Eeyore's Pal
Trading pins since before there were rubber backs
- Joined
- Nov 14, 1999
- Messages
- 3,779
We're tired, we're broke, but we're still alive and trading!
After a day and a half of non-stop pintrading, I can safely say that <i>I am too <b>old</b> for this sport, and need to find something less physically demanding.</i>
Up at dawn....trading until past midnight....Lugging pinbooks weighing <i>hundreds</i> of pounds....with nothing but water for sustenance....and everywhere brightly colored pieces of metal that can blind your weary eyes in a flash.
This might explain some of the hallucinations I've been having.
I think I saw Ruthie complete a trade in <i>less than <b>30 minutes!</b></i>
Barbara was doing some weird West Coast version of the Happy Pin Dance because she found a Pooh pin she didn't already own.
Figgy kept trying to trade some dirt for pins.
I saw Ed in a red wig screech at a waiter in a girley voice....<i>OK, that was probably </b>real!</b> </i>
So I must need some new medication because I kept asking people to help the cause of the geographically-challenged pintraders, by trading Disney Store pins for auction pins!
But seriously --
Event Services has done a bang-up job adressing the issues of last year's disaster. Everything is together in the air-conditioned World Showplace, entry is limited to guests with passes, lines are few and moving quickly, seminars and entertainment in the center of the facility, auxiliary lighting is installed over the trading area, and lots of long tables and chairs for easy trading.
And our favorite Main Street reporter, Mr. Scoop Sanderson, is
covering the whole event!
Wish you were all here......
After a day and a half of non-stop pintrading, I can safely say that <i>I am too <b>old</b> for this sport, and need to find something less physically demanding.</i>
Up at dawn....trading until past midnight....Lugging pinbooks weighing <i>hundreds</i> of pounds....with nothing but water for sustenance....and everywhere brightly colored pieces of metal that can blind your weary eyes in a flash.
This might explain some of the hallucinations I've been having.
I think I saw Ruthie complete a trade in <i>less than <b>30 minutes!</b></i>
Barbara was doing some weird West Coast version of the Happy Pin Dance because she found a Pooh pin she didn't already own.
Figgy kept trying to trade some dirt for pins.
I saw Ed in a red wig screech at a waiter in a girley voice....<i>OK, that was probably </b>real!</b> </i>
So I must need some new medication because I kept asking people to help the cause of the geographically-challenged pintraders, by trading Disney Store pins for auction pins!
But seriously --
Event Services has done a bang-up job adressing the issues of last year's disaster. Everything is together in the air-conditioned World Showplace, entry is limited to guests with passes, lines are few and moving quickly, seminars and entertainment in the center of the facility, auxiliary lighting is installed over the trading area, and lots of long tables and chairs for easy trading.
And our favorite Main Street reporter, Mr. Scoop Sanderson, is
covering the whole event!
Wish you were all here......
