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Originally Posted by Leto
oh Tully Tully.... *Sigh* IF the puck is in your defensive zone, and one of your players dumps it out past 2 red lines (inclusive of the opposite team's goal line) this is icing the puck. the on ice official must then whistle the play stopped, and resumes play with a faceoff within the defensive zone of the team that committed the infraction. This penalizes the team for dumping the puck and in effect disrupting the play.
I can understand the excitement that ensued, as it appears that the infraction was not called and I'm sure that the knocking of you off the couch was not intentional, but nonetheless rude if not apologized for. But still, good times! Ah nothing like a good hockey controversy is there?
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You know I really tried to get into the games, thought it would be a good way to meld with the local, heavily Canadian, gringo community here. Not sure if it was the actions of a few while here at the house watching the games or maybe hockey just isn't for me. Either way I'm now onto trying to like socc.. sorry football since all my Mexican friends are completely insane about it. maybe more so then the Canadians about hockey if you can believe that. So far that's not going any better then hockey.
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Originally Posted by Leto
sorry about the resort reference - my mistake, Canadians often mistake ALL Mexican destinations for resorts. But my point being, at a $140 I would just pay for the cheque. Not sure why these guys were so uptight about it.
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I think part of it is the folks I'm dealing with are all retired and most have no interest in change. Really retired Americans are no different, they just have different things they don't want to change. Most of them have no interest in learning Spanish, which I find odd. If nothing else it's nice to know what people around you are saying. But, meh, to each their own.
I thought about picking up the check but was kind of fascinated watching the whole thing. I'd been out with smaller groups, one/two couples so I'd seen this before. I think I kind of figured with a group this large they'd just divide the check and call it a day. Seriously for some couples who had no drinks it was less then $4 for their total. Turns out they wanted to make damn sure they didn't accidentally pay $4.25 and were willing to spend a lot of time and effort on it.
I made sure the waiter got his tip and decided I've seen enough to know I don't want to do that again.