Meeting Places

Last night we were to meet with friends and watch Syracuse play Oklahoma.  Following a lovely dinner, described further down in this post, we arrived at the sports bar, "Zebs", to find our friends Rock, Jackie, and Bob quite upset with the "home team".  It was half time and Syracuse were losing.  Now I'm not a basketball fan, but as I understand it, the half is considered very early in the game and there still might have been time for a come back.  I couldn't understand the long faces.  As the game resumed, Syracuse looked awful.  Now it was understood why everyone was so [...]