TSF 2007

Been gone for a while but I’m back again. (Wasn’t that song lyric?) But you know the drill—had a lot to do on the house in my downtime after work. I’ve made a lot of progress but there is still much to do. I am trying to think of it in manageable chunks so as not to have a panic attack. It’s rewarding work though; it’s nice to mow the yard or paint a room and stand back and say, “I did this and I get to reap the benefit of it.”

TSF ‘07

I’ve been trying to save money lately since I have no idea what my utilities will be like in this new space. Part of this includes putting myself on a tight budget in terms of going out. And I like to think I’ve done a pretty damn good job of keeping things under control thus far. (Yeah for me. I’m giving myself a pat on the back.) So it was Tulsa State Fair time last week and E and I have a tradition of going, if for no other reason than to freak-watch. I had already made up my mind after hearing of several injuries on rides that I was not even going to consider wasting my money on that. I love to ride rides but for $5 a pop and not under threat of maiming. No thanks, I have too much to live for. I searched for coupons but didn’t find any. Luckily, E had a $3 off admission coupon from her cable bill. So I was able to make it through the entire TSF on five bucks. And I got more than that in what we saw. I’ll just start listing off the sights, sounds and issues:

*One of my fave parts of the fair is the animal exhibit. I told E that they need to make a time for adults only so that you don’t get crowded out of the petting zoo by grubby children with no manners. And believe me, they were plentiful. A lot of kids feeding the animals and touching dirty surfaces and then putting their hands right in their mouths. It was way gross.

*A donkey tried to eat my camera, which I was fine with because he was nicer than the children around me.

*E saw an alpaca with a funny grooming job and screamed, loud as hell, “What the fuck was that?” Then caught herself because kids were around and was like, “Oh. Sorry.” I cracked up.

*We saw kids who looked like they belonged on MTV’s Engaged and Underaged everywhere.

*We saw an odd man who looked like he was trying to be a mobster walking around in the heat of the fair in a freakin’ 1980s Miami Vice style suit.

*There were kids playing inside the ambulance and tearing it up.

*I saw a man with an inflatable hammer holding it like a penis and trying to use it on the exhaust pipe of a dune buggy to impress a group of teen girls.

*I ran into an old friend from high school (who looked great, by the way) and E told me his girlfriend gave me the stink eye repeatedly. This is no shock—the story of my life, really.

*The mullets and mohawks were represented.

*A lot of men who looked straight up To Catch A Predator were there in full force.

*Greasy food and obese people eating it abounded.

*Carnies. That word speaks for itself.