ANCHOR DOWN (Nashville, TN)

The Vanderbilt Commodores –  Is this hoighty-toighty maritime or a Motown thang?

Day 2 Part 2

It’s amazing how the condo gentleman intuitively arrives at the car and helps us get all our booty out, and everyone knows each other by name.

A second serendipitous moment, when his cousin is waiting in the entrance for her friend to pick her for the tailgate we are to attend shortly after.

“You know – there are some people who are larger than name tags. They aren’t necessary for people like you,” I tell her when we are in the elevator, to which she demures and then smiles.

After unloading everything, both he and his mom tell me on separate occasions, “Just put the buggy back in the elevator, just press ‘1’ and get out before the door closes.”

“That’s the way we do it here,” she says, as I hobble down the hallway. When will my foot get better? talk about some horrible timing.

Now this wasn’t any tailgate. I thought we had it going on back in the mountains of NC, but this guy had beer backing: we are talking a full set-up with swank stools, a sweet buffet (thanks to his cousin) and TV (yo!) Lovely company and even a couple of Infiltrator Gators invited by an incredibly beautiful cancer survivor.

… who gave us great tickets to the game. However, sometimes the second row isn’t the best row; hence everyone using your seats as a walkway to their seats.

We moved and it was an awesome spectacle – which is what I see when I go to a football game. There is so much more than a ball moving up and down the field - check out the people!

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