CircleK TOOK OVER the meeting today.
In anticipation of this event, PrezDenise quickly started the meeting, called on VC to lead us in what turned out to be a spirited GBA, and asked RevBill to lead the prayer—he called on God's blessings for President Obama, and for blessings on all of us as we change the world one child at a time.
InterclubBill announced interclub 7, a visit to the Kiwanis Club of Richmond January 14: Frank, Roberta, BC, VC, RevBill, Evie, JohnP and Traudel. Our own Evie was the featured speaker, on her trip to France.
The Sunshine Committee's first visit will be to Bob Brown this Friday. RevBill is the contact.
That was all the time allotted for our PrezDenise.
Queen Monica (yep, we were told we were to refer to all of "them" by their titles, Queen Monica and her court of Lords and Ladies, or dire consequences would ensue….more on that later) took the podium, and greeted all of us. She introduced her court:
Ladies—Monica, Tiffany, Kathleen, Minji, Tiffany, Nina, Amy, Maggie, Mimi
Lords—Alex, Joe, Chino, Cary, Rocky, Jason, Peter, James, Vincent, Kenneth, Vijay, Matthew, Chena.
Queen Monica then formally stated "the actions" that would lead directly to fines (fines that were
being constantly and conscientiously recorded by the CircleK'er at each table). ; The rules:
a. Call all CircleK'ers by the title of Lord or Lady
b. Don't walk forwards
c. No elbows on the table
d. No yelling
e. Not wearing Kiwanis badge
f. No name calling
g. Forget a name
h. No standing when talking
We had been warned. The pencils were ready to note infractions.
There were two Secret Greeters. In fear, sales of insurance were astronomical! Lord Peter and Lord Vincent chortled as they stood and pointed to many culprits.
Lord Vijay was introduced as the Auctioneer Extraordinaire, and he "lived up to his reputation." What followed was the liveliest, the funniest, the c raziest meeting this scribe has ever attended.
While Lords and Ladies wandered around showing off the auction items, Lord Vijay auctioned off item after item. You barely had to lift a finger (and no one dared pick up a cup of coffee) and it was noted as a bid. Bidding was spirited.
Auction items (and, if the scribe could hear, the purchaser) were:
--Many packets of oatmeal raison cookies
--Jars filled with stars (VC). VC noted that she will count the stars, sell raffle tickets next week, and the winner will get the stars. The other winner, CircleK, will get the raffle money.
--Two boxes of scrumptious, large strawberries dipped in chocolate (Tammy)
--Random décor items (Roberta)
--More cookies
--Photo frame with hand drawn dragon, to be autographed (Phuoc)
--Oatmeal raison cookies (Jack)
--Banana bread make with love and sweat (a correction was made that the sweat was not added to the cookies) (JohnP)
--"Welcome" shelf (Jeff)
--Mystery package (VC). Among the myriad of contents, a hula skirt and coconuts; both modeled by the purchaser (you had to be there….)
--Handmade Kiwanis pillow (Phuoc)
--Valentine Cake (Jack)
--A Joe concert (Den ise)
--Another Joe concert (Sandy)
--Picture of VC and BC puzzle (VC)
--Picture of Roberta and Frank puzzle (Tammy)
--Strawberry jello in wine glasses (Roberta)
--Champagne jello in champagne glasses (VC)
--Ballroom dance lessons (VC)
--Heart shape cake with special frosting (Phuoc)
--Coffee mugs, coffee, etc (Roberta)
--Apple pie (VC)
--Charlie Brown plant
--Cupcakes (Jeff)
--Handcrafted wine table (Roberta)
--Obama drawing
Apologizes if I missed an auction item or your purchase of one—all was so fast, so furious, so chaotic.
Our wallets were empty. Congratulations to CircleK for the wonderful and thoughtful and special auction items. And what a clever idea to wander around and show off the items before they were auctioned off. A thank you to all the Kiwanians for your contribution to the Circle K Club.
But that did not conclude the meeting. Under a chair at each table was an envelope. Now, one
would expect a present, a treat, right? So folks fought over those envelopes. "Winners" were VC,
Phuoc and Sandy. But wait—each was to come forward and do the dance noted on the card in the envelope. VC did the chicken (well, acted like a chicken), Phuoc did a robot (the scribe thinks) and the winner by far, Sandy, did disco.
But we still had money? and time. Happy and sad dollars were collected.
--JohnP that this event is just once a year
--Phuoc for the inauguration, CAL losing to the S university, and for winning a poker tournament in Reno
--Jack for "you guys are great!
--Ed for the fun luncheon with "the kids"
--Evie for an Obama celebration on the streets of Berkeley
--Jeff for Yosemite, a breakfast and a story that ended with "Go Bears"
0AVijay turned the podium back to the Prez. Applause was loud and long for the terrific job he did. Vijay you were awesome.
Joe led us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thank you again, Circle K'ers, for a great and fun meeting.
(tjp)
