When I went to my boy Doug's wedding in 2001, my old karate teacher from Amherst was in Japan as part of a delegation celebrating his teacher's having brought karate to the States.
When I went to the States this past March, I missed the final game of March Madness by like one or two days.
Now, come to find out that the World Championship of Basketball. THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF BASKETBALL. The game that I have been playing for more than three decades. The game raised to the level of art by Cousy, Maravich, Erving, Johnson, Bird, and Jordan. Is going to be in Japan starting Aug 19th, four days before my trip to the States, and the finals are held the night I return. To make matters worse, according to the schedule, all of the games before we take off are at least a 3-4 hour train ride away, and the finals are up in (da)Saitama, 5 hours after we land. So it's possible for me to go to the finals, if I ship my baggage from the airport to my apt. and go directly to the game after a 14+ hour flight.
What would Tyler Durden do? While I know that I am, in fact, not my f'ing khakis....still....
What would you do ?
Maybe I can talk The Shoe into going...
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