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23862. judithathome - 4/5/2008 9:26:16 PM Well, today is my son's 46th birthday and about an hour after I put in the oven a 6 pound pot roast with all the trimmings, he called and asked if I'd be upset if he went to the NASCAR race instead of coming over for dinner tonight. I sat there for about 3 seconds and then said "Of course not! Go ahead and have a great time and come by tomorrow and get the leftovers and your cake!" Because really....we go on Tuesday to find out what day his brain surgery is going happen and even though I've done a pretty good job of thinking positively, how could I say no to something he's been wanting to do for the past 4 years and might never get a chance to do again? So I said GO!
Upshot is, he calls back 15 minutes later and said he's not going because the couple he was going with got into a fight and he doesn't feel like spending 6 hours at a racetrack with them now. Ha! 23863. anomie - 4/5/2008 9:51:21 PM Best wishes regarding your son, Judith.
Anytime spent at a car race would be pure hell for me. Did I ever tell my date-from-hell story here? Anyway, here's the short version with prices estimated due to my faulty memory...
Girl asked me to the Riverside 500...said she had free tickets. I don't like car races, but what the hell, it's free.
She had tickets to get into the "venue".
My costs:
Parking: 8 dollars
Pit passes: 16 dollars x 2
Grandstand seat: (it was either that or stand up somewhere) 15 dollars x 2
Beer: 5 dollars x 2
Sunburn from sitting hatless with full sun right in the face: Free
Race was backlit by the sun, so you couldn't really see the cars. And anyway, it was just the periodic zipping by once the race started.
Left the race before it was half over.
Consolation: Got laid, but it was hardly worth it.
23864. judithathome - 4/5/2008 10:25:32 PM Ha! My neighbor goes to this race every year...he has a knock-out wife who is 6 feet tall and very pretty...think Charlize Theron. They get to go compliments of some business associate who has one of those monster big RVs with a platform on top and is set up every year in the infield...my neighbor has been spoiled for seeing the races any other way.
He learns this week that business associate is getting a divorce and may lose RV...and much of his money. So my neighbor is bemoaning the fact he may have to go back to the stands to see the races now.
I had no idea that the best...and most expensive seats...at NASCAR races are high up in the stands. (That is, if you can't get infield tickets with a guy whose RV has a platform on top!) The "front row" ones are the cheapest. 23865. anomie - 4/5/2008 11:52:08 PM Yeah, there were a zillion RVs there with roofs set up for viewing. In fact, the grandstand crowd was sparse, at least where we were. And we were quite low, so no, we couldn't see much. This wasn't NASCAR back then. It was formula one I believe. Not NASCAR though I'm sure.
Anyway, I guess the high up seats let you see the other side of the track. 23866. wonkers2 - 4/6/2008 4:21:50 PM Anomie, was that the last time........you went to a NASCAR event? :-) 23867. wonkers2 - 4/6/2008 4:23:36 PM The last one I went to was the Indianapolis 500 time trials in 1958. Once was enough. (And I didn't even get laid!) 23868. anomie - 4/6/2008 5:09:53 PM Yep. Last time for any kind of car race. Although, I do remember a time when I was very young going to races on a wet clay track, where old beaters would slide around an oval track. And then the main event was a demolition derby. It was fun. Don't think I could handle the noise and smoke these days though. 23869. anomie - 4/6/2008 5:10:36 PM Indy 500 is formula one, no? 23870. wonkers2 - 4/6/2008 8:17:00 PM I'm not sure. Indy is not listed on the Formula 1 championship circuit. 23871. robertjayb - 4/6/2008 9:27:27 PM Indy is not formula one...here is an indy car:
 23872. anomie - 4/6/2008 10:12:10 PM Not NASCAR either. Shows what I know. So what do you call this kind of car/race? Looks like a Grand Prix car, but of course Indy is not a Grand Prix race. 23873. alistairConnor - 4/6/2008 10:44:42 PM Indy is to Formula One what American football is to rugby. i.e. de-skilled and dumbed down.
[battens down hatches...] 23874. magoseph - 4/6/2008 11:08:51 PM Magos, are you around? How's it going?
We're okay, Judith. I'll call you as soon as I can. 23875. anomie - 4/6/2008 11:13:16 PM I don't doubt you AC. I know little to nothing about car racing or rugby, and I care little for football. Everyone should take up baseball, I say. We could even add a tea break and lunch for the cricket crowd. 23876. wonkers2 - 4/7/2008 4:36:37 AM alistaire is just trying to start an argument about football v. rugby. I understand he's a devotee of quoits and croquet when he's not participating in bedroom sports, that is. 23877. alistairconnor - 4/7/2008 10:06:06 AM Quoits and croquet are ALSO bedroom sports. You Americans don't know what you're missing.
23878. alistairconnor - 4/7/2008 10:10:45 AM Quoits and croquet are ALSO bedroom sports. You Americans don't know what you're missing.
23879. wonkers2 - 4/7/2008 2:03:20 PM Ha! I guess you're right. 23880. wonkers2 - 4/7/2008 2:06:26 PM Speaking of Forumla 1 Spitzer is a piker compared to Max Mosley. Those Brits are really kinky! 23881. wonkers2 - 4/7/2008 2:48:22 PM A "private matter"
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