Thanks for Saving My Bacon.

[remistress]

So, this might get a little cheesy. I realize F.net is not the best venue to do this, but I'm not sure when in the season I will see everyone who helped me out this last weekend. I may have some chance of getting my thanks out to at least some of you.

What happened: On the way home from PCCs, literally on my way to the 210, I and three other girls got in a pretty bad fender bender. So, there I am in Pasedena over 300 miles from home, car leaking coolant (bad for driving the Grapevine), and everyone needing to be home on Monday. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Below will be my personal thanks to several of those fencers who came to our aide.

Thanks to both Devin Donnelly and Gavin Towey for calling everyone they knew who was still around who might potentially still have room to get us back north. Thanks to George Platt and those from Swordplay who made room for my friends and helped cart them back north. Thanks to Mikol Ryan and those fencers from GGFC who were going to turn around because they had one spot left for me. Thanks to James Fiatarone for getting me that glass of wine I sorely needed. Thanks to Kelly Lundgren-Koehler (and Jeff of course, too) for letting me crash at her place on such short notice. Thanks to Sean Horan and Zoran Djurisic for entertaining me with great stories and getting me up north in one piece. Thanks to anyone I have forgotten or did not know about.

I really appreciate all of your help...and owe pretty much all of you drinks.

(And just in case I should be called "cagey")
Emily DeOrnellas

[Pescados666]

hmmm... Overheated car, California, someone needing a ride, and a "girl". Remind anyone else of a classic movie?

[ivlobane]

hmmm... Overheated car, California, someone needing a ride, and a "girl". Remind anyone else of a classic movie?

w00t! Don't you love fencers?!!

[wahrman]

I'm glad everything worked out. I'm sorry we couldn't actually help.

[piste off]

hmmm... Overheated car, California, someone needing a ride, and a "girl". Remind anyone else of a classic movie?

Well, considering she had to share the ride with Sean, I'm thinking some kinda weird horror movie... But then again, it could have been just plain weird.

The conversation probably went something like this:

Horan: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Remistress: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.
Horan: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Remistress: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
Horan: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Remistress: I would go for the 7.
Horan: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Remistress: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?
Horan: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
Remistress: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Horan convulses]
Horan: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Remistress: That - good point.
Horan: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
Remistress: Why?
Horan: 'Cause you're f***in' fired!

Just kidding... Good to see everyone helping a fencer in need.

Rick

[formerfencer]

I believe you already took care of the drink for me... we killed the bottle on Tuesday.

Glad all made it home safely and happy to help!

[RITFencing]

Rick, I'd protest, but that really does sound like me.

[Pescados666]

Well, considering she had to share the ride with Sean, I'm thinking some kinda weird horror movie... But then again, it could have been just plain weird.

The conversation probably went something like this:

Horan: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Remistress: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.
Horan: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Remistress: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
Horan: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Remistress: I would go for the 7.
Horan: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Remistress: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?
Horan: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
Remistress: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Horan convulses]
Horan: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Remistress: That - good point.
Horan: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
Remistress: Why?
Horan: 'Cause you're f***in' fired!

Just kidding... Good to see everyone helping a fencer in need.

Rick

umm... No, not quite. I was thinking more of Up in Smoke.

[Meteoric Iron]

Several of those guys are refs, aren't they? Says a lot...

[telkanuru]

Several of those guys are refs, aren't they? Says a lot...

That they're used to doing something with minimum financial rewards and no personal benefit?

[piste off]

Several of those guys are refs, aren't they? Says a lot...

That fencers would be left standing in the middle of nowhere without them and people like them.

Refs Rock!!!

Rick