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What are you doing on Saturday? Well not you, but that's what Jo, one of my friends from tennis, asked me last week. Luckily I didn't have anything major planned for the day because she had scored tickets to the match day entertainment in the Centenary room at Bellerieve oval for the Devils football game against Williamstown. The Devils haven't been traveling too well this season so I wasn't expecting a great game of football, but I was looking forward to a collar and tie function with good food, good drink and good company along with hearing from the guest speaker Australian cricketer Damien Flemming.
The food was OK, but nothing to write home about. The beer was free flowing and available in copious amounts. The company was great, Jo works with a very funny bunch of people and their partners were great fun as well. Damien Flemming was very funny. He is a great speaker and has a lot of funny stories to tell.
As expected the football was crap with the Devils being thrashed, but to be honest I didn't see a lot of that. There were a few funny things that happened during the day. My divorce lawyer was there and I was sitting next to one of his female clients (not Jo!). When he spotted us chatting together he did a double take, but then he almost died when he saw her ex partner (the one he represented her against) sitting on the other side of her! Only in Tasmania. There was an assisted wardrobe malfunction at one point, but that's a story for another time. One of the guys on our table won almost $1000 on the horses, so he was pretty happy.
We went into the Clarence football club rooms after the game (the rules say you must leave the room quickly and quietly as soon as the game is over. The also say there is to be no physical contact. I'm not sure what they meant by that one!) for a few more beers and I was a bit scared to see that many of the Devil's players girlfriends were no older than my own daughter.
We then split up and headed our own ways. Jo had a family dinner to go to and I had a dinner planned with some friends (Colin, Anne, Andrew, Vicky and Yeutha). Apart from the fact that I drank more alcohol in one day than I have in the past year and felt very sorry for it in the morning, it was a great day/night all round.
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