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Published June 15, 2007 03:08 pm - Last weekend was officially the start of summer. For me, anyway. Anne Kettenbrink: It could always be worse Last weekend was officially the start of summer. For me, anyway.
This was the first opportunity my dad and I had to see the Cardinals in action this summer. And they’re doing so well. (See, there’s some of that sarcasm that’s never in short supply.) So, I set off Friday in pursuit of some quality family time, baseball, stadium food and a visit with a long-lost friend. Four hours of driving (each way), three trips to Jack in the Box, two Cardinals games and one cemetery tour later, I was ready to head back home. By the way, is it just me or does the shake machine at Jack in the Box never work? I have never lived in a city with a Jack in the Box, so their shakes are a special treat for me when I drive somewhere where they are. However, a good 80 percent of the time, there’s some reason why I can’t have a shake. It seems proportionate to how much I want one, too. Just ask my parents, who had to drive me around to about five Jack in the Boxes the night I got back from spending three months in England and wanted one really, really badly. The first baseball game was pretty uneventful, unless you consider the Cardinals hitting three home runs in three innings and then giving up the lead to eventually lose 10-6 an event. I do not. I consider it disappointing. The Cardinals organization also managed to squeeze another $25 bucks out of us on top of the tickets and food when I had to buy a long-sleeved shirt to fend off the hypothermia I was developing from the wind that whips around the top of the stadium. Down on the ground, it was a beautiful 72 degrees. In the second row from the top, it was more like 55. After we spent the night defrosting, my dad and I set out with my aunt and grandma for a cemetery tour. Because my dad has passed this sort of dorkiness on to me (thanks, Dad, and Happy Father’s Day), I’ve been trying to work on recording family history with my grandmas. I figured including cemetery information was a good idea. Little did I know that it would turn into a family event, culminating in another visit to Jack in the Box, where the shake machine was miraculously working. Probably because I didn’t really want a shake, as I’d had one the day before. For the ball game on Sunday, Dad let me take my friend Casey for her birthday. All was going well, aside from when Albert hit a home run while I was at the ATM. Then the probably drunk fat guy fell on Casey. That’s right. Casey got fallen on. By a probably drunk fat guy. On her birthday. 
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