17 Oct 06 Field Trip
My favorite school field trip (at least the one I can remember) was touring the Coca Cola bottling plant in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We all got mini glass coke bottles. I think my parents still have it somewhere. It’s probably lost some of its fizz by now.
Today, I’m going on a field trip with Reese and his class. We are scheduled to tour a trophy factory. Please begin the jokes and puns at your leisure. What to get the winner of the best joke or pun . . . what to get the winner?
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I’ve never heard of a trophy factory. However, I remember going to the dairy farm one year, and to the sugar beet factory another. No awards for that, though.
Is there a factory store where you can buy irregular or out-of-style trophies at a discount? I’m looking for a trophy for my brother-in-law to recognize him for being one of the few men on the planet to go into a fine Paris restaurant and ask for ketchup. Please forgive him, he’s a Texan, and they put ketchup on everything.
Living on the “Space Coast†next to the Kennedy Space Center it is probably natural that my favorite field trip was to KSC. Our entire Jr.High (what were they thinking) toured the Space Center in the classic NASA Tour Busses. I still remember our tour guide pointing out as we passed the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) that the roof of the VAB was large enough to contain Yankee Stadium.
Of course the field trip was most serendipitous since we also missed a day of school as well.
About the only field trip I remember from high school is going from Montgomery to Birmingham, Alabama (about 90 miles) to see the movie, “Gone with the Wind.” I think it was supposed to be some really spectacular film, but a buddy of mine and I skipped out of the theater and hung around downtown Birmingham for four hours. We were also caught by the teacher and got into a lot of trouble. I’ve learned, though, that “a lot of trouble” at that age is just a passing memory at this age.