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habby
12-20-2008, 08:48 PM
Anyone else experience this?

This is gonna be a strange thread but here goes:
Have you ever, in your day to day, reacted to something & gotten a comment on it. Dosen't happen often but every now & then I will get this suprised look and comment like...."Wow, how the heck did you do that etc." in situations when say something falls off a counter or shelf & I instictively reach & grab it before it hits the floor. People look shocked that I reacted so quickly & in my mind I relate it to making a save in hockey. Maybe/maybe not, but it happens maybe every 3 months or so & it actually gives me the same feeling as say, making a glove save. Weird I know! The fact that it has happened so often makes me wonder though.

I was at the World Junior Ball Hockey Championship Tournament last year & a slapshot went over the net & right at me (of course I was sitting just above the glass right behind the goalie) & without even thinking I reached up with one hand & snagged it. It stung, but the crowd gave me a great cheer & starting chanting for me to go in the net.

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baronvonnekots
12-23-2008, 09:32 PM
Yeah this happens to me a lot at work.
I am an IT guy so stuff is constantly flying around the room, including cut up chunks of bouncy balls that can fly in any direction. Today someone whipped a chunk off the wall and it was heading right at my face I caught it, laughed, looked at him and said I guess I am ready for A League!

croy33
12-23-2008, 10:22 PM
no not me.... im slow and unmotivated:D

rony
12-29-2008, 05:13 PM
I have always been rather quick, starting playing Goalie and it's only gotten better..

Worse is don't put your foot out for a falling knife.. :)