SPOILIN’ THE BROTH
Wife Pegaroo will tell you that I’m not really adept at housekeeping. Therefore, I have come to realize I’ll never make the U.S. Olympics curling team as the guy with the broom.
I love the summer Olympics, especially track and field and swimming and diving. But I have a trouble getting into the winter games, except for the downhill-at-breakneck-speed stuff. Now that’s exciting.
Curling? It’s a little baffling to me how that ever got into the Olympics.
Perhaps someone read “Patience is a Virtue,” a poem written in the 5th Century, took it to heart and invented curling to reward slow-motion, snooze-inducing patience.
This is my opinion column appearing on the Commentary page. If you are a fan of curling and can articulate its skill requirements, you are invited to write a letter to the editor.
(I don’t hear a lot of feet shuffling going on in search of pen and paper.)
There was also a feature story the other day in the
Austin American Statesman
about a curling league now operating in Austin. I knew that city had been badly infiltrated by Californians, but who knew they curled? (Does one who participates in curling curl?)
If you love and understand curling, go sign up to curl in Austin. But write us that letter first.
Back to the downhill-at-breakneck-speed skiing, I get hooked on that. Also like the ski jumping and its aerodynamics. Got to admire the speed skaters, snowboarders and mogul ski athletes too.
Figure skating events make me tense, thinking that these folks have worked four years for their time in the Olympics spotlight and one spill will shatter their dreams. But that’s true of every event, even curling.
When I see the term curling I think of beauty salons. I used to pass by one, I think it was in Taylor but maybe elsewhere, named “Curl Up & Dye.”
In fact, some of the most clever business names to be found in most towns are the names on the barber shops and beauty salons. Hair stylists are very creative people. Otherwise, they couldn’t make old goats like me look so cotton-picking good.
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