From Obtaining Lost Items To a Strange Trend In Extra-curricular Sports

Someone saved some of my stuff for me. I haven't shown my thanks to them yet, but I am planning to surprise them with something custom-made, for sure.

 In that treasure pile they provided, I had a road atlas. Yes!

 I gently placed it on the corner of the bed while I worked to store all of the other goodies in the closet space that I'm provided.

 Once I returned to the huge book, I flipped to a Randoom page and pointed at a town.

 The town was very small, so I wanted another.

 This next town was just a bit bigger. I wanted honest-to-god cities, not suburban satellites.

 What do you know, I hit Albequerque.

 Started reading up on the place and it's quite a story, but not this one.

 The one thing that stood out to me was the listing of it's sister cities.

 Sister cities are beneficial ties that any city can make with another in the world, upon agreement.

 It was a snore-fest looking at the list, if I'm honest, but I laugh in my sleep and found a peculiar oddity.

 Most of the cities were tied to others in different countries. Not Waikiki, Hawaii's. No.

 It's sister city is Bixby, Oklahoma. I haven't ever been there, but something in me wanted to go a little further here.

 Bullet is the name of their rag. I'm down for flaunting the second amendment, but I'm not sure that's where they were going when they named it. Anyway, I checked out the latest issue and was in insta-shock when I saw the front page.

Woah, just wait a freakin' minute!

 What? For those that can't tell from the pic, those boys are playing a version of Quidditch, from the Harry Potter series.

 I saw this and was instantly inflamed. Apologies to all the fans, and J.K. Rowling if offense is taken by these next logical statements.

 First, there is a flying ball in quidditch. I've not watched the full movie sets, but I do know that rule. That was the rule that made it cool to me. That is the one rule that if they ignore, they're all just playing a version of polo with a plain jane volleyball, while riding on brooms.

 Why make an actual extra-curricular activity from the Potter series? Because it's popular. I wish it were because the game is cool, but alas, it's not too exciting when compared to the silver screen version.

 I can think of several different games that only exist in fiction that should become school sports. Number one of all is Orson Scott Card's battle room from his Ender's Game series.

 "Wait, Shock. You are expecting children to shoot a freezing adhesive at each other while flying around a room in zero gravity with ropes and such?", asks my even-more-cynical invisible girlfriend.

 "Ah, just wait for technology to catch up. I'll even start getting interested in this Quidditch game,

                                                  WHEN BALLS FLY!"