From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019013111565912581-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Tell me about it.  My wife is from Kankakee.    I've been in many a snow   
   > storm around there :-)   
      
   I'd like to move to where winter is only a word ;)   
      
   > oddnees .... band girl bailed on yesterdays duo gig.  That's fine, she had   
   > heart surgery three years ago and still has problems out in the cold.  So   
   > I did it solo.  Gig got moved from a free standing community center   
   > building to the central dining / social area of a retirement home across   
   > the street.  Didn't want the seniors out in the cold.   
      
   It's no good for the juniors, sophomores, or freshmen either ;)   
      
   > Then, about 15 minutes before it would have been over, they came up to me,   
   > said wrap it up, said an ambulance was on the way, need everyone out   
   > before it gets there.   
      
   What's an ambulance got to do with it?   
      
   > So, yeah, " thanks everybody, see you again in a few weeks ".    They   
   > didn't tell me why the ambulance, but hey, watch me clear out.  When I was   
   > going in someone parked a golf cart on the main entrance area, so my   
   > little gear carrying cart couldn't get by.  I wheeled it up over some   
   > ornamental gardening area, rather than try to track down the driver. So,   
   > whatever the emergency was, I was scootin'.   
      
   They call anything an 'emergency', and most of it isn't.   
      
   > Once, many years ago someone had a heart attack at one of our shows.   
      
   That's not very encouraging to say the least.   
      
   > Lady right in the front rows.  We didn't get out of there quick enough,   
   > the ambulance blocks the doors we needed, and we had to sit the whole   
   > affair out until they left. Learned from that, if warned, pack it up and   
   > head for the cars.   
      
   If the emergency was real, they shouldn't have been there very long - just   
   load up and zoom to the hospital.   
      
   > By the time I could pack up and get things in my car, yep, emt vehicles   
   > all over the lot.  Quick response, then s-l-o-w .. .so guess is, well, you   
   > know, after some point there's no hurry.   
      
   An 'emergency' convention? Maybe it was contagious ;)   
      
   > I don't mean any disrespect. Just pointing out that these things happen if   
   > you start working the seniors gigs.   
      
   Kind of makes me tend to lose interest in those kinds of gigs.   
      
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   > No gig today, so I won't be going out.   
      
   > unless .....   
      
   > ok, totally unrelated ...   
      
   > My brother and I bought a pallet of bottled ice tea. We were supposed to   
   > pick it up last evening. Told us it's more than one pickup truck can   
   > carry, so bring several or make multiple trips. Cool.  I don't know how   
   > much that actually is, it's in bottles, was some Amazon overstock or   
   > return deal or something.  Friend of my brothers owns one of those   
   > companies that disposes of bent and dent or just past the " sell by " date   
   > merchandice, several " factory outlet " stores.  A pallet ? I'm thinking   
   > my half is somewhere between 600 and 800 bottles.  Hahhhhhaaahaha.  It'll   
   > take me a year to drink that :-)   But, now with the cold, where's our   
   > stuff ?   Is it in some semi trailer parked somewhere ?  Those drink will   
   > freeze and shatter, won't they ?  Shipment was supposed to be in the   
   > warehouse as of last night, but it was closed due to cold.   
      
   Iced tea is my favorite beverage, if It's good - so what kind did you have   
   an entire pallet of?   
      
   Aaaaaaarghhhhh ......  on the good side, I haven't handed over any $$$   
   yet, so if the shipment is lost somehow, oh well.   
      
   > As I said, the gig ended short.  It was cold out, but so what.  I had a   
   > yearly eye exam earlier in the day, so was up and the van was well warmed   
   > before I headed of to sing for the seniors.   
      
   But if it's extremely cold, after the gig, it won't be so warm ;)   
      
   > If you have to explain a joke, it pretty much didn't work, right ???   
      
   I don't know - the bitter cold seems to have frozen my sense of humor too ;)   
      
   > I was pointing out that I'd just call AAA for road service. Now that   
   > everyone carries a cell phone, breaking down isn't as awful as it was in   
   > the past.   
      
   That's true enough, but the cold is still miserable.   
      
   > Reference to the Kenyan was   .....   Obama once commented that if the   
   > Congress wouldn't pass legislation to do what he wanted, he would rule (   
   > would go around the Congress )  by using his " phone and a pen ".  And he   
   > did just that more than once.   
      
   As in his 'Executive' ODORS?   
      
   > So modifying that, I implied I could get by in a road emergency with  " a   
   > phone and some gloves ".   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   No, that Sleazy ploy is only for Scumbags!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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