09/01/05 - Getting Thrown out of the Harrow Fair
Donnie's favorite Essex County festival is the Harrow Fair (for reasons unknown to everyone); so anyway, he gets us all riled up to go & we head out in the Cargo Van (Digger & I) & Steve's car (Steve & Donnie).
Steve's car needed it's rims cleaned before we went so Donnie, Digger & I headed over to the boxing club for some hoops & forties.
Donnie found a bike for a backflip but no ramp.
We finished our forties & watched some young girls play basketball. Other than that, I went down a slide in a shopping cart & some kid knew Donnie as 'that guy who can backflip.' So once Steve got there, we departed for the mighty town of Harrow.
First thing we spot when we get there is a plethora of tractors & farm equipment on display. This will come into play later.
Upon more exploration we find the main attraction; some country band to which people are watching while sitting on planks atop hay bails. This is no Sunsplash; I can tell you that.
Inside we find the area of competition where items (such as these duct tape animals) compete for ribbons.
Winning sunflowers.
An autographed picture of a Wayne Newton impersonator.
Steve excited about large cucumbers.
An animal made out of vegetables.
Darryl on a large pumpkin.
Steve from behind a large pumpkin.
We had enough of that so we headed back over to the trailers again since Steve & Donnie hadn't been over there yet.
The Zipper.
Donnie & Steve got the idea of buying a shirt with something funny on it. Well they looked in the book & then Steve just proposed that Donnie pay the guy to write something on it...
...Go Smoke a Dick!
People were giving out dirty looks like it was there job.
For the third time we headed over & chilled on the tractors.
Well anyway, Donnie was turning on the four ways & headlights on this tractor. Some dude came over & told him to stop it; so Donnie did & we stood around for a bit. This dude kept eyeing us up & we just sat there...after all he didn't tell us to leave, he simply told us to stop turning on the lights.
After time passed, that got boring. So we just decided to leave & the 5-0's rolled up on us & ran our id's & threw out questions like why aren't we drinking in downtown Windsor. We tried to explain that it was probably a better thing to be supporting the Harrow Fair then getting in a fight downtown; but these cops were just some of those close-minded assholes we all know & love.
So we got kicked out the Harrow Fair. Thank god for labour day - instead of standing on a line plugging in wire harnesses; I was getting thrown out of the Harrow Fair; ah the working man way!
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