TAN #51: TAN and Deliver (Page 82)

Just wurkit and ATX right now.. I-donna is a gonna :D

so 1.5 is the ho tally

aidana - 2008-10-10 8:56 AM men don't like gadget? i'm in the mood for pizza......so....pizza it is!

Not this one.  The few I tried were too tight and constrictive...  Don't like...

Aikidoman - 2008-10-10 10:58 AM

aidana - 2008-10-10 8:56 AM men don't like gadget? i'm in the mood for pizza......so....pizza it is!

Not this one.  The few I tried were too tight and constrictive...  Don't like...

Never, ever tried one.  Call me old-fashioned, I guess.

Go swim?

OK - I have a small dilema (that certainly isn't spelled correctly).  I was asked and accepted an invitation o go to my donor's hometown tonight for their homecoming game (this would be her senior year).  It was on the way to the homecoming dance that she was in her accident.  I assumed it would be very low key - go to the football game and sit with the family and such.  One of my customers from that town called me today and told me that the entire high school is buzzing with the fact that I am coming tonight (it's a small town of about 9,000) and he thinks I will be "mobbed" at the game.  I'm somewhat uncomfortable with this. 

Our charity has organized a 5k run/walk for next spring named after Vanesa and all of the Seniors there have gotten really behind it (we are estimating at least 1,000 participants at this point - mostly from that town), but I have yet to meet any of the kids personally at this point, and wanted to do it under a "more controlled" atmosphere, not to mention that it will be an emotional event for the family and for me, and I assume for many of the students (2 year anniversary of the accident is next Thursday and my transplant anniversary is next Friday). 

So - smart boys and girls - what do I do now?

OK - I have a small dilema (that certainly isn't spelled correctly).  I was asked and accepted an invitation o go to my donor's hometown tonight for their homecoming game (this would be her senior year).  It was on the way to the homecoming dance that she was in her accident.  I assumed it would be very low key - go to the football game and sit with the family and such.  One of my customers from that town called me today and told me that the entire high school is buzzing with the fact that I am coming tonight (it's a small town of about 9,000) and he thinks I will be "mobbed" at the game.  I'm somewhat uncomfortable with this. 

Our charity has organized a 5k run/walk for next spring named after Vanesa and all of the Seniors there have gotten really behind it (we are estimating at least 1,000 participants at this point - mostly from that town), but I have yet to meet any of the kids personally at this point, and wanted to do it under a "more controlled" atmosphere, not to mention that it will be an emotional event for the family and for me, and I assume for many of the students (2 year anniversary of the accident is next Thursday and my transplant anniversary is next Friday). 

So - smart boys and girls - what do I do now?

I don't think you can get out of it.  You could play up the "be nice, I just had surgery" card to help prevent getting mobbed.

It's probably just me.  I like to have some semblance of control and I feel like this would be an out of control situation.  Then again, it maybe mountain out of a mole hill. 

I already cancelled once, as I was supposed to come to Pancake Day (seriously, that is their big festival, with a Pancake Queen and everything) but I was too ill to attend (it was 9/27), so I don't plan on not being there.  I guess my question is, how do I maintain control of the situation, if I can do it at all.

If it gets to be too much.. just tell them.. and i'm sure they will back off...