My surroundings at the Ball Park

We went to the Diamondbacks Spring Training game yesterday and I barely watched the game. I am more interested in the people around me. To my right, a very elderly man, long, polyester pants, white dress shirt with a pocket; in the pocket a white cloth handkerchief. He has thick black dress socks. I can see them because he has removed his shoes..no surprise, it is 78 degrees and sunny. He is drinking an iced tea. He seems alone, but there is a very elderly woman, two seats over. She is wearing cobalt blue velour pants and a jacket…but I do not see them interact.



Behind me is a family, the father is drunk. He is upset that someone gave the little girl gum…he says ‘meet you at the morgue’ because he is saying she will die from swallowing the gum. To my front right is a Grandfather, Son and grandson. The grandson looks around 7 years old. All three have thick foam chair pads, presumably to protect the bum from the hot chair. Every time they stand up, they either have to hold on to them or they fall through the back of the seat to the ground. The boy is very concerned about this and grabs his and his dad’s each time they get up. The boy looks back to us and watches Ken dropping his peanut shells on the ground. He tells his Dad that the man behind him is dropping his peanut shells on the floor. His dad whispers something and he turns back around. His dad gets up to go get something. The boy tries to talk to his grandfather and he is very short with him, telling him to watch the game. On the other side of the boy are four guys, I guess them to be in their early 30’s. One guy has the crossword puzzle from the newspaper. He works on it for a while and then passes it to one of his friends. This went on the entire game. One guy has a huge ring on with diamonds. It says ‘World Series’ on it. I keep looking to see if I can get more info from the ring. I have Ken take a picture of the guy with his cell phone. I sent it to Justen to see if he recognizes him…thinking he may be a former Baseball player. It was a bad profile shot and Justen did not recognize him. I ask Ken to ask the guy if it is a World Series ring before he leaves. As he was getting up to leave, Ken asks him and he says it is a World Series ring for Arena Football. To my left was a couple…nothing interesting there. The Air show was going on nearby and we could see some of the activity which was cool. I don’t even know what the score was…we left in the 8th inning. Diamondbacks were losing…they looked terrible. Usually I do watch more of the game, but it was boring and my surroundings were more interesting.