by Thornshackle

Created on: December 02, 2009

Karma, as they say is both the philosophy and the process of what comes around goes around; and as of my last event with a boomerang, this couldn't be truer. Every so often something seemingly inane gathers enough interest to form together a group, or even a club of others who are also interested in the same inane thing. We've seen in with things like photography, math, coin collecting, freemasonry, etc. Now we have it with boomeranging as well. In my case, or rather in my group's case, we are the boomerrangers (pronounced Boomer Rangers, like forest rangers, or park rangers, but different); and every month or whenever possible-every outing has to be doable by every Boomerranger's schedule, so the whole event has to be planned a month or more in advance, and if a fellow boomerranger can't be involved or has to drop out for whatever reason, then the whole event has to be replanned entirely.

In my case, this was to be my second outing, after having been a member for, say, a little more than a year, and my first in over six months. Like I said, any little thing can drive a planned event back to the old drawing board, and the group leaders had planned out said event, been forced to put the kibosh on it, planned again, and kyboshed again, until finally what seemed like a small eternity, I received an e-mail-a mass forward really-from Boomerranger Leader saying that an event was officially on again

Now the first time I was on an event I learned proper etiquette within the confines of the group, but very little relevant hands-on experience where it actually relates to the holding, throwing, and/or catching of a boomerang, so this essential stuff I had to learn on my own, in the great expanse of down-time which had elapsed since my first boomeranging event. In my own humble opinion I had gotten quite good. So as one can imagine, when I found out that an event was really, truly "on" I grabbed my boomerang and began practicing in earnest so that I could strut my stuff, as it were to all of the veteran boomerangers or rather Boomerrangers out there. So it was of great and irritating surprise when I found out that some member or other by the name of ruthie-ann117 had put a snag in the upcoming event what with having to lay to rest her husband of 45 years. Okay sure, I could understand an unforeseeable like that, but why for the love of Mike couldn't she have joined the Hamster Appreciation Club if she was going to be having life-altering spousal trouble which might cause

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