November 22 2008
Well, gang, A really oddball thing happened this week.
One of our members, "Big Bob," threw his annual National Smoke Out party to commemorate his quitting smoking a few years back. And it’s always held around National Smoke Out Day.
He and a Cajun guy brought a big smoker and lots of mesquite and more sausage, hot dogs, ribs, beans and potato salad than folks could ever eat. And it was free, to any and every body.
While the Cajun guy was firing up the smoker, "Big BOB," who hadn’t given up alcohol, started knocking back the beer with Irish whisky chasers.
He was inviting people to stick their fingers into his homemade barbeque sauce, which was really good, as usual, when somebody asked him how much all this meat and cheese had cost him. "It must have cost a fortune." The guy exclaimed.
"Actually, 'Big Bob" said, "This year, it cost almost nothing."
"How come?" the guy asked.
"Well, remember hurricane 'Ike?'"
"Yeah." Said the guy.
"Well, the Krogers near me lost all power and threw hundreds of pounds of meat and cheese and stuff like that into their dumpster. Me and the Cajun over there heard about it and loaded up about four Igloos of the stuff and put it all in my big home freezer. I still had power."
"You mean to say that all this stuff we’re eating came out of a dumpster?" the guy shouted.
"Damned right ." said "Big Bob"
Next thing you know this guy is screaming to the crowd that the food that they were eating was salvaged from a dumpster.
The reactions varied. While it should be noted that the canines at the gathering couldn’t seem to get enough, and gave the hungry eye to anyone holding a plate, there were a couple of lawyers who were trying to piece together some possible legal proceedings.
Some folks just wished that they hadn’t found out about it.
A few of the more civic-minded wanted to get in touch with the Board of Health, or call the cops.
A pretty brunette got spectacularly sick to her stomach, but most people just laughed and went back for seconds.
When the cops arrived, they seemed to think that the barbeque sauce was top drawer, but that the potato salad tasted a little too commercial. They congratulated "Big Bob" on quitting smoking and arrested the pretty brunette for public intoxication.
Afterward, "Big Bob" said that maybe he shouldn’t have said anything about the dumpster.
Yeah...Maybe.

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary