Freeloaders!

from JoeUser Forums

The Woody Guthrie Tribute here will be going on in just two weeks. And as the chairman for the event, I've been going back and forth with different people on just how things will be laid out this year.

Our biggest controversy this year is over hot dogs.

See, it's my position the hot dogs should be provided for free on the first night. When the issue of cost came up, I offered to donate them if it was a problem. Well, the board voted we'd do the hot dogs for free, and the board would pay.

Well, the controversy didn't end there. People around here form boards, but they don't like to go by board decisions. And so, we had the person who was going to prepare the hot dogs refusing to do so if we were just going to GIVE them away. And the woman who helped organize the center here doesn't like it much either.

It was in one of those conversations about that yesterday where it came to a head. She said, in a patrician tone "well, if we GIVE them away, we'll just attract FREELOADERS".

I came back quick with, "yeah, the kind of people Woody HATED, right?"

I find it ironic that we hold people up as icons, yet we have contempt for the kinds of people who live the lives we claim to admire. As Woody once astutely observed, "if Jesus was to preach like He preached in Galilee, they would lay Jesus Christ in His grave!"

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
She's right, Gid. You'll attract the wrong crowd. For instance, I'll show up practically anywhere for a free hot dog! Wouldn't want a seedy element like that moving in.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I want my free hotdog shipped, please, along with a free Woodie Guthrie CD that I will win in a free raffle (you will enter my name, right Gid?)
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I want my free hotdog shipped, please, along with a free Woodie Guthrie CD that I will win in a free raffle (you will enter my name, right Gid?)


sure. I'll send you a free Woody Guthrie CD and a hot dog...only $20 for shipping and handling...LOL!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Wouldn't want a seedy element like that moving in.


True.

It was probably her subtle way of trying to keep ME away...lol!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
If the idea is to share/spread your passion for something, doesn't it make sense to attract people who might not be familiar with it?

And c'mon, hot dogs are cheap and one of the easiest thing to prepare ever. It's not a burden. Particularly when you've offered to donate them and no one else has to spend a penny on them.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Particularly when you've offered to donate them and no one else has to spend a penny on them.


Exactly.

When I first offered to donate them, the rebuttal is "but you have several kids to feed". My reply "Yeah, and I'm sure they'll scarf down their share of them!"
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
So you'll have two types at your show, Gid, those that love the music, and those that came only for the hotdogs. I say give 'em the weenies, Woody would be proud.


And that's my point entirely.

Damn weenie greedy people!

Honestly, I really, REALLY doubt we'll have masses going "oh, let's go scam some hotdogs from those Woody Guthrie folk". Except kids. And I will always ALWAYS make sure a kid is fed, if I have to take the money from my pocket myself.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

I want my free hotdog shipped, please, along with a free Woodie Guthrie CD that I will win in a free raffle (you will enter my name, right Gid?)


sure. I'll send you a free Woody Guthrie CD and a hot dog...only $20 for shipping and handling...!

Will the hot dog still be hot?