Just Three Weeks to Go!
“It’s the final countdown!”
Now I can’t get that song out of my head. Yup, we have just three weeks to go before we have our Opening Day rainout on April 1. You all know the drill. Nothing new with that after fourteen seasons. We’re putting the finishing touches on the admin stuff that leads up to each season and we’re on schedule. The volunteers have their kickoff meeting on the 19th, and the website is all updated.
Speaking of which, we have a lot more volunteers this season, but we could always use more if some of you are interested in joining the Beloved Thugs and being a part of this wonderful family. Even if your family tree resembles a drinking straw, you may still fit in. I think we’re up to about three dozen people, but there is always stuff to do to keep building this event. We have a lot to do, so let us know if you want to make that meeting March 19. We couldn’t do this without the volunteers and they should all be knighted by a king somewhere. No, not Burger King.
We don’t have any changes to our operations for this season other than we’ll be shifting some roles around as usual. The schedule of special events is now up for your perusal. The special event dates are set based on a range of considerations and logistics with the mall and finally after some debate, they settle in like good clean undies. No matter what, we’ll still get someone who writes us that they need us to move a date because they scheduled lip surgery that morning or something. The other lips.
We will go over a few reminders as we get closer. The biggest one of them all is how we treat bad behavior. Yeah, we put up the photos of you in your car and you get permanently banned without a warning. We stopped giving warnings about seven seasons ago. Look, the nuns we had in school never gave us a warning and we won’t either. They just threw you out the window and let God sort it out on the way down. I lost a lot of classmates. Some over nothing more than a fart giggle, may they rest in peace.
Behave badly and you’re out for good. Read our rules to understand what we mean and why. These fragile car events, and we can say we speak for all, will fall apart when one car driver creates a horrible image for everyone. People who see you just assumes from that day on that you have bad hygiene. If you don't have the self control to follow the rules when driving your mom’s car, you really shouldn’t attend. E@RTC is for mature drivers only. Oh, and you can get banned from the mall even if you’re a spectator, and it has happened, so just follow the rules and everyone will be forever in your debt. Why not be well regarded for once? We can all dream. Just be a good human. It’s not asking a lot.
This is about the time of year people write us to challenge our display criteria. It happens every pre-season when someone thinks they are extra special because their car is blue or because it has a tow ring. A tow ring screams that you don’t know how to drive. You’re like the guy who wears a life jacket around the pool.
Someone just wrote us, who clearly saw that their car didn’t fit the criteria, but then said, well mine is special. No, that doesn’t fly. We’ll think you're special when we see you glow in the dark.
Just so you know, we have not softened our position on Honda Type Rs, nor will be until 2078 and we may push that date out another decade or two.