Here is the fun part about having three children. You only have two eyeballs and one neck bone. In other words it is impossible to keep an eye on all three of them or to keep them all happy and organized.
Last night we went to a business networking events. It used to be at events like this that we got the most out of networking. What is interesting is I get nothing out of the large unorganized networking events around town, and we get a few things from structured networking like BNI, but when you combine the two that is when the faucet turns on.
The sad truth is Covid nearly killed these types of events and did for a long time. It is 2026 and they are just now getting started back up. Covid broke a lot of habits human’s had formed, and an unstructured networking event by a structured networking organization was one of those.
Now back to the children. This was my role. My duty during the evening. Lara was to hob knob and network while I watched the kids. The first 30 minutes of this was an adventure in frustration. The venue, Apex Events, decided that the free game cards they were giving to BNI for paying, and I highlight paying, for renting the entire bar area for the evening didn’t include any game with prizes and produced no tickets.
The truth is that cut off most of the games in the venue. Arcade games aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be, but imagine if someone made a computer the size of an arcade cabinet and stuffed a game into it what that could do these days. Either way the kids were mostly frustrated running into roadblock after roadblock in trying to play a game. They never got too upset and the venue didn’t risk losing a $0.25 trinket.
Eventually that ended and here came the real fun. Mini-golf, bad luck, and poor timing. The first misfortune of mini golf is we didn’t get in line quick enough and we ended up behind some very slow players. It isn’t like we would be fast with two 6 year olds, a 5 year old, and me, but these people took slow to a new level.
The next misfortune of the mini golf is it is directly under the go kart track and that means you hear go karts racing overhead the entire time, and one of them happened to have very loud tires. This all came to a head on one of those holes where you have to hit the ball up a ramp. One of the children decided this is when it was time to get serious. He exceeded his six stroke limit and was on his way to exceeding his sixty stroke limit when the other two couldn’t take the noise anymore.
I figured nine holes was a good showing and we could leave, but the last child wouldn’t go.
He wanted to finish, and that meant sending the other two back to mommy and hoping for the best. They ran around the course like a bunch of nutballs looking for the club return and I eventually had to help them. Which is another danger of having three children. I only have one body.
All in all it was a fun evening out and hopefully Lara made some connections and it leads to business.
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