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Chalking Up Another Good Christmas.

For our last league, darts match, before Christmas, one bright spark in the team came up with the idea that all of our players should turn up in silly Father Christmas hats. On the said night I arrived at a friends house to meet up with him and his wife, so that we could travel on into town in the one car and the lady in question brought out 4 Christmas hats. Fortunately I was able to pick a traditional plain red one while the ladies husband chose an extravagant one with antlers, which only left a very silly one with two attached pig tails for the unfortunate, (but brave!) fourth member of our motley crew. After arriving at our home pub to meet up with the rest of our team for a short practice before the match, the Captain sent a runner to a local shop to buy some more hats for the rest. A short while later, all looking very silly we went to our away venue. Entering into the spirit of Christmas as I walked into the pub, I presented my mortal enemy with a small box of chalk and wished him a Merry Christmas! The effect was magical. At first he wondered what he had been given and as it dawned on him and his mates around him, he gave a grin from ear to ear! A little girl was standing near to me and I foolishly said I was Father Christmas. After all I had already got white hair and white beard along with a big round belly! Then I gave my darts Captain his Christmas card and saw him fiddling with it. “There is something else in there,” he said, “it’s too thick for just a card.”
I replied, “It’s just a little something that you want.”

He opened it with glee and found an Xmas card and half a dozen football lottery cards tucked into the envelop with it. (We had run out of the fund raising cards a week or two previously) It is one of those things, like chalk, that most darts teams use and nobody knows where to get them when they want them, as it is not something you buy everyday.

Since taking a more active roll in helping to run the league, I have recently been in the habit of presenting a small packet/box of chalk to the opposing team as I walk into the pub on away games. I usually keep a small stock of assorted, cheap, boxes of chalk at home that I buy on various shopping expeditions, when I chance upon them. Very often you can buy several packets for one pound, if you are lucky, so the cost is negligible, but they are invaluable and usually much appreciated by teams, especially if they are just about to run out for the evenings match!

However, this is not always the case as being the idiot I am, on one occasion I walked into the pub on an away game and presented the captain with a small box of chalk. Expecting a few minor words of thanks, all I got was, “What’s this for? It’s no good to me. We don’t use chalk, we use pens on a white board!

 

 

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