Dragonfly
04-02-2007, 11:13 AM
Friday Night at a school i do regularly set up spot on everything looking great ready to take a few pics of the lasers to put up here .... got everything going got the camera and walked to the end of the hall ......... sudden blackness.....
heres dragonfly thinking omg ive blown all the electrics tripped a fuse etc..... found the caretaker......whole town out...... 6.40 with 200 kids arriving in 20 mins.
phone call to leccy people "should be back on by 9pm!!!!"
7pm comes disco cancelled as no power .... dismantled went home disappointed.
saturday...... arrived at 6 at a local cricket club in the middle of a park. went to visit the venue with the client on wednesday night who said the manager will open the main gate for on on saturday so you can pull right up outside.
arrived no gate open so parked in the leisure centre carpark on the edge of the park .... went in to the venue and found the manager and asked for the gate to be opened ......"sorry mate park keeper has the keys not me" at this point bare in mind id parked in a carpark which must have been at least 120 metres from the venue over a 4ft wall and across an unlit field and yes it was soaked under foot........ after a brief moment of panic i showed the manager the gear that had to be carried across the sodden field in pitch black at which point he saw the problem and the client wanted a 7.30pm start .... not going to happen in those circumstances as it was now about 6.20pm.
client was rightfully livid and offered to help carry all the gear which of course i declined firstly because i didnt want to approach my insurers with a claim that a member of the public had a crushed leg while carrying a speaker across an unlit soaked field!!!!!
secondly its my disco my service and no way am i ever going to ask anyone to carry their own flippin disco!!!
well club manager managed to source some keys which were bought down for just after 6.40pm thank god......
drove up and was set up by 7.20pm amazing what pressure does to a person .... mind you my typing finger is about the only thing thats actually working on my whole body.
if i had had to carry it all over the hard way think i may well have ended up hospitalized.
definately one to forget...
heres dragonfly thinking omg ive blown all the electrics tripped a fuse etc..... found the caretaker......whole town out...... 6.40 with 200 kids arriving in 20 mins.
phone call to leccy people "should be back on by 9pm!!!!"
7pm comes disco cancelled as no power .... dismantled went home disappointed.
saturday...... arrived at 6 at a local cricket club in the middle of a park. went to visit the venue with the client on wednesday night who said the manager will open the main gate for on on saturday so you can pull right up outside.
arrived no gate open so parked in the leisure centre carpark on the edge of the park .... went in to the venue and found the manager and asked for the gate to be opened ......"sorry mate park keeper has the keys not me" at this point bare in mind id parked in a carpark which must have been at least 120 metres from the venue over a 4ft wall and across an unlit field and yes it was soaked under foot........ after a brief moment of panic i showed the manager the gear that had to be carried across the sodden field in pitch black at which point he saw the problem and the client wanted a 7.30pm start .... not going to happen in those circumstances as it was now about 6.20pm.
client was rightfully livid and offered to help carry all the gear which of course i declined firstly because i didnt want to approach my insurers with a claim that a member of the public had a crushed leg while carrying a speaker across an unlit soaked field!!!!!
secondly its my disco my service and no way am i ever going to ask anyone to carry their own flippin disco!!!
well club manager managed to source some keys which were bought down for just after 6.40pm thank god......
drove up and was set up by 7.20pm amazing what pressure does to a person .... mind you my typing finger is about the only thing thats actually working on my whole body.
if i had had to carry it all over the hard way think i may well have ended up hospitalized.
definately one to forget...