and I’m on deck. Gotta get a couple of swings in to loosen up. So I put my Bloog in my pocket (nice…can’t do that with a cigarette) and get loose. Guy in front of me gets a single and sets me up with runners on first and third two outs…love this situation and I’m a lefty…so the whole field shifts to right thinking I’m a pull hitter…so this pitcher lays up a sweet pitch I wait on it and smash it to left field (no one’s even there because of their stupid lefty shift) and I end up with a 2 RBI triple easy. So as soon as I hit third I look over at the mom on the bench pull out my Bloog take a puff, give her a wink and put it back in my pocket…ahhh thank goodness for the little pleasures in life. Thanks to my wife and Bloog for saving the day! PEACE!
