Mom Nature is Watering this Saturday so no E@RTC…again.

I know, I know. This is more disappointing than the Carcinogen Platter at “Famous” you-know-who’s. I recently had their brisket sandwich which tasted like smoldering house fire. It was like chewing burnt couch. All I could taste was char for about two days. I think it’s famous because it’s bad.

I don’t think we’ve set a record for the most consecutive rained out Saturdays just yet, but we get closer to that record every Saturday. This has happened in the past were we will go four or five Saturdays in a row, but we always seem to make it up with a long string of nice Saturdays, and we suspect that will still happen…okay maybe not. It’s the Northwest.

In the last few weeks we’ve had more car qualification questions thrown at us than ever before. We don’t mind because they help us refine the criteria page, but even then, there will always be grey areas to sort out. It’s not an exact science. You’re asking us more questions than you did of that crustacean on your first date. You know, the one you now try to forget and all your friends still laugh about.

We always answer criteria questions as fast as we can but now and then it takes us a day or two to respond. Sometime we don’t know the answer and we’ll throw a mini-convention at some swank hotel and sit behind tall pitchers of water and little cups of crappy Chex Mix nobody likes and debate the car. Not really, we just email each other until we have an answer that seems reasonable.

In spite of how many times we say it, we’re not a modded show. Yet, people keep thinking that by listing every mod, we’re going to say yes. That’s a bit like describing all your tats. It just doesn’t move the needle.

We say that over and over and for good reason. If we had to single out one group for bad behavior, that’s generally the direction it drifts every time. Pun intended. Even when the modders are spectators, there are still some who behave badly and ruin just about any car show they attend. They never seem to get the fragility of all car shows, even the most swank. Not that we’re swank in any way.

We’re big supporters of all car events, and we’d love to see everyone do well, but it means all shows have to change and be strict about it and crack down on all bad behavior or all shows get painted with the same brush. We have a great thing going in the Northwest with such a strong car community and we want to keep building it.

We’ve offered tips and advice to others who want to put on events, and the one thing they miss every time, is they always forget to police their own event, and are soon shut down, and cause a problem for all other shows. There are a lot of people who don’t like cars, which is hard to believe, but they do exist. Any Prius is a clue of their existence now that I think about it.

We’ll try again next Saturday.