i was driving down highway 1 when i noticed a crowd had gathered at the lake, and i read the sign and turned the car around and parked,...and there was the sardine queen, dressed in a sleeveless blue and white cotton dress. she was dancing with the sardine king to 50's music, and people were sitting around wrapped in blankets and sweaters at picnic tables in the cold, eating sardines and moonpies, and one man was selling sorghum while another sold sardine hats and t-shirts, and there was a line for lunch, and carl said - what are you doing here? and i told him...i've never seen a sardine festival before, i wanted to see what it was like.
sounds like an off-the-wall, drug-induced dream or hallucination, doesn't it? that actually happened this cold, damp day. for years, captain ron had been telling me about the sardine festival, and had once actually plotted a day off in order to attend, so i was expecting a big shindig with posters of charlie the tuna with a great big red circle and line through it to be plastered all over the place and not sure what else i expected.
but it was fun - everybody was dancing, eating, talking...and carl looked at me and said...better get in line for lunch! and i repeated i just wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
he shrugged and said, not much to it. just a bunch of crazy people sitting around, eating sardines!
man. LOL!
3 comments:
Just a bunch of crazy people sitting around eating sardines could be fun except I would prefer tuna. Might like a sardine t-shirt too since I don't already have a zillion of them from everywhere I go. Paula
Yuck to sardines, but yes to people watching...sounded like fun. Sandi
Sounds like a fun day. lol I actually really like sardines. I mean REALLY like sardines. I would have had to have stopped, too, if I'd seen the sign.
Lori
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