“That was not for you to eat.”
“It was food traveling in my direction. What else was I supposed to do?”
“Duck.”
“Wasteful.”
The conversation moved quickly once everyone had plates in front of them. Big John restarted the argument about football conditioning being harder than hockey conditioning. Marco said skating required muscles most football players barely used. Big John countered that he had to move a three-hundred-pound man against his will on nearly every play.
Then Ollie said hockey was harder because the ice itself was trying to kill us.
That somehow turned into Eric asking whether cold temperatures increased calorie burn, which led Big John to announce that he probably needed another serving of potatoes for health reasons.
Normally, I would have joined in.
Tonight, I found
