It happens ...
- Submitted by Jayne (DGD 11/07): Eleven-year-old Zoe continues her descent into senility, this time marring an
otherwise flawless weekend by needing to stop to smell Jacci's pants. While
not normally a bad thing, it is when Jacci is the boxloader! Zoe got back
on task once she checked out the mysterious stain, but the 10.7 second split
didn't do much to help her vets team win that race. [Jacci adds: It's always the boxloader's fault. Zoe, start dog running on a vets team, stops after triggering the box
to sniff Jacci’s jeans. Zoe remembers suddenly about the ball, retrieves ball from near the backstop, and returns to Jayne, a 10.2 second clean run.]
- Submitted by Jayne (DGD 11/07): Cisco was so excited about flyball that he found himself in the very
embarassing position of not being able to move! His "5th leg" was hanging so
low it hampered his ability to jump out of the van. Thankfully his big
brother Alta (who would never do anything so ridiculous) filled in for him
that race!
- Okay, so Angie's always late. Everyone knows that. She cruises in at the last possible moment, just before we need her dog for the next race. Especially if racing
starts early in the morning. As it usually does. We try to compensate by telling her racing starts earlier than it actually does. Generally, to no avail. So, we're in race #3. Racing has started. No sign of Angie. Race #2 ... no Angie. It's a 4-dog team. We called her. "I'm really
sorry, I left late -- I'm still 1/2 hour away." In a panic, we run in
and beg Lori with host team IFD please to let us add an emergency dog (Ruby) to the line-up because Angie's not here! Lori let's us. Race #3, we all head in,
including Steve with Ruby. Got'cha! There's Angie, waiting patiently for the race to begin. She'd been the first to arrive that morning (because we had all told her
yesterday racing started 1/2 hour earlier than it actually did). As soon as she discovered she'd been had, she began to plot. She parked far away and watched us all
arrive, watched us all begin to panic. And then, with impeccable timing, walked in just in time for the race. In a somewhat feeble attempt to get back at her, Steve and
Adam searched out her van, locked it, and confiscated the keys in the hope she'd think she'd locked them inside. Angie, smarter than the average bear, was not taken in
by this. Score: Skidz 0, Angie 10. (IFD 09/07)
- Submitted by Jayne & Barbara (Omaha 4-Play 04/07): Rippy's Tumor. Steve was all concerned because he felt a seriously large bump on
Rippy's belly. Then in front of all of us Barbara had him look at Rippy's belly and he discovered that the tumors were actually just Rippy's nipples. In Steve's
defense, since she's not spayed they are larger. J
- Submitted by Jayne & Barbara (Omaha 4-Play 04/07): Cisco's Death Defying Dive.
So Cisco really loves that orange Cuz Ball and every once in a while he
gets it out of the tug and it goes bouncing all over. Well Omaha has
ring gating and the Cuz Ball bounced thru one of the holes & Cisco
wasn't about to let it get away. I could just see what was going to
happen, he was going to smash into the gating and knock down the entire
side with a tremendous crash, causing major embarassment. But instead,
quicker than I can say CISCO NO, he just jumped THRU the gating. He
was so smooth about it, it was difficult to believe he had actually
done it! I picked him up from the other side - didn't want to tempt fate by having him come back through.
- Submitted by Barbara (Omaha 4-Play 04/07): On Saturday we were all lined up to race, Joe Goetz is judging. Steve lets go of the start dog - early start. (Angie and Jayne were
huddled together.) Then, Angie runs out of the ring. We're still racing the same heat ... I say to Steve, "she's going to get her tug, waste some time!" We wait.
We wait. We wait. Finally I see Angie coming back into the ring (I figure Joe is about to blow a fuse over the wait), and in she comes ... with a different dog!
- Laura made the most memorable effort to get to the Hawkeye men's basketball game demo (3/1/06) despite Amber locking
Laura OUT of her car, Laura being unable to go for help for fear Amber would destroy interior of said car, trying
multiple times to call Marcus who was too busy playing on the computer to answer her calls, finally calling Steve (she was
just outside of Steve's house at the time) and having him email Marcus to tell him to call her, Marcus
finally calling and then driving out to deliver spare keys. To top off her night, on the way HOME from the demo, she was
unexpectedly accosted in the dark in the middle of the road by a herd of enormous BLACK cows (through which she handily maneuvered -
and everyone made it home happily and safely, and no doubt with a great sense of relief).
- Jefferson (Franklin?), Wisconsin (September 2004). We hardly missed Angie. Jo made Skidz history by trying to chop up a half-burned
log in the fire pit with a hatchet still encased in its protective safety cover; Steve, who insisted he knew more then the
instructions about where to light fires and where not to, proceeded nearly to burn down his brand new mosquito-proof awning;
Jayne had a morbidly fun time watching Jet-Puffed Marshmallows explode in the fire; and we once again ended up at a camping
tournament with ONLY STICKS.
- Angie, after offering via email to provide s'mores ingredients for Henry camping (June 2004), denied ever having said any such
thing. Sticks, she said, was what she promised to provide. Rebellion amongst the troops forced Angie out on an expedition
through Henry in search of s'mores stuff (and liquor). How does it happen Angie is the vortex of our good flyball stories these
days?
- Not exactly a flyball blooper, but we don't want to forget the chocolate martinis in Omaha (December 2003) resulting
in Angie's key card floating (NOT) in the toilet. How did that happen? (And how did she get it out?) And, speaking of
bloopers, why did she go to bed in a wet swimsuit -- with Laura?
- Groaners: IFD tourney in Albert Lea, MN, August 2003: Multi-breed needs SEVEN heats to finish one race. WINS race.
Gets ONE point for entire fiasco. Ouch.
- Head-on: Jack and Jester, over the first hurdle at full speed, at our first practice in SHORTER building, fall
2002. About the same time Jack's handler Jim smashed into the wall. (We had more ROOM before, even if we had to dodge
tractors!)
- Bowled: June, by Chloe. Henry, summer 2002: after she was released, June decided she wasn't sure she WANTED to go get
the ball. Hesitation is treacherous in flyball. She got nailed by Chloe, returning at full speed. June did a 360,
staggered a bit, looked up at Corey, who tried to send her again. She slowly headed toward the box, then crossed,
trotted out the door, and headed back towards the crating area. Smart girl.
- Notable: Longest Ball Bobble: Belle, 10 seconds standing at the box after the ball had rolled away. Wouldn't return
without ball, despite Bekka's pleading; Springfield 2001. Most admiring glances -- at herself, also Belle, who caught sight of herself in
the mirror DURING a race, at Dynomutts, February 2001.
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