The Football Outing

Today was the Big Crosstown Rivalry Game between Nameless High and Sasha High.  (Cue scary music.)  In all my years at Wherever Schools, I never attended any sport events because I lived an hour away, and the idea of driving two hours for a high school game was not my idea of a good time.

However, things have changed.  1) I'm only a few minutes away from the school, and 2) I'm in dire need of inexpensive entertainment that gets the boys out of the house.  Family season athletic passes for teachers are very inexpensive, so I bought one.  Now we can all get into any home event we want.

When I told the boys this evening was a football game night, a big battle between Sasha's school and mine, I was met with groans.  Sasha and Maksim didn't want to go at all.  "You can take Aran, Dad," Sasha said.  "I'll babysit Maksim."

Uh huh.  They just wanted computer time.  "We're going," I said, "whether you want to or not."

After supper, I piled everyone into the van, despite a major tantrum from Maksim and severe pouting from Sasha.  And off we went.

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It was a really good boys' evening out.