Welcome October/Old Tyme Saturday
Hey.
Old Tyme Saturday is Jeff City's annual street party, which is sorta fun but not quite as much fun as it sounds. Yes, you have the prerequisites for such an event: lots of little tent booths packed up against one another, expensive snack food, charity appeals, lousy gospel music (lousy meaning that they try to give so much "weight" to the message that they can't be bothered to learn to perform music compentantly), obnoxious clowns, too few porta potties, on and on.
There are two main reasons why I go: the antique cars and the helium balloons. While I did take my camera, the antique car show was set up in a cramped parking lot that meant it was too crowded with both cars and people to allow good photography. (That and my camera's batteries are getting old and pooping out on me on shoots.) As for the balloons, I didn't get one because 1) the Fire Department had run out of helium gas, 2) USBank was running out of balloons, and I didn't want to deprive the kids, 3) I felt strange about the idea of getting one of the balloons a Cancer charity was offering. They had somehow gotten surplus foil balloons advertising a promotion involving Serta mattresses and the American Idol TV show. This was the first time I had ever seen in person anybody using foil balloons as giveaways.
I don't so much do Old Tyme Saturday for fun as much as I do it for exercize.
Old Tyme Saturday is Jeff City's annual street party, which is sorta fun but not quite as much fun as it sounds. Yes, you have the prerequisites for such an event: lots of little tent booths packed up against one another, expensive snack food, charity appeals, lousy gospel music (lousy meaning that they try to give so much "weight" to the message that they can't be bothered to learn to perform music compentantly), obnoxious clowns, too few porta potties, on and on.
There are two main reasons why I go: the antique cars and the helium balloons. While I did take my camera, the antique car show was set up in a cramped parking lot that meant it was too crowded with both cars and people to allow good photography. (That and my camera's batteries are getting old and pooping out on me on shoots.) As for the balloons, I didn't get one because 1) the Fire Department had run out of helium gas, 2) USBank was running out of balloons, and I didn't want to deprive the kids, 3) I felt strange about the idea of getting one of the balloons a Cancer charity was offering. They had somehow gotten surplus foil balloons advertising a promotion involving Serta mattresses and the American Idol TV show. This was the first time I had ever seen in person anybody using foil balloons as giveaways.
I don't so much do Old Tyme Saturday for fun as much as I do it for exercize.