We are…
…on for Exotics at Redmond Town Center for Saturday, May 10th. This is more exciting than involuntary crowd surfing a nun at a Barry Manilow concert. Sister Mandy suddenly regretted her name.
We get a lot of questions about classics, and people ask me, “Hey Chemo-Sabe, when does my car become a classic?” Probably about the time your mom can’t work that street corner. Hopefully, it’s more obvious than that date you had where they talked about the third time they were in jail. We have almost all of your answers on our criteria page—except for who you date. Read our criteria first, and if that doesn’t answer your question, then write us.
I keep thinking about us kids growing up in the back of station wagons where, in an accident, we’d fly through windows like lawn darts and everyone would praise us for how far we flew. If we burned up in back, our parents just got busy having more kids. We were just as disposable as the groceries we hauled. I spent hours looking at the back of my dad’s head.
We grumble answering questions that are easy to find on our website because they burn up volunteer time when it’s all right there. It’s like people asking if we’re on or not before we’ve made the decision. I tell them to check the blog after 3 PM every Thursday. This isn’t Fresno, you know. There is a reason all those people ended up there. We try and keep it all really simple and easy to find answers..
Because we’re an all-volunteer group, we work hard at sustaining a high-quality environment for the volunteers. This includes a lot of time management so we’re not burning out our people. Without them, we have no show. When we get armadillos who both attend and badmouth us at the same time, well, we know they don’t help themselves. It’s a bit like putting your hand in the social wood chipper. Everyone wonders why? Then we wonder if you’re going to do a leg next.
While we don’t mind constructive feedback and we answer every email about what’s knotted up your undies, we have some who just take shots for no justifiable reason that we know about. It’s like a Karen stumbling out of a bar. You know it’s probably not wifey material.
We’re just guys in a parking lot on a Saturday morning having fun. If that frustrates you, there are lots of therapists out there who’d love to address your pathology and sign you up for a ten-year plan of couch crying. We’re just out to have a good time with a themed show. It shouldn’t be a crisis in anyone’s world. We’re not Denny’s at 2 AM.
Our season so far has gone very smoothly with a minimum of bad behavior. We think the message has gotten around, and the benefit to all of us is that it helps us sustain the event for even more years. Thank you!
It’s hard to know what’s going to happen with mall construction, but we have multiple backup plans. It’s kind of a shame what’s happened to Redmond, but we’ll roll with it. Our first loyalty will always be to Redmond Town Center, who has supported us from the very beginning. It’s been a wonderful relationship through multiple owners, and all see the good for the community. The City of Redmond has been good to us overall so we’re not complaining. See you all on Saturday!