Mr. Pappan's Penguins

Ok so in basically everything i do in my life i have some sort of gimmik. In high school i had "Trenchcoat Tuesdays", on AIM i had "props" and then again on aim i had some weekly animal quiz where you guess the animal and win a prize or something like that....so i figured i might as well have something for this. I have decided on Thursdays it will be an ode' to somebody post meaning on thursday i will post about a person in my life (you know like a friend or something) and dedicate the entire post to him/her and recall one of the more memorable moments...why am i doing this? because this is my blog and i am starting to miss you guys and this helps me cope...yeah...

So last thursday ended up about Austin Shea and today this one will be about Mr. Isaac Pappan. So I woke up today and was getting ready for work and right there on my counter is a framed photograph that Isaac gave me of the two of us singing in the city. This is the only framed picture i have ever owned so i brought it with me to egypt and my family haha was a little confused why i would have a picture of me and a boy...anyway...so i was thinking about at that point and then recalled a time, actually all the time how because of him i cannot win a game of pool (billiards to the more sophisticated). I am not exaggerating when i say that whenever he is around i literally can never win a game and we have played many many games over the school year. And to be more specific it isnt that i do badly the entire game on the contrary the way this stupid curse of his works is that i do really REALLY well until the 8 ball that dreaded 8 ball where no matter what i scratch first try when trying to sink the 8 ball. Now let me take a moment to explain for those who arent familiar with pool and all that high tech lingo i was using. The point of 8ball billiards is to "sink" the billiard balls avoiding the 8ball till all the others are "sunk". when i say sink i mean to get them into one of the 6 holes surrounding the table. Anyway if you "scratch" that means you sink the white cue ball into one of the wholes which is bad. The rules state that if you do so while on the 8ball you automatically lose...and now back to the memories...so i remember one exact time maybe when i realized that Isaac was the reason for my losing. It was me playing against Anthony Budhram. and the game was pretting intense. Now i am not much of a man to boast or anything like that but in all honesty i was ON FIRE and was doing the best i had ever done in my life. So i was sinking balls left and right and i even was able to do the double sink! this means i got two balls into a hole at the same time. I'm saying i was doing so well that i was purposley doing all these amazing shots it wasnt dumb luck or anything i was consciously planning out every hit and KNOWING exactly where they would go i was so confident and everything and then it came to the 8ball. I was pacing around the table planning it out and i knew what i had to do. I needed to hit the cue ball off of the back left corner have it come back to just hit the 8ball into the side pocket...it was going so well until guess who came. As i hit the ball Isaac comes into the room and goes "Oh, Hey Guys!" and i dont know how he does it but then the cue ball that was already on perfect course started to like i dont know swerve and then it just went strait into the corner pocket, i'm not saying it liked bounced off a few walls and like just barely went in, i am saying it was like Isaac steered the cue ball straight into the pocket, if this was basketball it would be a swish right into the hoop. I was in shock and i was defeated. And then of course the rest is history game after game i would get to the 8ball and scratch on the first try Isaac didnt have to do anything but just wait till i was up and then he would win...

anyway its funny and i laugh whenever i think about it. Sorry this post might be stupid but hey what can ya do? they cant be all winners...so this is what thursdays will be like everyone will eventually get mentioned. Dont think i have some sort of schedule of who is next its just based on my thoughts for that thursday morning. God bless and darn you isaac pappan!

ps. see if you can get what literary parody i made of the title!