CyncySpyder
Teddys favorite human
You're a good man Charlie Brown .....CONCLUSION
She locked eyes with me and stated rather sternly, "No Dogs Allowed! Well ...... unless you hold him the entire time and don't set him down or let him run around."
Never being there before, I had no clue what to expect upon walking in, but believe me, that greating wasn't at all what I had expected :shocked: But I just politely smiled and said "No problem, I'll hold him & not let him down, I promise." and she then smiled back at me & said "OK then, you can bring him in." The lady that I had helped continued walking on into the Great Hall, and Teddy and I just walked around the lobby for a few minutes looking at the mock 'guest rooms' that they had set up so ppl could easily see everything that would be available since most the stuff available were the furnishings from these guest rooms. First glance, you could tell they had not updated the rooms in many many years and I'm guessing, but I'd say most of the furnishings looked to be straight out of the 80s or early 90s, but very aged in apperance, tho still very useable ....... to some
After a few minutes of looking, I didn't notice what I had hoped to find, and that was any type of mini-bar that they might have had in the rooms. So a little pensively, I turned my attention back to the two ladies in the judges chairs and inquired if they had any and was kindly told no, that they didn't actually have mini-bars in the rooms, just small refrigerators and all of them were already sold. Hmmmmmm..... ok, well that kills most of my interest for coming there, but figured we'd still walk around just to see what there was to see, so we continued into the Great Hall.
And WoW, that was a sight to see. I wish I would have thought to take pics, but sadly, I didn't think about it at the time. But as soon as we walked thru the opening to the Great Hall, to the right of us was pile after pile of electronics ........ 4 to 6 feet in height ........ all piled one atop the other ........ old electronics .......... like corded telephones .......... ancient looking alarm clocks ........... blow dryers ............. irons ........... at least 2 to 3 hundred of each in the piles ......... but who would really want this stuff :dontknow: Who knows, but it had to go ........
Then their was row after row of chairs, small tables, night stands, desks, dressers, and any and all of the dishes, china and cutlery that the placed used for hosting conventions and dinners. Hundreds and hundreds of them, every where you looked. Then we spotted row after row of the mini-fridges the lady had told me about and sure enough, every single one of them had a red sold sticker on them, like the lady said, they were all already sold. Guess some company came in and bought the entire lot, maybe for another hotel, who knows, but they were $75 each & who knows how old they were and you can get new ones for around a hundred bucks, so I didn't think that was really all that great of a price.... but to each their own ...
We continued thru the aisles and made our way to the side rooms, one of which had nothing but 19 inch color tv's, the heavy box top that most of us have long done away with, but they still had hundreds. And also computers, which kind of shocked me, so I investigated a little closer and found 3 of them were Win98, 1 Win2000 & 1 was WinCE...... so I just chuckled as we walked back out of the room...... wow, like stepping back in time...... :shocked:
Down the hall a little further and one room was nothing but queen sized box springs, the next room was nothing but queen sized mattresses and the next was all the headboards....... just room after room of nothing but bedding.
Back out into the Great Room once again, and I see the lady with the cast on her arm that we had helped when we were first entering & I could once again see her struggling. She was tugging on one of the mini-fridges with her only good arm, and trying to drag it to the front doors, but she could hardly move it since we were on carpet. Feeling bad to watch her struggle, I once again offered her my assistance. I asked if she had a cart or knew if the place had one that she could use, and she said she didn't have one & wasn't aware if they did or not. I was pretty sure that they would have to have carts on hand, seeing as it was a liquidtion sale, they'd have to have some things to help customers get their newly bought items out of there & into their cars, so I told the injured lady we should walk back up to the 'Judge' ladies & ask them, so we did.
I asked the same lady that I had spoken with before, if she had any carts or dolly's available that I could use to move one of the mini-fridges & she promptly reminded me that they were all sold out of them :lecturef_smilie: I then pointed out to her, that it wasn't for me, but it was for the injured lady in the cast that had already bought one, but she needed help in getting it out of the building
She was a little shocked at my response, almost as if I were lying to her and trying to steal one or something, and I wasn't really sure why she reacted that way, but she finally said that if we went all the way to the back loading dock they would be able to loan us a dolly to use. I thanked her and smiled and we set in search of the loading dock.
Once we made it back to the loading dock, I saw a couple of the liquidators helping to load a large moving truck full of stuff from the hotel. I kindly asked one of the older gentleman that seemed to be supervising the younger guys if he had a dolly that we could use & he promptly asked me why. I explained that the lady in the cast needed help in moving the mini-fridge she had bought & that I thought a dolly would be a great help for us to move the fridge from the Great Room to the ladies car. The man pulled out a dolly, but then stated that anything purchased had to leave thru the loading dock, and the lady told him she parked out front and didn't want to wait for the large truck to get finished loading and moved out of the way & that she'd be easily able to get it out the front to her car. He gruffly stated that wasn't allowed, and it HAD to go out thru the loading dock. I just nodded my head and politely took the dolly with my one hand, while he just kind of looked lost at Teddy in my other, not sure what to make of what he was seeing.... :shocked:
Once we made our way back to the ladies mini-fridge, she asked if I wanted her to hold Teddy while I loaded the fridge on the dolly, and while that would have helped, I knew Teddy would have none of it & would immediately turn into a worm and want down from the lady. So, remembering I promised the 'judge' lady that I wouldn't set Teddy down or let him run around, I then set him atop another of the adjacent mini-fridges and asked him to sit & wait, which he did without question. I think I saw the 'judge' lady look around the corner from her perch to make sure that I hadn't allowed Teddy to run amock, which I hadn't.
When I began moving the mini-fridge I heard an odd panging sound as I mounted it up onto the dolly & asked the lady if she had plugged it in to make sure that it worked & the lady looked at me with a perplexed expression upon her face and said, "You know, I never even thought of that." :shocked: Really? At a liquidation sale? After being sold 'AS IS' & NO RETURNS & you didn't think to at least plug it in for a few minutes to see if it started cooling? :dontknow: I didn't say a word tho & just smiled, gathered Teddy back in one arm and the lady & I pushed the mini-fridge back up to the 'Judge' ladies & I asked "Everything is being sold AS IS, no returns, right? To which the same 'judge' lady we had conversed with the entire time replied, "Yes, that's right." So I then asked if we could plug in the mini-fridge just to make sure it worked. She once again looked at me with a bit of a disbelief look upon her face and then exclaimed, "Is this your mother or something?" to which I was a little surprised at her question and just replied "Nope, just a nice lady I just met her when entering that looked like she needed a little help, why do you ask?" She just looked at me still with that disbelief look upon her face and said, "No reason, you should be able to find an open electrical outlet down that hallway on the side that you can use." and she pointed down the side hallway, so we proceeded to roll the mini-fridge down the hallway to find an open outlet.
Once we found an outlet, I plugged the unit in & we waited for a few minutes to see if we could feel it starting to cool. While we waited, I did a little more looking & found the build tag on the compressor around back of the unit & let the lady know that it was built in 2002, so it was most likely 8-11 years old, unless it just sat in a wharehouse for a long time before being put in service. She seemed a little shocked, and said that when she inquired how old the units were she was told that they were relatively new, only about 6-8 months old :lecturef_smilie: which I told her was hard to believe :lecturef_smilie: & showed her the date on the tag.
After about 10 minutes you could hear & feel that the unit was working & the inside was starting to chill, so that satisfied the lady enough to continue with the purchase, not that she had much choice seeing as she had already paid for it before we had even gotten there, & there were NO RETURNS. Anyways, we once again proceeded to the front & I explained to the same 'Judge' lady that the injured ladies car was right out front & asked if it was ok if we just took the mini-fridge out the front doors so I could load it in her car for her, and the lady still had that bewildered look upon her face and said "Sure, why not, can't see it hurting anything." so I thanked her and the lady with her arm in the cast held the doors open for Teddy & I as we pushed the dolly thru the double set of front doors.
Once we started thru the first set of doors the 'Judge' Lady called out to me and said ............. "Your a Good Man Charlie Brown, a good man."
I guess that was why she was looking rather perplexed at me, cause here I was a stranger helping a lady in need and I guess it wasn't something she had seen all that often. Personally, I think the world would be a better place if those that could ....................... would :thumbup:
She locked eyes with me and stated rather sternly, "No Dogs Allowed! Well ...... unless you hold him the entire time and don't set him down or let him run around."
Never being there before, I had no clue what to expect upon walking in, but believe me, that greating wasn't at all what I had expected :shocked: But I just politely smiled and said "No problem, I'll hold him & not let him down, I promise." and she then smiled back at me & said "OK then, you can bring him in." The lady that I had helped continued walking on into the Great Hall, and Teddy and I just walked around the lobby for a few minutes looking at the mock 'guest rooms' that they had set up so ppl could easily see everything that would be available since most the stuff available were the furnishings from these guest rooms. First glance, you could tell they had not updated the rooms in many many years and I'm guessing, but I'd say most of the furnishings looked to be straight out of the 80s or early 90s, but very aged in apperance, tho still very useable ....... to some
After a few minutes of looking, I didn't notice what I had hoped to find, and that was any type of mini-bar that they might have had in the rooms. So a little pensively, I turned my attention back to the two ladies in the judges chairs and inquired if they had any and was kindly told no, that they didn't actually have mini-bars in the rooms, just small refrigerators and all of them were already sold. Hmmmmmm..... ok, well that kills most of my interest for coming there, but figured we'd still walk around just to see what there was to see, so we continued into the Great Hall.
And WoW, that was a sight to see. I wish I would have thought to take pics, but sadly, I didn't think about it at the time. But as soon as we walked thru the opening to the Great Hall, to the right of us was pile after pile of electronics ........ 4 to 6 feet in height ........ all piled one atop the other ........ old electronics .......... like corded telephones .......... ancient looking alarm clocks ........... blow dryers ............. irons ........... at least 2 to 3 hundred of each in the piles ......... but who would really want this stuff :dontknow: Who knows, but it had to go ........
Then their was row after row of chairs, small tables, night stands, desks, dressers, and any and all of the dishes, china and cutlery that the placed used for hosting conventions and dinners. Hundreds and hundreds of them, every where you looked. Then we spotted row after row of the mini-fridges the lady had told me about and sure enough, every single one of them had a red sold sticker on them, like the lady said, they were all already sold. Guess some company came in and bought the entire lot, maybe for another hotel, who knows, but they were $75 each & who knows how old they were and you can get new ones for around a hundred bucks, so I didn't think that was really all that great of a price.... but to each their own ...
We continued thru the aisles and made our way to the side rooms, one of which had nothing but 19 inch color tv's, the heavy box top that most of us have long done away with, but they still had hundreds. And also computers, which kind of shocked me, so I investigated a little closer and found 3 of them were Win98, 1 Win2000 & 1 was WinCE...... so I just chuckled as we walked back out of the room...... wow, like stepping back in time...... :shocked:
Down the hall a little further and one room was nothing but queen sized box springs, the next room was nothing but queen sized mattresses and the next was all the headboards....... just room after room of nothing but bedding.
Back out into the Great Room once again, and I see the lady with the cast on her arm that we had helped when we were first entering & I could once again see her struggling. She was tugging on one of the mini-fridges with her only good arm, and trying to drag it to the front doors, but she could hardly move it since we were on carpet. Feeling bad to watch her struggle, I once again offered her my assistance. I asked if she had a cart or knew if the place had one that she could use, and she said she didn't have one & wasn't aware if they did or not. I was pretty sure that they would have to have carts on hand, seeing as it was a liquidtion sale, they'd have to have some things to help customers get their newly bought items out of there & into their cars, so I told the injured lady we should walk back up to the 'Judge' ladies & ask them, so we did.
I asked the same lady that I had spoken with before, if she had any carts or dolly's available that I could use to move one of the mini-fridges & she promptly reminded me that they were all sold out of them :lecturef_smilie: I then pointed out to her, that it wasn't for me, but it was for the injured lady in the cast that had already bought one, but she needed help in getting it out of the building
She was a little shocked at my response, almost as if I were lying to her and trying to steal one or something, and I wasn't really sure why she reacted that way, but she finally said that if we went all the way to the back loading dock they would be able to loan us a dolly to use. I thanked her and smiled and we set in search of the loading dock.Once we made it back to the loading dock, I saw a couple of the liquidators helping to load a large moving truck full of stuff from the hotel. I kindly asked one of the older gentleman that seemed to be supervising the younger guys if he had a dolly that we could use & he promptly asked me why. I explained that the lady in the cast needed help in moving the mini-fridge she had bought & that I thought a dolly would be a great help for us to move the fridge from the Great Room to the ladies car. The man pulled out a dolly, but then stated that anything purchased had to leave thru the loading dock, and the lady told him she parked out front and didn't want to wait for the large truck to get finished loading and moved out of the way & that she'd be easily able to get it out the front to her car. He gruffly stated that wasn't allowed, and it HAD to go out thru the loading dock. I just nodded my head and politely took the dolly with my one hand, while he just kind of looked lost at Teddy in my other, not sure what to make of what he was seeing.... :shocked:
Once we made our way back to the ladies mini-fridge, she asked if I wanted her to hold Teddy while I loaded the fridge on the dolly, and while that would have helped, I knew Teddy would have none of it & would immediately turn into a worm and want down from the lady. So, remembering I promised the 'judge' lady that I wouldn't set Teddy down or let him run around, I then set him atop another of the adjacent mini-fridges and asked him to sit & wait, which he did without question. I think I saw the 'judge' lady look around the corner from her perch to make sure that I hadn't allowed Teddy to run amock, which I hadn't.
When I began moving the mini-fridge I heard an odd panging sound as I mounted it up onto the dolly & asked the lady if she had plugged it in to make sure that it worked & the lady looked at me with a perplexed expression upon her face and said, "You know, I never even thought of that." :shocked: Really? At a liquidation sale? After being sold 'AS IS' & NO RETURNS & you didn't think to at least plug it in for a few minutes to see if it started cooling? :dontknow: I didn't say a word tho & just smiled, gathered Teddy back in one arm and the lady & I pushed the mini-fridge back up to the 'Judge' ladies & I asked "Everything is being sold AS IS, no returns, right? To which the same 'judge' lady we had conversed with the entire time replied, "Yes, that's right." So I then asked if we could plug in the mini-fridge just to make sure it worked. She once again looked at me with a bit of a disbelief look upon her face and then exclaimed, "Is this your mother or something?" to which I was a little surprised at her question and just replied "Nope, just a nice lady I just met her when entering that looked like she needed a little help, why do you ask?" She just looked at me still with that disbelief look upon her face and said, "No reason, you should be able to find an open electrical outlet down that hallway on the side that you can use." and she pointed down the side hallway, so we proceeded to roll the mini-fridge down the hallway to find an open outlet.
Once we found an outlet, I plugged the unit in & we waited for a few minutes to see if we could feel it starting to cool. While we waited, I did a little more looking & found the build tag on the compressor around back of the unit & let the lady know that it was built in 2002, so it was most likely 8-11 years old, unless it just sat in a wharehouse for a long time before being put in service. She seemed a little shocked, and said that when she inquired how old the units were she was told that they were relatively new, only about 6-8 months old :lecturef_smilie: which I told her was hard to believe :lecturef_smilie: & showed her the date on the tag.
After about 10 minutes you could hear & feel that the unit was working & the inside was starting to chill, so that satisfied the lady enough to continue with the purchase, not that she had much choice seeing as she had already paid for it before we had even gotten there, & there were NO RETURNS. Anyways, we once again proceeded to the front & I explained to the same 'Judge' lady that the injured ladies car was right out front & asked if it was ok if we just took the mini-fridge out the front doors so I could load it in her car for her, and the lady still had that bewildered look upon her face and said "Sure, why not, can't see it hurting anything." so I thanked her and the lady with her arm in the cast held the doors open for Teddy & I as we pushed the dolly thru the double set of front doors.
Once we started thru the first set of doors the 'Judge' Lady called out to me and said ............. "Your a Good Man Charlie Brown, a good man."
I guess that was why she was looking rather perplexed at me, cause here I was a stranger helping a lady in need and I guess it wasn't something she had seen all that often. Personally, I think the world would be a better place if those that could ....................... would :thumbup:
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ray: & knowing Teds Sled will be ready whenever called upon, no matter how cold the temps are :thumbup: 
I realize for many, it was still too chilly to ryde, but high 40's & low 50's with it being dry, is pretty decent ryding weather for the end of November....... their loss 
banghead
. We definately need to be on guard at all times.
hyea:While it sounds sensible in most respects, neither one of us can really stand it much :cus: He really detests having to be groomed each & every night and I can tell he really missis having his shorter coat, as its just so much easier for him to maintane. Not to mention, his 'Doggles' have two elastic bands to hold them on. One goes around the back of his head and the other goes under his chin & with his short coat theirs no fuss. But with his longer coat, as I'm sure many women out there are familar with, its very easy for his long hair to get pinched or tangled in the elastic bands, and that litterally is a pain :cus:
