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As Kris and Andy were walking down from their hike today, and I was waiting at the truck, Andy called to down to me, hey he had some discs, catch!

He threw them down, one at a time, with my almost catching a couple of them.

After gathering the four discs, I threw them back up to Andy one by one.

Except I didn't actually throw them TO Andy. My aim, strength and technique (or rather lack of each of those) sort of hindered the actual return process, with one of the discs ending up in Blue's mouth (which was fine) and another one ending up stuck in the top of a tree (not so fine).

I gathered up the remaining two discs, and was just about to start trying to figure out how to get the last one out of the tree, when Andy arrived from his previous advantage point on Crews Road.

He looked up at the disc in the tree, reached down, picked up a rock, and threw it at the disc. He missed.

Not a problem, though, as there were many rocks to throw. He reached down, picked up another rock, and threw it. And another. And another. And another. I waited for a few moments, then walked around the tree when he was looking for another rock to thrown. I picked up one the rocks Andy had thrown, hefted it up, and flung it at the disc.

I missed the disc by a foot, but caught the branch the disc was attached to, pulling it down, and popping the disc up and out on the return.

Andy stood up and looked up for the disc.

"Oh. You got it."

"Well, yes, so I did."

Probably the first, last, and only time luck is going to help me beat Andy in anything.