The Houston MINI Motoring Society (HMMS) has an annual luncheon on or around Valentine's Day for the folks who are at the Ronald McDonald House in Houston's Medical Center. Besides serving food to the kiddies and their parents, HMMS donates paper towels, since that is the number one item RMH needs. Last year HMMS members donated 238 rolls. Since I've got a wholesale license, I went to our local wholesale district to get a better price. I purchased 4 cases, figuring that I'd be getting 4 cases of 24 each--easy to fit in a MINI, right? Wrong! Curbside, it turned out to be 4 cases of 24 TWO-packs...

What does a MINI look like with 192 rolls of paper towels? Ridiculous! Had a huge pile on the passenger seat, and everything else in the back, blocking windows and rear view mirror. The right side view mirror was pretty blocked, too, and everything shifted frequently. I opened the boot to see if I could rearrange something, and a whole bunch fell out. For every one I put in, two fell out! A real Fibber McGee's closet (I know, I know, I'm old.)

I called the prez in sort of a panic to see if there was anyone in southwest Houston who could take some. He suggested one of the members with an office fairly close, and I got directions to his office. I prayed that no cops would see me, but of course I saw every officer in Houston and the surrounding communities...including the one on the freeway frontage road who made my radar detector scream with enough volume that I thought he was the arresting officer.

Made it! My friend took quite a few off my hands to put in HIS MINI, and I was able to safely drive home. I was really sweating it because I live about 60 miles from where I picked up the paper towels. Next time I'll ASK before I buy!

 

Fibber McGee? And Molly? My Dad talks about that. Old timey radio show, right?

Congratulations to you and HMMS on your good works.

 

Well, I'm not so old that I listened to Fibber McGee on the radio (except for casettes of old radio programs), but I'm old enough that it was quite fresh in people's memories.

 

'Ere ya go ! For the BOTH of you !

http://www.archive.org/details/FibberMcGeeandMolly1947

Fibber McGee mp3's that you can listen to !

 

Great story!! I'm old enough to remember all the radio shows [74] and as Molly would say,"taint so Mcgee".