Dan's True Colors Revealed

It won’t surprise any of you to know that Dan is a criminal. And it’s finally been confirmed by one of the largest enterprises is the United States: the NY Yankees. It all began innocently enough; my Dad was visiting on business and wanted to see a game at Yankee Stadium during his trip. Fine. After quite a lot of other adventures (Coney Island, a Mets game, my white coat ceremony) we found ourselves in the swarm of people converging on Yankee Stadium that fateful night. We scaled our way to the pinnacle where our seats were located and settled in for an exciting NY experience. I, of course, was plowing through the first of many non-medical texts since the end of the summer semester as Dan and Dad happily spouted forth facts from their reserve of seemingly infinite baseball knowledge. Before long a brood of frat boys set up shop right in front of us, obviously intoxicated and pretty vocal about their disgust for the opposing team. And then it happened…the literal spark that will forever be ingrained in our memories; the most inebriated of said frat boys lit a cigarette. A wave of protest went up all around us and at least four people asked the guy to put it out, as the smoke was billowing toward us all. When I finally asked him to put it out because it was aggravating my asthma, he made some flippant remark and blew smoke in Dan’s face. Suffice it to say, that didn’t go over well. The details remain a bit blurry, but a hat was aggressively ripped from the guy’s head in protest of the smoke, followed shortly by the entire row of frat boys holding their buddy back as he attempted to attack Dan. Words were exchanged. Security was called. Dan was kicked out. Okay, he did go willingly at the hearty request of the frat boy’s friends (frat boy was screaming at security that they would have to drag him out). As we watched Dan descend the stairs flanked by two security guards, I said to my Dad “that’s the son you never had.” I don’t think he’s ever been so proud. In the end we joined Dan on the outside because we’d already missed the most exciting part of the actual baseball game while Dan was in the midst of “Frat Boy Battle.” So ends the saga of Dan being ejected from Yankee Stadium, a mere confirmation of what we already suspected about Dan: he is trouble with a short fuse and should be dealt with cautiously.