If anyone has any enlightening/funny stories about Fritz please post them here..
El Mirage meet. Not sure what month and year, and some of it is a little foggy, but:
The Fritz camp always had a few energetic dirty boys riding bikes around in the heat and dust all day. Fritz built a shower off the side of his pickup to cool off with, and also to rinse the boys off with before loading everything in the truck and heading for pasture.
...so he's got the shower going and has the little one (maybe Jason?) in his arms. He's shuttling the kid back and forth while rotating him - kinda like you'd eat a corn cob - under the shower water. The kid is naturally wryly and ends up squirting himself right out of Fritz' arms into a puddle that had now formed at Fritz' feet.
Those watching winced at the fall and expected to hear some crying from the boy. To our collective delight, they all burst into laughter - including Gayle.
Fritz reaches down to retrieve the boy, and in doing so, he himself slips in the famously snotty El Mirage mud and ends up in the mud puddle. It only gets funnier as he tries repeatedly to fetch the boy, who is now only exploiting the advantage of now being both wryly and slippery! They both end up covered in mud and everyone in eyesight is lauging and grabbing cameras - myself included.
Fritz eventually succeds in getting a hand around the boy, righting himself, and starting the rinse-off all over - first the boy, with the corn cob method - then himself. I think he was still laughing when he shut the water off. This time, he'd successfully handed the boy off to Gayle, waiting nearby for the handoff.
I never got to talk to him like I'd always intended. I guess I always thought he'd live forever.
-The Other Glen (SCTA 966B)