Paintball War

  I got a call about ten minutes before our plane left from Charlotte to California.  It was Matt B. our crew chief.   He said, "Trent, by the way, we got a deal set up at 4 o'clock to play some paint ball so tell the guys to be at the hotel lobby by 3:30".  OK, couple of problems here Matt, first off we had no idea that we were gonna play paintball so most of the guys had only one change of cloths.  Second, we get into LA at about 1 or so and its a good hour to hour and a half to the hotel.  So at best we are barely gonna make it.  The bus load voted 5 to 2 not to play paintball and go into LA for the afternoon instead.  So that brings me to the paintball game that was played by the guys on the road.  I think there was about 12 of them that played Saturday afternoon.  When the whole team met up on Sunday morning to go to the track it was like a group of vets getting together talking about there stories.  All the guys were circled around a table comparing battle wounds.  It was kind of funny hearing about all the stories that were being told.  One of the guys helping with the motor tuning for the weekend looked like he had been peppered across the arm about 15 times.  Swell marks about the size of a quarter.  Then there were the legs.  everyone had a slower walk than usual Sunday.  I think a couple of em took some shots to the legs pretty hard.  I know Ryan did cause he had a hard time stretching before the race.  All in all the guys said it was an awesome time playing and they we had to do it with em next time.