A Rough Night

Baseball season in Daegu is finally upon us!

The Samsung Lions (Daegu's professional team in the Korean Baseball League) started their season last weekend. I did not make it out to any games as of yet, but in the next few weeks I am sure I will.

I also joined a softball league here in Daegu, run by other foreigners. I'm excited to get out and play! Someone I know plays hard ball pretty competitively here and asked how experienced at baseball I was. I do not feel confident enough in my baseball to attempt to play hardball, but I jumped at the chance to join him at a practice this week, to get myself for Daegu softball which starts on Sunday.

Just as I was informed of the time the practice was starting at, 6:30 am, I made the decision, ok quiet Wednsday night in, no poker and no post poker bar hop. That had become the norm for me Wednsday nights. As soon as I made that decision my buddy called just as he arrived at the poker place. Hearing the guys playing made me quickly change my mind and go to poker and just cut out the post drinking session.

It didn't end up being a great idea. I got a run of cold cards that lasted all night, and any time I had something half decent the flop sucked for me. I finally went out on my second 20,000 won buy in flopping trip 9's, raising a guy on the flush draw who called and caught his flush. Worst part is I knew exactly what he had and figured he would call, because thats the way he plays, and catch because thats just how my luck was going.

I decided against donating 20,000 more won into the pot, leaving and grabbing a cab for home. On my way home, with my hands in my pockets it became apparent that I did not have my house key. I called back to the house and none of the guys could see the keys lieing around the place either.

Shit. What do I do? My boss may have an extra set...but its almost 3am, I don't really want to be a burden at this time in the morning. Before making any solid decision I decided to check my door. Maybe I forgot to lock it and the key was still inside. As the theme from the poker continued, no luck. So I sent out some text messages to some people in my area, hoping they would be awake.

No Replies. I hit up a PC bong and went online hoping I could figure something out. To no avail. I was hungry at this point, it was almost 4am and I wanted to wake up on time for baseball practice...instead it didn't look like I would get to bed before ball practice. I decided to go to McDonald's which is 24 hours. I ordered some food and ate slowly because it was at least warm in there. Then I curled up on the bench and attempted to sleep. I spent about 2 hours in McDonald's, attempting to sleep at the table. They must have forgot that I had come in.

I walked back towards home just before 6 and got a reply text from the guy I was meeting to go to ball practice with. I gave him a ring and asked for him to bring me an extra glove and then off to ball practice I went. I was one of 4 players there, but it was great to toss the ball around again.

After practice I went back to the ball guys house and tried to get a hold of my boss. I also slept on his couch in between my frugal attempts at contacting my boss. I finally managed to get a hold of him and he brought me the spare key. I have no idea where the other one is.