Unsolved mysteries.

After pulling off the biggest upset of the year in Vegas youth basketball Riggs decided he wanted to hit the town Saturday night - "Dude, look at that broad. I bet you never saw any of that stuff in Kansas. She has to be the most beautiful girl I have ever seen." Both of us were perched on a bar stool at the Lodge on Durango. A rather attractive women had just walked by, he adds, "You know something Jethro, in all the time I have known you I think I can remember you talking about Kansas girls only a handful of times. All you talk about nowadays is women in Las Vegas, which you have no shot with. Tell me about a broad from Kansas."

Riggs is well groomed, well spoken, well mannered. He's the cat's meow (at least he thinks he is). Any way, I sift through my memory bank and come up with a friend of mine from way back in the day - "Riggs, there was this one girl I knew when I was young. I tell you she was something else. Most beautiful girl I have ever seen. She would put any of these Las Vegas girls to shame."

"A girl from Kansas would put a Las Vegas girl to shame. Come on dude. That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard." Riggs is a back east guy in his roots. He thinks Kansas is the hinterlands - "I am serious as a heart attack. She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw." After the statement he gives me  a puzzling look, and says - "This is a girl who you went out with?" I nod my head yes, he says - "Why in the world would a girl like the one you're describing go out with a village idiot like you?"

It was a fair enough question, so I roll it around in my head for a few moments, I then say, " I really don't know how I got her to go out with me. It just happened. It is still a mystery to this day."