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Vanity Plates, Part 6 - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

These things just keep turning up.

Water Cooler - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

I saw this water cooler in a doctor's office waiting area. Please take note of the paper sign that was taped to the cooler:

As I waited my turn to see the doctor, one of the young women of the office staff came into the waiting area, walked over to this water cooler where she untaped the paper sign from the bottom, took one of the plastic cups from the stack of cups above, filled that cup from the spigot, taped the paper sign back into place and carried her filled cup of water back to the office area.

I leave analysis of the forgoing scenario to the reader's imagination.

At my next visit, I saw that same water cooler, but notice something:

There was no taped on sign!!

Somebody said something, I think.

Concertina Millie - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

I once wrote about my Uncle Harry and how he performed musically in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as "Montana Chubby".

https://licn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2019/08/montana-chubby-john-dunn-consultant-ambertec-pe-pc.html

I also mentioned Uncle Harry's having performed with Concertina Millie who was very widely known and listened to in Milwaukee, but so far as I know, never anywhere outside of that city. Still, she had a long and active career to which a quick Google search will attest:

In the summer of 1968, I was visiting Uncle Harry in Milwaukee and not too far away, in the parking lot of a local strip mall, an utterly enormous tent had been set up with hundreds of folding chairs, a dais at one end with microphones, lights, a piano and lots of guitars and there we were treated to a concert by Concertina Millie herself. The crowd, and yes I do mean crowd, was joyous!!

One of the songs called for audience participation as in "EEE - IIII  -  EEE  -  IIII  -   EEE  -   IIII  -   OH!!!!", not the refrain from Old MacDonald but something quite different and that mass of humanity was caught up in it but good.

There were two men seated just behind Uncle Harry and myself and when the number was finished, one said to the other "Man!!! I haven't done that since I was a KID."

I have been to a lot of musical performances over time as in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Washington Irving High School in lower Manhattan and I've been in a lot of concerts in high school and college glee clubs, the Nashua Choral Society in New Hampshire and, of course, in the Armand Sodero Chorale but I have never anywhere else seen an audience so completely enthralled as that one was that evening in Milwaukee.

It delights me to have the memory.