Posted August 29th
Tuesday August 28th the Lincoln Band joined in the celebration at the Sioux Falls Convention Center at the Welcome Home Party for Senator Tim Johnson. Due to the rain, there was hardly anybody standing around to hear the band. The kids, in their band shirts rather than uniforms, did get to move inside afterwards.
As a Roadie, the event was a test of patience to say the least. Only four pit kids showed up on time to unload the trailers, so they barely got set up in time.
The "fun" began after the performance. In attempting to get the pit trailer some stupid %&!@#?*$! parked in the 1/2 remaining space right in front of the trailer AND another one parked between the bus and the trailer! This is why they don't allow guns at political events.
Never ones to back down from a challenge without a fight, Dean and Jeff tried to manually move the trailer out of its parking place. First, they hooked a chain up hoping to pull it out and just let the block slide along the pavement. Of course, the jack simply slid off the block. Then Dean grabbed a 2x4 and tried to pry up the end while Jeff pushed it. But they couldn't steer. Finally, they tried to use the small floor jack to lift the tongue and roll it out. But the wheels of the jack were too small and got stuck in the little cracks in the asphalt (it was the ass'-fault). The tongue again slid off the jack, and they were back to square one.
They were standing there when the lady finally came out to her car (nearly the last one to leave). "Oh, you want me to move that?" YA THINK??? This caused approximately a two-hour delay getting out and back to LHS. When the (insert your own derogatory adjective here) finally showed up and moved her car, the tongue was sitting so low that Jeff had to jump up and down on the bumper of Dean's Yukon(do-it) as Dean eased back under the hitch.
