Title: the Cryptmas Parade
Tags: rant
Blog Entry: the Cryptmas Parade sucked. my husbands boss is a dork, i swear. first he didn't want to have anything much to do with the float. he wanted a float in the parade for advertisement, but didn't want to do any of the work. that's ok i guess, cause i'm a worker-as is Danny... bossman just sat all day at his desk pecking on his computer *eyeroll* i gave him simple things to do: have a banner made for the back of it, find a wreath (greenery only, i would decorate it personally), and rent a generator or buy a power inverter, so the trailers decorative lights would actually work. and he did NONE of these things. none. THEN as the float began to take shape, and customers started coming in to see my progress, he started wanting to pull it in the parade with his truck. mmm kay. BUT he wouldn't back his truck into the shop daily for me to hook it up (the trailer is a 16 foot single axle utility trailer, it has to be hooked to a vehicle for anyone to climb on it to work or it will tip up) so i hooked the Ranger to it every day. the lights work fine while hooked to my Ranger, btw. bossman, of course, was supposed to get a different hook-up for his truck so we'd have taillights, turn signals and brake lights. he didn't do that either! AND Advance Auto is RIGHT NEXT DOOR! i kept mentioning that we needed to get the generator/inverter and hook his truck up and test all the lights. he kept stalling. he stalled until the NIGHT OF THE PARADE in fact. and then, guess what? the inverter he brought wouldn't pull the lights. it popped fuse after fuse. that inverter is made for a freekin' laptop computer. WHY did he think it would pull a float full of lights? why? so. no lights on my float that i worked so hard on. no banner for the back of it (and i came up with a FANTASTIC slogan too) no wreath. then... it turns out that he obviously doesn't know how to pull a trailer. he was driving so stupid on the way to the parade route that the roof came aloose. we had to tack it together with whatever we could find. and then when we started off in the parade, he lurched onto the gas and flipped the bubble machine out of the chimney and broke it. thank goodness it wasn't my new smoke/bubble machine! talk about being MAD... i was FUMING. all my hard work, unappreciated and destroyed. the one good thing that happened that night was i was riding in the back of the truck, and i saw Russell in the crowd. he called me on my celly, and we have cooked up a plan for next year. starting a Halloween Parade here would be impossible-BUT since Russell is a local business owner, he can have a float in the parade *evil smile* i can't wait until next year! what does this have to do with Halloween, you may ask? everything. it's gonna be a Nightmare Before Christmas float and hopefully Danny can have his coffin go-kart going by then! GOOD TIMES!
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