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Foosball in New Years Eve

Hrishikesh Choudhari

Dec 31, 2008 — 1 min read

We landed at La Guardia at 6.15 pm on 31st Dec. It took us another hour-fifteen minutes to reach home in Fairfield. The winds were very very strong. The small plane in which we landed was shaking very hard.. and I had the window seat.. so I could see the wings trembling against the wind.

Brodie took me along to his old school friend Emma’s home around 20 minutes away. There was also Loren who was also Brodie’s old school friend, and her boyfriend too.

We went to her basement and Brodie immediately took over the banana recliner. We played some intense foosball among other things.

Of course I would have if it were not for my team-matey..!!

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