Home Show

Every now and then Babs, Julie and I go to the “Somerset Auctions” where a wide variety of things are well … auctioned off. We sometimes buy a few things, but to be honest we go there to make fun of the barkers and the crap they are trying to sell. One year we were in tears laughing so hard. another year I took copious notes of their lies, we laughed about it, then I promptly left the notebook there. Yet they continute to invite us back year after year.

This year the auction was held inside the Santa Rosa Home show, they sent me free adminssion, who can miss that? Hideki, Julies squeeze went too, but he is a boy and found our amusements strange. I don’t blame him. we are strange, its only natural our amusements would be as well.

Anyway, this year wasn’t as funny as before but a few things made us giggle. A hideous mirror was on the block, rectangluar shapped with a large and well ugly frame. When the bids were not getting high enough, the barker stops the bidding and says, “This mirror could be on FIRE and you would still be getting a good deal.” On fire.

Of Hand Knotted Silk Carpet “Its 100& silk!” Few seconds later “Its Mostly silk” ….. Few more seconds , “Some silk”. Well you get the idea. Its funny because every time he says this we burst out laughing and yet he keeps going on. We are the only ones laughing, yet there are people there I recognize from years before. They have seen this schick, yet they watch in facsination.

Oh the Home Show was fun too. Babs and I demoed the temperpedic bed, the woman wrapped us in blankets, set the massage features on the bed and elevatored our feet. It was heaven, who cared that all those people walking by could see us? Even if one was the presdient of the University?