One Flat Tire

I thought i would share this story with you all. Up at dawn again jump in the junky bust up van. This time no trip to Oceanview due to the uncommitted and undisciplined young men in my life. I told them, "I am not begging no more if you want to play let me know ill come get you." So we head to Hilo with 8 players and a young man Larry we brought, and we were meeting Judah there, and that makes 9. About an hour in I asked Laci, "what's that noise!" She gave me some shy quiet answer as normal, but i concluded through the bumps and smoke and sound blown tire. We limped it on the shoulder about 1 mile from Pastor Daniel Costales' house, in Mountainview. Everyone knows not to break down in Mountainview, they would steal your tires and everything else in no time. Everyone out time to change the tire, so I thought, no tools and no spare! Great! Game starts in an hour. I called brother Daniel who was in Kauai so he sent his kids who were still sleeping to drop off a van for me to use. Laci called her mom who was on her way anyway for the game, by the time she got there the cops showed up. Just then Luanne showed up in her pickup, I grabbed all the tools she had and loaded up the gear and the team in the back of the truck, I asked the cops, "is this legal?", he said, "just put the younger ones in the front." "Yes sir!" And off they went, leaving me and Larry behind. The Cops wisely made me move the big van to a more safe spot and they took off. 3 Jacks latter we got the tire off and headed to the tire shop. We watched 4 innings of the Hawaii high school playoff game before they were done changing the tire! 40 minutes back to Mountainview with a brand new $244.00 tire. By the time we got the tire on and the van returned and on the road the game had been over for an hour. Amazingly they ended up winning! Now we haven't won a game in long, long time! Well its 2:00 I ended up getting them another game at 3:15 Caleb and Devin were playing their second game with another team and haven't eaten all day. I thought Ill stop and get the team something, me and Larry decided on pizza, he hadn't eaten all day either so i started feeling bad, poor guy. So we go to the fastest place Little Caesars 'hot and ready', yeah if you ask for that! I ordered 7 pizzas and she says, 'it'll be about 15minutes'. So i ordered ol' Larry some bread sticks to hold him over and gave him my sucker i go for father's day. Well we grabbed our pizza and out the door finally, I began to drive like my old self rodeo cowboy when the longest red light of the history of red lights turned red, I looked at Larry and said, "ok I think I'm finally sick of waiting. Green light, we got to the field finally with about 30 minutes till our next game, we got smashed like 16-1. So I conclude, if I am not at the game they win, and if I am there, they lose so next time I'm just going to sit on my front porch drink coffee all day and watch the cows and horses graze.