One more thing........

Avatar for emty_nstr
Community Leader
Registered: 05-25-1999
One more thing........
7
Fri, 06-06-2003 - 10:39pm
This weekend is when we have what is around here called "Free Days"......more like free for all days.....

There is a dance tonight and tomorrow night and the cars the noise and what the kids call music so loud it makes your pictures fall off the walls. Kids running around which gets that dog barking wonderful, wonderful.......then tomorrow is the ping pong ball drop. I always dread that.

Oh, yes some of you newer ones don't know about that.

I live on main street so everything happens in front of the house. During these fun days they hire a plane to fly over and drop ping pong balls and some of them have numbers good for prizes. Problem? Most years they are dropped and they land right in my yard on my house. Now they don't cause any damage but when you have people lifting their brats up on my roof to look in the gutters it really makes me mad....they break tree branches and everything. I don't get a prize. The whole weekend is a big pain.....The kids don't stay in town for most of it and the adults hate it........but we do it for our kids.......yeah sure.....but they wouldn't give them a paddling but they will go out and get drunk at those dances.....I hate this weekend more than any others in the year.....

Janet
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 06-06-2003 - 10:57pm
Oh my, Janet!! Here's hoping Monday comes quickly and painlessly for you! Seren
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 06-06-2003 - 11:08pm
Oh noooo..not the Ping Pong weekend!! Arghhhh!! Hand those little darlings a tool for cleaning out your gutters while they're up there peeking around!! LOL!! Hope the people don't do any damage to your property this year, good luck!!..Susie

Hugs,

..

Avatar for gmapat539
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 06-07-2003 - 5:44am
Sorry for laughing, Janet. But you have a way of making even the worst things sound so funny. Hope you survive the weekend!--Pat
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-1999
Sat, 06-07-2003 - 6:59am
Oh no, is it time for the ping pong ball drop again? Gosh, it comes around quickly.

Can you go outside and put up a sign, telling those kids and their parents that any ping pong ball that lands on your property is YOURS to keep? Good luck, Janet. I know how you dread this weekend.....BB

Photobucket
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Sat, 06-07-2003 - 7:33am
What a bunch of horse doodoo!! It sounds like a weekend from "you know where"

to me.I'll be thinking about you Janet, hope all goes peacefully. Patti

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 06-07-2003 - 8:40am
Good Morning Janet on this Ping Pong Ball weekend. Gosh can't believe it is time for your town's traditional celebration. I will keep my fingers crossed that the wind will be coming from a direction that will blow all those ping pong balls away from your house.

Try to have a good weekend.

Hugs...Pab

Pab

Avatar for marmoranana
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 06-07-2003 - 9:02am
Janet, I consider myself an "oldie", but never heard that ping pong story before. I must have been napping. Egads, that is a hoot!! They actually lift their kids on your roof? It must sound kind of funny inside your house when all of those balls are dropping. That surely is a new one to me. You have me laughing, AGAIN.

Lanie