A Movie Here, A Football Game There

(Note: I’m doing the Bloganuary challenge–today’s prompt relates to “playtime.)

In my 20s and 30s singles bars were very popular. Maybe they still are in places, although my young friends say, well, not really. I dreaded going when my friends insisted that’s how we spend our Saturday night. Sports bars I could handle. The pressure was off–it was more like a dining experience with friends then an opportunity to meet someone of the opposite sex.

Parties? I could handle parties when they were small and I knew at least some of the guests. But I’ve never been the extroverted type who could go and meet a ton of new people at a party. Yes, I could talk to strangers, but I couldn’t get comfortable if all the partygoers were foreign to me.

So playtime for me has always been quieter pursuits. Today (among other things), it’s my writing, which is mostly solitary (I do belong to a writer’s group, and that’s social as well as practical). I play Scrabble with some friends a couple of times a month. As for movies–I don’t really enjoy theaters anymore, but I love it when friends invite me over to watch something we’ve all wanted to see.

Today I was reminded of an old friend who is a fierce Michigan football fan. We used to go to a local sports bar when we both lived in Nashville to watch their games. I’d love to watch the championship game with her next week, but she lives hundreds of miles from me. Now that would be playtime.

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