Wanna be a baller. . .

Wanna be a baller, shot caller, 20 inch blade on the Impala
A caller gettin laid tonight

and that's all I know of those lyrics. . . I hit the highway. . . making money the fly way. . .

Actually I don't think that's what the lyrics are but I was going old school this weekend.

And by "old school" I mean I pretended I was back in college and drank for 11 hours. It was my friend's birthday and we were supposed to tubing down a river and camping, but the weather had other plans for us. So instead of being on a river in the downpour and sporatic lightening, we opted to watch college football and do a bar tour of sorts. We also played 2 rounds of circle of death. I don't know what's wrong with us either. I think it was because we were at a well known college bar in town. But there were no college kids to be seen. haha!

At the end of the night, we ended up at my place making s'mores. But wasn't it pouring down rain, you say?? Why, yes. Yes it was. My roommate had the most brilliant idea to make them in the oven. We got out the metal sticks we use for our fire pit, turned the oven on broil, and roasted the marshmallows. And they even catch fire if you put them too close. Just like the campfire folks!

Anyway, I also want to discuss something of importance. Well "of importance" I basically mean phrase I've decided to coin. :)

"Juke" is a term, often used in sports, when you fake someone out.

My friends and I use this term often when trying to get someone to change the subject or with other random things. Like when they're giving you a hard time about something and you then say something completely off subject like bring up a natural disaster. You're conversation juking.

I heard the term "Jesus Juke" one time and I thought it was hilarious. And sooo true. It's when you're talking with someone in a clearly joke filled conversation and they completely reverse the conversation into something serious and holy. You know people who do this. They all of a sudden become holier than though. It's annoying!

Anyway, last week my friend and I were talking, and we came up with the term "Boyfriend Juke" or "Girlfriend Juke". I guess really it could be called "Significant Other Juke" but I don't think it has quite the same ring to it.

It's when you're talking to someone. . . . say it's a stranger or a friend of a friend and all of a sudden he/she says "Well my girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife. . . blah, blah, blah . . . ."

This happened to me Thursday night. I was talking to a guy who is a friend of several of my friends and an acquaintance of mine. I've probably known him for 6 years now. We run into each other every week at softball during the summer, and we even go to the same church. On Sunday at church, I saw him, and we had a seat behind us open, so I motioned for him to sit by us. Well he mentioned last night that we should exchange phone numbers and maybe we could always save each other seats if we know the other is going. Great idea, really. Anyway, right after we exchanged numbers and had been talking for about 10 minutes, out of nowhere he says "Well I couldn't get my girlfriend to come to church on Sunday or most Sundays so I usually go by myself."

He "Girlfriend Juked" me. I was not hitting on him. I was talking to him about our church. And probably softball prior to that. And his job interview went that he was supposed to have.

Later that night, the same thing happened to my friend. It had to do with the shirt she had, so this guy had tried it on and said "Too small??" And she started laughing and then he said "well maybe my girlfriend could wear it." They were in a group of 5 people when they did this and played softball together all summer and never brought up that he had a girlfriend. And then BAM! it's like he thought she was hitting on him when she wasn't.

I've seen this happen many times. It's annoying. And hilarious when it's at the most awkward moment possible.

And now that I've brought it to your attention, I'm sure you'll be on the look out for it!