[Iowanian]

Instead of fretting about the Kung Flu and no grass hockey races on tv, maybe we can resort to the good stuff. I'd rather read about your best day.


This is something pretty close to what I shared with friends this winter but not here.

In 1982 I was 9 years old sitting at a table in the local Dairy Queen. I was eating a cherry dip cone, Joan Jett was blasting "I love Rock N Roll" on the juke box. I jealously watched a kid with a seemingly endless supply of quarters play Donkey Kong over and over and over. I didn't have quarters, definitely wasn't getting any coins from the adult I was with to waste on a video game, and I was thinking about the show, silver spoons and how that kid on the show had his own arcade games in the den.

I told myself that someday, I'd have my own damn donkey kong game.
"Someday" was last night.
I didn't have any quarters at the DQ that day, but I've got all the quarters I need in life. Bucket list item, Check.