<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have happier memories of the Saturday that was widely vaunted as the End Of The World, when a swarm of bees entered the flea market without a ticket and settled on one of the stands. Not quite a plague of locusts, but an enjoyable day nonetheless.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, the very elderly lady walking around the Arena early on Friday morning in the year 200<i class="">n</i>, wearing a tee shirt bearing the words “I Survived Hamvention 200<i class="">n</i>”. Optimism is everything.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Phil M1GWZ</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Sep 2020, at 00:02, RICHARD BARTH <<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" class="">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">Does anyone remember the time when the sewage line from the</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">Arena broke down, and there was "whatever" on the ground just</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">outside the Arena? The inside toilets had to be closed and the </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">porta-potties outside were going full blast. The exhibitors just</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">around the break were getting everything off the ground and into</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">their cars, trucks, or whatever. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;" class="">I consider it one of the Hamvention's least famous occasions.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>