[Ansteorra] First Event

[Michael Silverhands]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:09 AM, BeckysQuilt at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Quest for the Mud...was that the one where everyone's cars where
>> stuck in the
>> field and we had to be pulled out with a tractor?
>>
>> Elizabeth D.
>
> Hmmm. That doesn't narrow it down very much. I can think of a number
> of events which that describes. :-)
>
> Besides, why would you quest for the mud? There's often more than
> enough of that to go around. Like in Gunthar's Gulf War. :-)
>
> Stefan

It was a Black, White and Sort of Grey, if my memory serves. That's  
the event where a very nice man named David came along on Saturday  
morning with his tractor and rescued many who were stuck. (This was  
after Don Robert, et al, had spent much of Friday evening doing it  
the hard way, by hand.) He was thenceforth dubbed "Saint David", and  
apparently felt so welcome by us that he joined, took the name David  
St. David, and eventually became Baron of Ravensfort.

Unless I'm mixing up events in my mind, that's the event where  
Hillary Greenslade's car bottomed out in the mud in the middle of the  
erstwhile parking field. A gang of "beefy young men" (and some not so  
beefy) (and some not so young) surrounded the car and manually lifted  
it out of the goo. I was the lightest and smallest present (which  
should tell you something about the beefcake assembled) and was  
unanimously voted on the spot to be the one to sit in the driver's  
seat and try to drive Hillary's car out of the mud... assuming that  
we were able to lift it out of the mud in the first place. Everyone  
lifted, the car floated for a moment, I carefully engaged the  
accelerator, and miraculously drove out of that sodden place to  
higher ground. Hillary told me later that she had a moment of alarm  
when she realized I wasn't going to just drive a few feet, and kept  
on going... and going...

What she didn't know was there was *no way* I was going to let the  
car stop forward motion (if I could help it) until it was on solid  
ground again. :-)

Michael Silverhands