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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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I've hit a few pot holes lately. We organised a BBQ at the school for federal election day as it is a polling place and heaps of hungry people come in and out all day. We were hoping to make a few quid for the school so Lisa and I put a lot of effort into ensuring that everything was sorted and ready to go. I turned up at 9am on election day to meet the groundsman so that he could unlock a few doors and get the school's BBQ out for me only to find the local footy club already setup and selling what looked to be very tasty egg and bacon rolls. Apparently the school had forgotten that they had given them the OK to setup in the same spot a few weeks before we asked. There was no point in us setting up beside them as we would have been out in the full sun and no one would have walked past us so we pulled the plug and went home. What a waste of effort! We split most of the food and drink up between us at cost and ended up loosing only about $40 on the day. Then I was invited to represent the P&F at the grade 10 leavers assembly. I asked if I would be presenting any prizes and was told no. Twenty minutes before I was due to arrive I decided to iron a business shirt as I had been invited to the special morning tea for invited guests, politicians and so on and thought I should look presentable. When I arrived someone mentioned that I was in the order of service as presenting two awards. Hmmmm, someone must have got their wires crossed. No problem, at least I had a half decent shirt and tie on! When it was my turn to present the first award I made my way up on stage in front of about 800 people only to be shooed away. Senator Carol Brown had been given my presentation but nobody had bothered to tell me. I walked back off stage with all 1600 (I assume they all had two) eyes following me. It was a bit embarrassing to say the least as most people would have thought that I had stuffed up. I had no longer sat back down again when I was called back up to present the next award. At least that was it as my name was nowhere else to be seen in the order of service. Imagine my surprise when I was called back up a few minutes later to do yet another presentation. I did the whole handshake, chat, smile, turn, walk back off stage thing, only to be waved back on stage because they wanted me to do another one!!!! Aaaargghhh. Emma was sitting down the back of the hall and must have been laughing herself silly watching her silly dad walking back and forth with no clue at all what was expected of him. The purpose of the day was to celebrate the grade 10 leavers and that was certainly done. I was amazed when the two SRC captains gave an awesome speech about their grade 10 supervisor and the whole place stood and cheered. They obviously think a lot of Miss Michelle Graham. At the end they all walked out to a standing ovation led by a Scottish guy playing the bagpipes. Apparently it's a KHS tradition.
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