Slice Of Life
“Hockey is not an exciting sport to watch,” said Joe. “Baseball however, now there is an American pastime loved by many.” He was not open to discussion about this topic with many people. A critic of most sports Joe Church always had to be right.
He would talk and talk waiting for anyone to challenge his sports knowledge.
“My whole life I have followed many sports, and really hockey is just not very interesting. I believe people only enjoy it for the fights, not the actual game.”
Stubborn as he may seem Joe would not change the way he thought. The ironic part of it all was that he still watched hockey games from time to time. “Oh sure if nothing else is on then I’ll put it on to pass the time,” Joe would boast.
“I can tell you one thing for sure, when I have kids they will be taught about real sports like football and baseball, none of this hockey nonsense,” he said.
A famous saying is, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” With Joe this was exactly the case. There did not seem to be anyone who could persuade him to change the way he thought about the sport of hockey.
And that’s just the way Joe has kept it, even when the hockey team in his own area makes it to the playoffs.
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Some good quotes, but make sure every quote paragraph has attribution.
ReplyDeleteA little too much "telling, not showing" in some places, such as telling me he's stubborn instead of showing him being stubborn and trusting the reader figure that out.
I'd also like you to show me what Joe Church looks like ... or how he gestures or sounds, etc. A little more description would help me picture him.
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