Saturday, August 04, 2007
Feb. 17, 2001
The date in the headline: The last time Dr. ER and Bird and I went bowling. We know the exact date.
Dale Earnhardt died the next day. I can still hear the gasp, the "noooo" and the wail from Dr. ER, who was in her office here at the house, clicking "update" on a news site until she learned what we feared.
Horrible day. We had gotten a cake in the shape of Dale's famous No. 3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Chevrolet. I remember we also had Frito chili pie as race food that day.
Shudder. The year 2001 sucked in many ways. Jan. 27 sucked. Feb. 18 sucked. Sept. 11 sucked, of course. Shudder.
Bird and YankeeBeautrothed have taken up bowling. We all took the day off today from hard manual labor. Tonight we bowl.
And thus will fall, six years and six months after the fact, the last remaining stigma associated with Dale's death.
--ER
Dale Earnhardt died the next day. I can still hear the gasp, the "noooo" and the wail from Dr. ER, who was in her office here at the house, clicking "update" on a news site until she learned what we feared.
Horrible day. We had gotten a cake in the shape of Dale's famous No. 3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Chevrolet. I remember we also had Frito chili pie as race food that day.
Shudder. The year 2001 sucked in many ways. Jan. 27 sucked. Feb. 18 sucked. Sept. 11 sucked, of course. Shudder.
Bird and YankeeBeautrothed have taken up bowling. We all took the day off today from hard manual labor. Tonight we bowl.
And thus will fall, six years and six months after the fact, the last remaining stigma associated with Dale's death.
--ER
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Healing is good, ER - slash - NASCAR family.
It was really, REALLY good -- better than I expected -- to see Mark Martin wearing a Dale Earnhardt, Inc. hat on Trackside last night.
My Mamaw (from Batesville) used to LOVE to hate the 3. Today she would be so proud that Mark is now a wise old "uncle" at DEI.
Hope ya'll break 100 tonight. :)
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It was really, REALLY good -- better than I expected -- to see Mark Martin wearing a Dale Earnhardt, Inc. hat on Trackside last night.
My Mamaw (from Batesville) used to LOVE to hate the 3. Today she would be so proud that Mark is now a wise old "uncle" at DEI.
Hope ya'll break 100 tonight. :)
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