5K's & Tailgating Adventures

To my readers,

Being an intern has its never-ending share of funny stories.  Recently, I've shared stories of tailgating for the first season of UTSA football. We are blessed to have an entire group of men at CBC called the Godly Grillers that through our Men's Ministry does some amazing bbq-ing on three massive grills.  

I had reserved the smallest one. Let me explain that when I say smallest, the grill is on a trailer and easily larger than my entire pickup truck.  For being the smallest its still rather massive.

The trick is that the games are at 1PM, meaning tailgaters arrive at 7AM. Yes, 7AM, which means, yes you guessed it.  I must pick the grill at 6:30A.M., meaning I must leave the south-side of San Antonio at 6A.M.  

No I'm not complaining, I just want to explain for a college student, on a Saturday morning 5 A.M. alarms are tough.  

6:31 I pull into the gates of CBC to see the grill being towed out by another pickup truck! What was happening?

I quickly pulled into the parking lot to attempt to turn around except that the entire parking lot had been marked off for a 5K run that was happening later that morning.  My plan to turn around and flash my lights in order to stop them failed miserably. I was now currently driving the entire 5K while the entire event staff watch me while I did so.  

I'm sure I looked crazy.

Now what was I to do? I had no grill, its currently 6:45 A.M. with no number to call, on everyone's day off and the only thing I had accomplished was driving an entire 5K. 

You never want to call your boss on his time off- especially at 6:45 A.M. Who could I call?

Luckily, a friend answered when I called him.  He was able to get me in touch with the Pastor overseeing our Men's Ministry.  Turns out, it was our Men's pastor that took the grill- the whole situation was misunderstanding of time. They thought I needed it at 6PM rather than 6AM.

He informed me he was on his way to Bastrop to feed the community and firemen fighting the wildfires. 

Boy did I feel guilty.  What a great reason to take the grill! I literally had no right to be upset.

We made arrangements for me to try to tow one of the other larger grills that are stored away from CBC.  I made my way out to this property to find my keys for these locks didn't work.  

Long story short, we ended up cooking 10 lbs of hamburger, 40 some odd hot dogs, & sausage on my baby grill-

This is it.

That grill has always come to my rescue when I needed it.  Don't hate on the baby grill because today it earned its keep and showed its skill by completing the task of feeding over 25 different college students.  

I later told my boss this wonderful story to which he responded, "This will make the blog, wont it?"

"Probably."

"Oh, Tex."

Simply,

Tex G.M. Rule