We usually meet on the friday before the Texas OU weekend. Start out at noon and go till about 10 pm. (hey we are old). This year the group included Lee and myself (Rockwall),Tony Foreman (Dallas), Sharron Davis (Addison), Gary Don & Bobbie Smith (Corpus Christi), Hershey Cordell (Weatherford) and for the first time Horace Mallard (Fort Worth). For a short time my daughter Kim and Luke and Zack joined us.

We walk around and make fun of each other.

We stop and tell stories.

We stop and eat. (We do this several times)

When the sun goes down and the parade is over, we hit the midway with stories of how we are going to have to have a cart to carry away the prizes.

We throw balls.

We throw our arms away.

We choose the smaller prizes so they will not be so hard to carry.

The highlight of the evening is the tournament that decides who is the "Big Chicken" for the next year (we use that in a positive way). The manly art of flipping chickens is how we decide. At 8 chickens for $5 it usually cost about $20 to win the title, however in a vain effort to "buy the prize" some spend more. This year the action was more competative than usual and were we not "old friends" we might have gotten physical.

This year the "big chicken" is Gary Don. He spent $15 and got 6 in the pot (thats 25%). On the bottom was last year's "BC" Tony Foreman who spent $20 and got zero. The rest of us were in the middle.

We go home and realize that a day at the fair with good friends is hard to beat.