40-31

I'm not a huge sports fan but I do enjoy seeing coverage of high school girls basketball.  Especially if the teams involved are familiar to me.   Tonight, for example, I learned that Woodlan (my high school) beat Leo (the eternal rival) by 40-31.  You go girls.  I like to daydrean that if we had had girls basketball at Woodlan fifty-eight years ago I could have been a star.  I know some big city schools had half-court girls basketball way back then but it wasn't an option at Woodlan.  We didn't even have football until my senior year.  While it's fun to imagine I could have been a basketball star, even in my daydreams, a reality check reminds me that, as a tall, gawky teen, I had two left feet.  I know this is true because when the class of '62 was practicing for our graduation processional, after our principal had carefully explained that we would step forward right foot first, doing the hesitation step, I boldy stepped forward left foot first, which the principal loudly pointed out to everyone.  Thankfully, this was only practice. Talk about lasting trauma.  When i got married, my father and I agreed that we would not be doing the hesitation step as he walked me down the aisle.