Leaving a Legacy!

So, I told you earlier that I volunteered for the Star94 American Idol auditions at the World of Coke on Friday. Well, it was a lot of fun, besides the fact that I cost the Coca-Cola company a lot of money...oops. Heres how it happened...

We were working for the event team that day, so everything was practically brand new to us. The first task they us (Scottie and me) was to put the Coca-Cola banners up. This required three things: the banner, a stake, and a rubber mallet. Two of those things no one should ever entrust me to handle. Anyway, we were told to stake the banners at the edge of the lawn on either side of the front entrance path. So, we went over there and started pounding in the first stake. Everything was going well, we put the first banner up and it was slanted. Therefore, we pulled the stake out and re-staked it. Then it was straight up, it looked great! I was so proud of myself! Then cam the second stake, I measured it precisely to line up perfectly with the other banner on the other side.

So, I started pounding in the stake. This one was a little harder to get in. Maybe it was a rock, or some cement. So I hit it even harder, and success! I got it in! Little did I know, there was a little "sizzling" sound coming from the stake. I kept hitting it in until the sizzling became audible. I asked Scottie what it was, he didn't know. I shrugged it off and gave it one more good hit to really get it in there. Then it came, the water from ground. I wasn't really sure what to do, so I pulled out the stake and there we had Coca-Cola's own Old Faithful. A geyser of water came shooting up, at least 2 or 3 feet into the air.

Apparently, they had buried the sprinkler pipes right where I wanted to put the banner. The maintenance people came over, laughed it off, and turned off the water. But, little did they know that Coca-Cola had hired some specialist plumber in California to bury and install the pipes. So, they had to call in this "plumbing specialist" to come in a fix what I did. Later that day, the same maintenance people said that I had staked the other banner 3 inches from the other tube!

What did I tell you, me + stakes + rubber mallets = BIG MISTAKES!!! (no pun intended)
The mess I made, after they covered it with sand!