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Had actually been dating this girl for about a month. It was 4th or 5th date and she wanted to go play pool. Which was fine with me as at the time I loved to play pool and had my own cue. So I took her to one of my favorite pool places where we could rent a table by the hour.
We had been there about an hour and stopped to get some food. The place had a bar with food and TV's all over the place.
We sat down and started eating and talking. Nothing serious, just chatting between bites.
Then she drops this: "You're one of the weirdest guys I've ever met."
Somewhat shocked I asked why... Her response was that I wasn't watching the football game playing on all the TV's.
I took a moment and looked around and sure enough most, if not all the guys in the room were glued to the TV... I looked at the game playing, saw a football game, shrugged and stated that I've never been much of a sports fan.
That ended the relationship. We talked a couple more times after that, but we never went on another date. She called me about a month later complaining that some guy she met in a bar won't return her phone calls. That was the last time I ever spoke to her.
I still don't watch football, baseball, soccer or basketball. I'm a skydiver, why would I care about some game that only requires one ball?
Hockey has zero balls, 24 sharp pieces of metal moving around at 20-25mph, and a hard chunk of rubber moving at speeds of up to 100mph.
But I get your point.
I have two kids.
Oldest is a figure/ synchronized figure skater
Youngest is a hockey player.
Believe me, hockey is a LOT more civilized than figure skating and especially Synchro.