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by silvercamaro » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:16 am
Update:
I just got home from the Gridiron trio's first official performance. To my astonishment (and probably yours, if you watched the tv clip,) somebody called yesterday and booked us for a party tonight. They wanted us at 9 p.m., so the guests could get a little tipsy before we got there. Good planning. Anyway, we showed up, sang four songs, did a little unplanned back-and-forth with the people there, and worked the crowd on the way out. For that, a dear woman paid $150 (more than the minimum fee) to see the look on the face of the guy who owned the house when a stranger walked through the door and said in his best television voice , "Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States."
When I agreed to take part in this whimsical effort at raising money for the show and scholarship fund, I figured it would be a lark, but I honestly could not conceive that anybody actually would pay money for us to come to an event. For next week, we already are booked for a newspaper and webcast interview-performance, as well as for a corporate employee lunch -- and the heavy season for holiday parties hasn't even gotten here yet.
Amazing. But this is something that happened that gave me great secret pride. On the way out of the party site, an enormous house hidden beyond a narrow gravel road that turned into a half-mile of smooth, paved driveway behind thick trees, two crazy little dogs were running around. They clearly were the pets of the people who own the house, but I was worried that they might run into the road when we drove away. I turned to the more dominant pup and said sternly, "You stay!" One of the other people in our little group said, "Good luck with that. You know he's going to follow us to the car." Only when we reached our vehicle did I look back. Both dogs were glued to the pavement in the exact place where they were when I said the magic words.
Cesar Millan would have approved.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.