bad bounce

i played soccer again tonight as a sub for a friend’s team, at the last minute. indoor, with boards, on unforgiving vct flooring (don’t ask me why i know about flooring products). it’s been a year since i played half an hour of goal with boards, which constitutes the whole of my previous experience. i gifted the opposition two or three goals through misplaying bounces off the boards and misunderstanding the rather bizarre ground rules, and gave up five goals in the first fifteen minutes, no doubt leading the team for whom i was making a guest appearance to wonder if bad help was better than no help at all. and then only two in the last thirty-five, neither of which were my bad. i’m still not sure i’m a goalie. but i’m not not a goalie, either. i also took a ball in the junk and smashed up my heel on said flooring. worst of it all, we lost by one goal, so it’s rather obviously my fault. which sucks.