Ute Tray Appreciation

Okay, jumping straight back into my recount of my friend’s night with the guy I introduced her to. As I said in my last blog, things went really well last night and they hit it off immediately. What I was up to when I finished up my blog post before was that he said that he hadn’t spoken to many girls who shared his love for utes, canopies and tool boxes. He said he was really impressed with her and wanted to show her his aluminium ute canopies if she was free after the party. She was ecstatic at the time and just as ecstatic on the phone! Things clearly went incredibly well. I’m very happy for her.

It’s funny because I’d run in the other direction if someone spent the whole night talking to me about their love of high-quality ute trays. Melbourne has a very high population, so if you don’t like one guy, it’s very easy to move on to the next. I’m not passionate about aluminium ute trays or even utes for that matter, so I wouldn’t be interested in spending time with someone who was. But my friend obviously has some interest, or at least enough to pretend to be interested in it so that she can get to know my other friend. Everyone is different, that’s for sure!

I wonder if my friend and the boy she met will end up being boyfriend and girlfriend. If they do, will she be one of those girls who just ends up liking exactly what her boyfriend likes and losing her personality? When we go out for brunch will it be normal or will she spend the whole time talking about her boyfriend’s new half canopy? That would be so unfortunate. Our conversations would be so dry and I would feel like I’ve lost a friend. Anyway, that’s not an issue for now so there’s no point in me worrying about it!

Discussing 4×4 Canopies

I’m really excited! I’m starting a mixed netball team which I think will be a lot of fun. The only foreseeable issue is that everyone has different schedules and I can definitely tell that there will be times when we don’t have enough players to field a team. That will be difficult to coordinate. We have so many different types of people who will be playing in the team. We have a paramedic, a nurse, a teacher, several tradies and people working in other professions. I can just imagine it now – all of us arriving at the car park just minutes before our game. The tradies complimenting each other’s 4×4 aluminium canopies, the healthcare workers discussing the trials and tribulations of their hard day at work. And me, just happy to be there surrounded by the people I love most!

I’m so happy at the thought of the team and I can’t wait for our first game of the season. I hope that everyone else is as excited as I am, because having really good team spirit is half of the battle when it comes to performing well on the court. You don’t even need to know the rules of netball (I certainly don’t), you just have to show up every week with a good attitude and a friendly demeanour! 

Maybe in our first week before our first game we can all sit in one of the tradies ute trays, installed in Melbourne, and discuss our game plan. We might even be able to come up with a plan for the entire season, and discuss where we want to be once the season ends. It’ll be like key performance indicators but for the netball court. How funny! I seriously can’t wait! 

After our first season, I’ll update you all and let you know how it went. I’m expecting big things and I’m sure my team of best friends will deliver.