The omens weren’t good. My hair
appointment ran half an hour longer than I expected. Partner Selina Volpatti
hit some kind of big rock in the Thorold Tunnel under the Welland Canal, which
was reduced to one lane for road work.
Though I didn’t get to cross the Peace
Bridge until 11:56 a.m. and raced along at 130 kmh, reducing my usual 30 minute
run from the bridge to 26 minutes, my worries were over when I got to St.
Catharines and tucked into the special lunch – butter tarts to die for.
But Selina fretted throughout the game
about what kind of damage she’d done to her new RAV 4, which has only 3,000
kilometers on it. I assured her that they build these things to go off-road, so
unless some precious automotive fluid was leaking into the slush, the RAV was
probably OK.
As for our game, we quickly went on the
offensive, which is our best stance, and knocked down extra tricks on several
contract, as we saw when we checked the hand record after the game. We also
were tough on defense, squeezing out extra tricks there as well.
When we punched up the results on the
electronic scoring device, we were third overall North-South in this 11-table
game. When the scores were posted, our 59.48% was first in the B strat, as
well. Our reward – 0.64 of a point. Guess we got all of our bad luck out of the
way before we got there.
Add that to the 0.32 of a point I got with
Dianne Bloom on Thursday and we bump the January number up a notch. Not
stellar, but given the dearth of double and triple points this month, I won’t
complain.
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