Re: AIS:Conventions-Long
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AIS:Conventions-Long
- From: w*
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:36:43 -0600
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> Sometimes there is a little excitement when a bus gets lost or breaks
> down. We were Bus Captains in Detroit when our bus to the Zoo wouldn't
> start to begin with and after it finally got going stalled again. That's
> just to keep everyone awake. The gardens are worth seeing no matter what
> happens. Sometimes we even get a bonus of seeing some beautiful scenery
> along the way.
> It's really a great experience.
>
> Dorothy Willott
Oh, Dorothy, I could tell some funnies, too. The bus we were on
in San Diego was a clunker with a dead battery. We had to get shoved
off by another bus all day when we left a garden. That bus was
retired that very day. This must have been in the days before
booster cables, I don't remember. Also, in San Diego, at lunch one
day, a gentleman was sitting at our table and told the waiter he was
a vegetarian and could he bring a different plate. After what seemed
like an eternity, the waiter returned with a ham and cheese sandwich!
The 'Marie Caillet' bus in Ft. Worth is a bus 'that will live in
infamy.' It broke down in Bells, TX, on the way to Gordon Green's
garden. We had to be shuttled by another bus. It took people on to
the garden and then returned for us. But, getting back to the hotel
was another story. Some didn't get back until 9 p.m. The bus we got
on to return was hardly better than 'Marie Caillet,' but we finally
made it back.
These aren't usual convention occurrences, but when you think
about them later, they are funny. At the time, no!
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
