Bits & Pieces

(Persian News,  Dec 94)

 

Shampoo Explosion?

Do y'all remember when I wrote about Jeannie a few issues ago?  She is the one who answered the newspaper ad and ended up bying a grandable red male for $500.00.

Well, some time ago she asked me how to make fungus shampoo.  I told her equal parts of, and mixed in this order in an open glass container: bleach, betadine, water and Dawn.  Seems easy, right?   Well, she put the ingredients together in a plastic gallon milk jug.  This would have been ok except that she put the cap on and shook the jug to mix!

Those of you who have used this shampoo know what happens when you add the Dawn.  The mixture foams and releases a gas, so it should be put outside, or at least under the range hood, for an hour or so.

The gallon that Jeannie shook enlarged like a water balloon and was warm to the touch.  She was sure it would explode.  I am suprised that it did not.  She promtly put it outside and ended up throwing it away!

 

Show Cages - 1  Table- 0

Murphy's Law says that no matter how complete your plans are, something will go wrong.  Our show was Oct 22-23, 1994.  Like all clubs, we had many meetings pre-show.  Friday, Oct. 21 arrived and we were all at the show hall bright and early at 9:00 AM.  In the upper northwest we are lucky to have the Lions Club.  They own show cages, tables and stanchions.  Most of the clubs here pay them to set up and tear down the hall.

Well, they arrived Friday at 11:00 AM, right on time.  They had half of the cages set up when they approached me and asked where the tables were to put the rest of the cages on.  "Tables?  What do you mean, where are the tables?  I talked to your coordinator last week and told him that we only had tables for the vendors and the judges' rings.  You were to supply enough tables and stanchions for all the cages!"

By now all work had come to a halt.   The hall was still.  I looked up to see all eyes on me.  Oh my goodness, did I misunderstand?  I'm thinking.  How do I explain my error to my club members, the exhibitors and CFA.  All of this goes through my mind in a flash.  I think back to my phone conversation with the Lions member.   I remember clearly telling him how many stanchionn were needed (our entry was 218).   After what seemed like an eternity, one of the Lion members said he would call the boss.

We all went back to work, I waited two hours - all the time acting unconcerned - I could wait no longer.  I approached the Lion member to ask, "What did you work out?"

What had happend was the Lions had just purchased more cages and stanchions and they were to be picked up that day in Portland, which is 40 miles south, and brought to our hall, but they forgot to tell the Lion member with the other truck that today was the day.

Here is the chain of events that occurred that made it possible for us to get the missing stanchions:

1. One of our judges belonged to the club that sold their cages  to the Lions.  She happened to be off work that Friday and at home.  It so happened that her husband's pickup truck was available.

2. She had to go downtown to get the key to the storage area from another club member who just happened to have the key at work with her.

3. They had to drive across town to the storage are, load up 75 stanchions and bring them 40 miles (one way) to us.  She showed up at 3:00 PM and receifed an enthusiastic greeting from all of us.

When someone does something nice for me, I often think of the song with the phrase, "I get by with a little help from my friends."  We still finished seup by 5:00PM and on Sunday we were done with tear down at 7:15 PM.  Now we can enjoy the next twelve months before we have to do it again.

 

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