The Hockey Player
The Detroit Red Wings foreign scout flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi play hockey in the new American sponsored league and is suitably impressed and arranges for him to come over to the US.
Ken Holland signs him to a one year contract and the kid joins the team for the preseason. Two weeks later the Wings are down 4-0 to the Blackhawks with only 10 minutes left. Mike Babcock gives the young Iraqi the nod and he goes in. The kid is a sensation - scores 5 goals in 10 minutes and wins the game for Wings! The fans are delighted, the players and coaches are delighted and the media love the new star.
When the player comes off the ice he phones his mom to tell her about his first day of NHL hockey. 'Hello mom, guess what?' he says in an Iraqi accent. 'I played for 10 minutes today, we were 4-0 down, but I scored 5 goals and we won. Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me.'
Wonderful,' says his mom, 'Let me tell you about my day. Your father got shot in the street and robbed, your sister and I were ambushed, raped and beaten and your brother has joined a gang of looters, and all while you were having such great time.'
The young Iraqi is very upset. 'What can I say mom, but I'm so sorry.'
'Sorry? You're Sorry?' says his mom, 'It's your fault we moved to Detroit in the first place.'
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 05.05.08 (1:45 pm)
Watch it. I'm from Detroit. It's actually a great town except for the roughest part of the inner city, which, in fact, looks like a war zone. I drove through the worst of it a couple of months ago. I started crying.
posted by: barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 05.06.08 (12:27 pm)
Reply to: surrogate
Most big cities have their places where yuh might get killed going there...somehow dummies make it through unscathed!!!
posted by: auntconi (reply)
post date: 05.10.08 (5:02 pm)
I am from Detroit ~ and it ain't what it used to be!
But we can say that from a lot of our urban areas!
posted by: barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 05.10.08 (8:10 pm)
Reply to: auntconi
I had a little movie, where this lady and about 8 customers were in a little shop...she popped the cork from a bottle and they all came up with guns drawn!! really cute!!! was something about Detroit!!
posted by: auntconi (reply)
post date: 05.10.08 (9:54 pm)
Seems like Detroit has always had a reputation.
My mother was from a small town in Northern Michigan and when Dad's job required us to move to Detroit she worried about us kids going to school. They found a house across the street from the grade school and she accepted ~ she wanted us to be able to walk to school and so she could watch us do so. And after moving there and living there she admitted it wasn't as bad as she had heard. My whole family lives back there (Detroit area) ~ I am the one who married and moved away.
My husband lived in Grand Rapids and so I married and moved here. That was a long time ago ~ and I still go back to the Detroit area to visit family. :)
Oh well, this is perhaps too much information... sorry!