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This was weird right?

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Purplefrock · 26/02/2024 14:25

Yesterday I went to an event with two fellow club members. One is a long standing member and a good friend, the other is a new member with a childlike enthusiasm and it was good to have him along.

He's a lively character. In his 30s married with a baby, seems to work hard play hard iyswim. Everywhere we go we bump into someone he knows.

Yesterday, we were waiting on the station and he's chatting to a young woman, nothing unusual in that, he told us she was a friend from school. We assumed this was a chance meeting and she was on her way somewhere else, but no, she lives near us but had travelled independently to meet him there and watch the two hour long event he was competing in.

She spent the rest of the day with us, basically organising him, more like his mother than his wife TBH. Making sure he had the right kit, ate, was comfortable etc. She came for lunch with us and was perfectly pleasant. Then she drove him home.

Not my business, I suppose, but that's weird, isn't it?

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HelloMiss · 26/02/2024 14:46

What's the weird bit?

It's just them being them

Purplefrock · 26/02/2024 14:53

Just having her turn up without mentioning she was coming or introducing us until asked?

Having her travel separately when the rest of us went in one car? Then travelling back with her anyway?

A woman giving up her day to support a friend doing something that is really not a spectator sport?

A grown man needing/wanting to be mothered like that and her wanting to do it?

Then there's the wife and baby at home...

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mindutopia · 26/02/2024 14:58

I think it might depend on what the event is. Is it the sort of thing you might have a 'support crew' for? Or a coach/trainer? I can think of things where friends might take turns doing this sort of thing for each other? But it would depend on what the event was on how normal/weird that might be.

Purplefrock · 26/02/2024 15:02

mindutopia · 26/02/2024 14:58

I think it might depend on what the event is. Is it the sort of thing you might have a 'support crew' for? Or a coach/trainer? I can think of things where friends might take turns doing this sort of thing for each other? But it would depend on what the event was on how normal/weird that might be.

At the top level maybe, but not what we're doing. I've been doing it 16 years and I've never seen it before.

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