let's have a party...
JIM... this has all the makings for a great video for the bar... now if you only had tricycles to have tricycle races
(for the adults)... it could become a yearly event to raise money for the kids and the schools...
(it's just a thought)
-key in the harp time travel music-
way back in 1974 when I was a junior in high school, we skipped school the friday before the labor day holiday and went to a city park and got drunk
(as kids often did in small rural towns in Illinois)
after several hours of partying it came time to decide "do I spend my last 69 cents for another bottle of Ripple Pagan Pink? or do we all pool our money together and give it as a donation to the Jerry Lewis MD Telethon? we all decided to do the latter, and this was the beginning of "D for D" a.k.a. "Drunks for Dystrophy"
-key in the time travel music again-
skip ahead to the year 1982
(my last summer in Illinois before moving to AZ) and "D for D" had become a regular event in our town. the city would snow-fence off the entire park.
Del Monte Farms would drop off a truckload of sweet corn which we cooked and given away to all at the party, local butchers would donate steaks to be sold, and of course there was beer... plenty of beer...
the city would allow us to go through 33 kegs of beer. didn't know where they came up with that number until it came time to pay for it, and we then found out one of my buddys father that owned the local Pabst distributorship had donated it.
that year we had collected and turned in over $5000.00 in donations to the Jerry Lewis MD Telethon... every labor day brings back fond memories of getting totally drunk and actually doing some good and helping out someone less fortunate...
funny how people become far more generous when they get all "poop-faced"