Anyone remember the CHS Band trip to Disney World in 1997? An entire marching band, their instruments and chaperones loaded into 6 (7? 5?) buses, caravaning to Florida. First incident was the issue of the Senior Bus. And one senior's annoying Freshmen girlfriend and her friends. Of course, they whined enough to ride with us. Incident #2 involves a woman named Cheryl who deserves to have her license pulled and then she should be held in a deep freeze for hours. Cheryl was our over night bus driver. She was falling asleep at the wheel... so she turned the air conditioner on so high that most of the Class of '98 (along with a few Freshmen) got sick from the cold. Yeah... Cheryl. Our saving grace? Band Mamas Radke and Smith bullied the evil Cheryl into submission, and a 65+ temperature, as opposed to 40 degrees in tanks & shorts.
The last major incident occurred on our stop over in Cocoa Beach, Florida. A few days for the Iowa kids on the beach. We made a stop at Ron Jon's Surf Shop and Anousha and I happened to step into the glass elevator with the senior boy and his freshmen girlfriend and her gaggle of annoying friends. And they proceed to tempt fate by jumping up (together) in the elevator to see what happens. And when the elevator gets confused... it gets stuck. For 2+ hours. With the annoying freshmen and one other semi-normal person besides us. With 3 glass walls where everyone proceeds to stare and make fun of us. Yeah... It's been almost 11 years and I still do not like long car rides or elevators.
So, when I saw this article in the New Yorker, it brought back all of those memories. And I thought I'd share. :) Check it out:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators
The last major incident occurred on our stop over in Cocoa Beach, Florida. A few days for the Iowa kids on the beach. We made a stop at Ron Jon's Surf Shop and Anousha and I happened to step into the glass elevator with the senior boy and his freshmen girlfriend and her gaggle of annoying friends. And they proceed to tempt fate by jumping up (together) in the elevator to see what happens. And when the elevator gets confused... it gets stuck. For 2+ hours. With the annoying freshmen and one other semi-normal person besides us. With 3 glass walls where everyone proceeds to stare and make fun of us. Yeah... It's been almost 11 years and I still do not like long car rides or elevators.
So, when I saw this article in the New Yorker, it brought back all of those memories. And I thought I'd share. :) Check it out:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators
4 comments:
I had completely forgotten about freezing out on the bus! My mom was never shy when it came to the best interest of her band kids, that's for sure! Since it was so long ago, was that before or after the bus broke down?! I'm trying to figure out who the annoying freshman in the story was...like I said, it all seems so long ago!
I can't remember when the bus actually broke down, but that wasn't our bus that broke. We got Cheryl instead. :)
The annoying senior/freshmen combo was Chris Swales and Brianna Bousman, and all her little friends.
Chuckle Chuckle. I had forgotten about the glass elevator incident. Can I just say that for a moment I was thankful that I stayed at the beach and opted not to go to the surf shop. Hmm, that was until I realized I had developed the most horrible sunburn ever. :)
Chris Swales is still on my shit list for that elevator stunt. Cheryl can eat a ...well, you know. At least we got to go to Disney World. Remember Figment? And that horrible song when we were stuck on his ride? "Imaaaaa-gin-aaaaa-tion!"
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