SC - After feast

[Aelfwyn at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/11/99 3:11:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com 
writes:

<< At 10:41 AM -0500 4/11/99, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
 
 
 >My Viceroy (who functions more or less as a Baron, so I won't have to go
 >into what a Viceroy actually is in the SCA) is also a Master of the
 >Pelican, and has some proteges, who are essentially retainers and
 >Pelicans-in-training. He has contrived a swearing-in ceremony something
 >like the one used in the East when a knight takes a squire: in this case
 >he has another protege stand next to him, carrying a bowl of warm sudsy
 >water and a towel. He asks the candidate if they are willing to be his
 >protege, explains what that will mean, and then seals the contract by
 >placing the new protege's hands in the bowl of suds, saying, "Let this
 >be the first of _many_ tubs of dishwater you will put your hands into,
 >in my service." This is always good for a laugh, but no one misses the
 >serious side of what, for the people involved, has very serious meaning.
 
 My version of that, from the Miscellany:
 
 "What do you call the last man out of the kitchen at an event?"
 "Your Majesty"
 Old joke.
 Unfortunately.
 
 David/Cariadoc
 http://www.best.com/~ddfr/ >>

Alas, at our last feast we had very little help in the kitchen to clean up or 
to serve. I have a faithful crew for preparing the feast, and they always can 
be counted on to stay with me until the place is spotless afterward. Our 
servers were 90% under age 10, and they did a remarkable job. Our local 
Knight and Pelican did serve, however made it clear they were only serving 
the royal table, would not wear the Provincial tabards the other servers wore 
and made "demands" in how they wanted things to come from the kitchen to them 
that nearly caused a small war. Freya had a fit when she found all of us 
still in the kitchen doing the cleanup and made me promise not to do again 
next time. But I can guarantee our local Pelican will not be caught washing 
dishes, unless maybe Cariadoc's quote is reality and the schmooze factor is 
raised high enough. Many of the people that had signed up ahead of time to 
serve and clean up decided not to attend the event at the last minute for 
other reasons. Yup, we have local political problems. Any advice on how to 
avoid the 50+ member Province always having the same 10 people doing the 
grunt work?
Discouraged,
Aelfwyn
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