Sandra Dodd

Here's Marty in a chainmail coif, in preparation for tonight's
regional/state (not sure which) bagging competition for the grocery
chain Marty works for. He's store champion. Holly, Keith and I are
going with him. He'll pull that stuff off and have his store uniform
underneath when it's his turn.

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elizabeth roberts

Cool! Let us know how it goes! That sounds like alot of fun. I bagged groceries for quite awhile as a teen.

Beth

Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
Here's Marty in a chainmail coif, in preparation for tonight's
regional/state (not sure which) bagging competition for the grocery
chain Marty works for. He's store champion. Holly, Keith and I are
going with him. He'll pull that stuff off and have his store uniform
underneath when it's his turn.

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com






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Sandra Dodd

-=-Cool! Let us know how it goes! That sounds like alot of fun. I
bagged groceries for quite awhile as a teen.-=-

Third place.

They went in pairs and he was last of an odd number so he got to pick
who he bagged against as the bye. He chose the regional manager, who
beat him on time, but just by throwing the stuff in the bags however
(because he wasn't really in the contest) which gave the judge a good
opportunity for a dramatic double-take of fear when she looked in.
But Marty fumbled the bar of soap, and then when he got it in the
little bag, he dropped that. So there went several seconds.

I'm glad we went, and we weren't at all the only people in costume!
There were lots and lots. The theme was "Knights in Shining Armor,"
and the people from Marty's store had shields that said Marty and
813, and there were photos of Marty in armor (two real and one
photoshop).

The bad thing was it was run as a crazed pep rally with tons of
people screaming, and one store had brought a drum (snare drum and
drummer), and some had air horns, and lots of people were whistling
and screaming, and they dragged the whole thing out to nearly two
hours. It was pretty painful, but most of the people there were
really happy. It reminded me of a high school pep rally in a small
gym, in all the worst ways, but I didn't even have bleachers to sit
on. It was Holly's first experience with that level of human frenzy.

I feel sorry for the people who had come in tonight just to get some
groceries and happened in on all that. It's a big store, but there
were four lanes open and four occupied by this wild party with
placards and banners and plastic swords and kids dressed as fairy
princesses and pirates and dragons and adults dressed as knights and
monks and roman soldiers and cousins of Orcs and there was a DJ
playing unexpected things for each paired race�radically different
stuff. One was a good rap song that would've been helpful to get a
rhythm going. One was the theme from American Bandstand (not as
good). Marty
was working to something bizarre, some square dance song but I don't
remember which. Sometimes we couldn't even tell what the music was
for all the screaming.

When Marty got home he told us stories of what we had missed or
couldn't know, and he was still totally adrenalated, so he walked up
to the store to tell those who were working tonight how the contest
went, and that let him walk off and discharge some of his energy so
he could fall asleep and get up at 5:30 to go to work.

He got a medallion that says Honorable Mention, and a $5 gift card
(for having answered a trivia question). There were trophies for 2nd
and 1st.

Several of the people from his store thanked us for being supportive
of the whole crazy thing.

When they introduced him they didn't say he was homeschooled. That's
okay. All I heard of the introduction, over the noise, was that he
was planning to become a police officer someday. I didn't know that
was still the current plan. Keith doesn't love that plan. I asked
him later what else he said. He said he couldn't even hear so well
himself, but they said he'd been working there since December and
that he was a really nice guy.

Sandra

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elizabeth roberts

Well that sounds like a pretty neat way to spend an evening! Congrats on the third place Marty!

Beth


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>>I feel sorry for the people who had come in tonight just to get some
groceries and happened in on all that. It's a big store, but there
were four lanes open and four occupied by this wild party with
placards and banners and plastic swords and kids dressed as fairy
princesses and pirates and dragons and adults dressed as knights and
monks and roman soldiers and cousins of Orcs and there was a DJ
playing unexpected things for each paired race—radically different
stuff. One was a good rap song that would've been helpful to get a
rhythm going. One was the theme from American Bandstand (not as
good). Marty
was working to something bizarre, some square dance song but I don't
remember which. Sometimes we couldn't even tell what the music was
for all the screaming.<<

I am still laughing out loud at this description Sandra! Thank you for
sharing it. Tell Marty congratulations. I met him at Legoland last
March...actually had lunch with him and Mercedes' gang, and he was SUCH a
delight! I can just see him bagging away!

Jacki