Crap Fairs, Gun Shows, and Expeditions, Oh My

Crap Fair!!!!

This weekend was one of the three Crap Fairs that you will usually find me, my Mom, Helen, and her best friend Marilyn, aka “Gert”.  It is held at the Great New York State Fairgrounds.  There are many buildings at the fairgrounds, how “Great” that is depends on who you are, your political affiliation, and how much money you are trying to get to make improvements.  But that, in and of itself, is “a whole nother barrel of monkeys”.  Trust me when I say I had enough monkeys flying in and around all sorts of barrels on Sunday.  If you need clarification of this, let me reiterate.  I took my Mother, Helen, and her BFF Gert to the Crap Fair this Weekend.  It’s a tradition.  Well, the Crap Fair in October is a tradition… the other 2 sprinkled in throughout the year, as well as our many trips to the Christmas Tree Shoppes, are just the Senokot Sprinkles on top of my otherwise calm life. 

Spring Gun Show

As I was saying, there are many buildings on the premises that is home to the Great New York State Fair.  They try to keep them rented out all year long by getting people to hold all sorts of events there every weekend.  So, not only was the “Country Folk Art Show” (also known as the “Crap Fair”, where you can find all sorts of neat things made in China, hand filled cannolis for $7.50 each, Verizon Fios, and about 4 booths of handmade items) there, but also the Spring Premiere Horse Show, the Nature-Tyme’s 15^th Annual Health Fair, and the Syracuse Spring Gun Show.  The whole fairgrounds were simply hopping with the movement of cars and signs with arrows.  Needless to say, I got a little misplaced and drove around a bit aimlessly, following signs with arrows, until they disappeared.  Then I drove around some more until I relocated more signs with arrows, until they disappeared again.  Finally, I found someone in an orange safety vest, and I pulled up next to him, and stated the obvious.

The ACTUAL Expedition.. I was bored.

“I’m so sorry, sir, but I believe I’m probably lost.”  His follow up question surprised me.  “How much gas do you have?”  “umm, I just filled up, actually.”  He answered me with a huge grin and said “Then you aren’t nearly as lost as you could be!!  You are just starting a grand adventure!!!!  You are at the gun show; I take it that’s not where you want to be?”  I couldn’t help myself.  “I’d love to go, but I don’t have any tickets!!!!”, and I showed him my bicep.  AND he laughed at my joke!!!  I did like him!!!  And he pointed out where I needed to go.  So, while I was waiting for Mom and Gert, I was lucky enough to watch 4 other men in orange safety vests help this tiny, TINY woman park her HUGE Ford Expedition!  And that got me to thinking.  When you buy a camper, the camper store won’t sell you a camper if your truck will not safely tow it.  If you imbibe too much alcohol and drive home drunk and kill someone, you actually can sue the bartender for continue to serve a drunken person alcohol.  So why can car dealers sell such huge vehicles to people who cannot even see over the steering wheel?  (Welcome to a glimpse of my mind….  Sorry for the tangent.)

Possible Sign for Car Dealers

I was a bit disappointed in the Crap Fair this time around.  I think I will hold off on completely saying “Waste of time” until after October.  I understand February was a total waste, so they are taking that one off the schedule, and moving it to the beginning of December, instead.  I’m thinking that will be a great move on their part.  I would like to see them get in some new vendors, too.  Keep the people from Pennsylvania, though!!  They are my favorites and have the best stuff!  They are always in the far right corner, in the back.  On top of that, if they are going to keep booking so many venues for the fairgrounds, they need to spread them out more, and improve the parking and traffic flow, especially with the signage.  And maybe car dealers should have those yard sticks that state “You need to be This Tall to Drive This Car”.  That’s me.  I’m the Idea Girl.  

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