2006 All Chapter Rolling Thunder Picnic
What I learned at the 2006 Nam Knights Rolling Thunder Picnic
By
Steve "Tools" Krochmalick

Bomber has new hand signals…or he is fending off a swarm of bees.

50 pounds of burning charcoals are hot

The open side if the charcoal pit is even hotter

Levi 501 button fly jeans are not a good choice to wear around a HOT charcoal pit….you’d think by the time you walked to the rest room the buttons would be cool

Screaming in the men’s room creates an echo

Plastic red/yellow/green key chain beads do melt

Plastic red/yellow/green key chain beads cool very quick and makes an excellent adhesive on Levi’s

Sun screen is for wimps….and it burns your eyes when you sweat.

Sun screen does make for an excellent lubricant… and plastic sun glasses melt very quickly when they slide off your nose into a pan of boiling hot dogs.

You can’t see the flame from a sterno can… once you learn that, its fun to watch other people learn it

You can burn you hand on both sides at the same time with little difficulty….once from the sterno flame and again from the chafing dish when you try to jerk your hand out

Turning a sterno can on its side to expedite lighting causes them to leak…thanks for the brilliant idea Harry

Sterno fluid does not defy gravity…and it feels EXACTLY like sweat as it rolls down your hand and wrist and forms droplets on your elbow…burning hair stinks….but it’s a smell you get used to

Drinks should not be on any thing with wheels

Wolfie is a good carpenter.

Wolfie sucks at sewing…his colors are on the wrong side…but somehow that’s Stone Colds fault.

YAWGNORW carries spare plugs.

Tigger carries a spare dog

Wolfie carries spare fuses.

Rocky carries a spare cell phone

Nobody carries a spare fuel line.

The person who answered the door at the park police horse stables frightened me…thankfully Rocky was armed

Tank and Wolfie ride two up next year…it’s easier to keep track of and fix one broken bike rather than two

Tank sweats a lot….and if you’re hot and thirsty enough you CAN suck the remaining 2 inch chunk of ice through the &Mac184; hole of the water bottle….impressive

Baggers can carry a lot of crap…none of it is the owners

When you look for the one thing you DID pack in the bagger you can’t find it…until you get home.

Sweating feels exactly like sterno fluid running down your arm…..trying to explain to a stranger sun screen is an excellent lubricant and you were squinting because you had previously lost your glasses in the hot dogs as the reason why you panicked and doused said stranger lighting his $30 cigar with your last bottle of water….. is useless.

Asking the same stranger for his bottle of water now that he has been cooled off by your water is dumb.

Yelling at the ice cream vendor to help the pregnant lady first is even dumber…especially when the pregnant lady is a guy, and the vendor “no speaka da English”

Goofing off at work and typing about things you learned over the weekend and getting busted by your boss is almost as dumb.