Your woman doesn't play paintball? GOOD!
My girlfriend does play. She didn't when we started dating, but I made the mistake of taking her with me when I went out for some recball at Challenge Park. Then a couple months later she came in with me when I went to talk to a local field owner about promoting a college event in the area. Apparently when I wasn't looking she saw a flyer from a girls team looking for new members and grabbed one of the tabs with the phone number. Couple weeks later she's borrowing my stuff to practice.
I used to own one HALO. Now I own two. I used to own one pack. Now I own two. Used to buy one plane ticket to go to tournaments, now two tickets. I was going to sell 2 markers, now I've bought another one (it's her X-Mas gift, so shhhh.....).
Not only does she actually PLAY more paintball than I do, her sponsorship is better than mine is too!
The last girlfriend didn't like paintball at all. She didn't hold it against me, but I took her out to play once, after explaining the whole capture the flag thing, her response was "Why? Can't I just go back to the car now instead of standing out here for 20 minutes before going back to the car?" That was the last time she played. But at least she would still come to my tournaments to watch me. The girlfriend who plays expects me to go to her tournaments to watch her! What's up with that?
Oh, yeah, one more thing: If your girlfriend starts playing, do NOT NOT NOT let her join an all girls team. You think having to listen to gossip about her friends is bad, just wait until you're privy to all the BS gossip that goes down on a women's team. Makes Avalanche look like best friends.
Anyway, I'm not sure that having a woman who likes paintball is such a good thing.
- Chris
