Who threw dirt on your pickle?

Darby's team lost their last game tonight, but Darby did get an error-induced homerun on her first at bat. So for that brief (and only) moment we were in the lead thanks to Darby.

But what will go down as the second most memorable event of the evening will be what we'll call the "dirty pickle incident". Shelby was eating a pickle when a little kid (the brother of one of Darby's teammates) threw dirt at her, which landed on her pickle. Well, as she LOVES pickles (I have no idea who taught her that), she immediately flipped out and went crying to mommy. Mommy took Shelby to the bathroom to wash off the pickle, and then went and spoke to the boy and his mother. So the whole thing was generally resolved fairly quickly. BUT... it was all rather surreal, in that there was so much commotion over a bloody (well, dirty) pickle. It became a great inspiration for laughter after the fact.

So, from then on we began to use the "dirty pickle" reference as a pretext in dealing with other issues. For example, "what's wrong with you, someone throw dirt on your pickle?" Or, "go sit down before I throw dirt on your pickle." The best we've found thus far is the rhetorical, "who threw dirt on your pickle?"

So if you hear me saying such an absurd thing, you'll know where it came from. And don't be surprise if you hear it mixed with other absurdly humorous statements such as, "if you get dirt on my pickle, I'll snap you like crisp bacon". The crisp bacon story is a tale from long ago and for another day...