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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | June 2016 | 25 Karaoke & Dance Party Karaoke will be Sun., June 12, 2 pm to 6 pm. After explaining how the singers rotation works, in past issues of the Herald, I feel I must let you know about a slight glitch in this system. I don't remember if it was this past karaoke or the one before that, but as singers turned in their song slips, Russ handed me two slips and said "here's mine and Karen's."So I put them at the back of the tray, and kept collecting song slips, which kept going to the back of the tray. As I began calling singers up, Russ came up and sang, and then I called Karen and she came up and sang, then Al and Orville and so on until the end of the first round. So we started the second round and when it got to Russ he sang, then I called Al and when he finished Russ came back up and said, "what happened to Kare, she's supposed to follow me!" I needed a plausible answer, something believable, something intelligent, I said, "I don't know." It's a great answer, it always works. As in, "honey, why did you leave the car on empty?" Answer, "I don't know" or, "honey why don't you put the toilet seat down when you're finished?" Answer, "I don't know!" The only response that the questioner can think of is, "well, I don't know either." The "I don't know" answer gets you completely off the hook; you have made them answer their own question. So while Russ was standing there trying to figure out what I had just said, I looked on my table top for the Karen's slip — no slip. Then I looked at the back of the tray, thinking it must be stuck to Russ's — it wasn't. So I looked through every slip in the tray — nothing. I looked on the floor, I even took off my shoes, thinking I might have stepped on a wad of gum and her slip was stuck to the sole of my shoe — no slip. How can this be… I'm so perfect… you can ask my wife, she'll tell you… well, maybe you better not ask my wife, but you can ask my sisters, they've always… uuhhmm… well. Maybe you shouldn't ask them either, you'll just have to take my word for it, or you can come to karaoke and see for yourself… See you there, Bill. By the way, don't ask Karen or Russ either.

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