Stephen Potter

Proud husband.
Father of two little ones.
Over 40's week day cricketer.
Founding member of the 🍪♣️.

A.V.A.M.O

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@RucksSake 100 %, however me shouting at the TV made no difference to England decision making, I don't know why I bother 😫

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@MarkWilsonRadio Only just !!

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@NoContextCounty

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If there was one graphic to sum up TNT's coverage of The Ashes so far ........
Making 40 runs out of a score of 4-0 off 1 over is some going from Usman and picking up 1 wicket whilst on a plane back home for Jofra is pretty amazing too - shambles !

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The days between Christmas and New Year…

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Jamie Bowman @JamieBowman77]

Wirral teenager wins prestigious cricketing prize https://t.co/1o4apugIVJ

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@JacobLunn11 Fantastic 👍👍

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Heat / cooking

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@Rajiv1841 Graeme Hick

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Ringo

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@tomward77 Excellent question, you can tell a lot by the answers, even more if you ask the only required follow up question. 🍪♣️🍞?

[(Win Something) Viktor Hovland Tracker @HoviTracker]

A little history lesson for you American fans: You guys have actually used this rule to your advantage before in a Ryder Cup where it actually mattered. The final score of the 1991 Ryder Cup was 14.5-13.5 US. If Europe had gotten the full point, then they would’ve retained the cup

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Steve Pate 1991 car crash Wednesday but played day 2 and Sam Torrance 1993 infected toe = Envelope rule been in play since 1979

13-15 anyway.

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@YGTRory @Daniel_Rapaport No neck rolls though 😂

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- The Europeans played some very defensive golf today the amount of short irons and putts left short let USA belief grow.

All in all, a win is a win, however USA team were amazing today.

What an utterly absorbing 3 days.

3/3

[Stephen Potter @S55JNP]

Some random thoughts after the final day of the Ryder Cup

- An amazing effort from the USA.
- DeChambeau's comeback for a tie especially admirable from being 5 down.
- The amount of adverts shown at crucial times instead of live golf was ridiculous.

1/3

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- The Americans will possibly moan a lot about Hovland's injured half point for many years to come, but in the end it wasn't crucial.
- Sir Nick Faldo was just almost bearable until he told us his prediction was 13-15 

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