more jon

I am moved by hearing of the echoing of my own feelings in the entries here. But most of all I loved hearing the stories about Jon. I guess I just need more Jon. I thought I would share a Jon story to hear some in return. When we were living in San Francisco we would start every saturday night at my house watching COPS and then head down to the local. One time, after a few pints, the talk somehow turned to gymnastics and jon said, "while you might not know it to look at me I'm very athletic when it comes to balance." "no way" I replied. "I bet you a beer that I can hold a handstand longer than you can", Jon challenged. I, being someone who was not going to back down a challenge although gymnastics is not my strong suit, promptly threw my hands to the floor and went up for what I can say was the longest handstand of my life. After four, maybe five seconds I started to loose it but had to milk it for all it was worth in case Jon was "on" that night. On the way down, I crashed into both the jukebox (skipping the song) and the pinball machine (tilting the game) before popping up triumphally to challenge Jon. He said in one comma free sentence. "What are you kidding I get dizzy bending over what kind of beer do you want"