Monday Night Hottie

This is our Monday night and although we both dread going to work at bingo, once we're there, at least I love it.  If I do say so myself, "I am HOT out there".  I'm not sure if it's because the folks are getting up there in the years, their vision is getting worse or I'm just damn HOT.  I absolutely love joking with them and some nights I will even call out a table if they refuse to buy a 50-50 raffle ticket from me.  Usually it is table 12 who refuses to cooperate and pay me for services rendered.  So I threaten to expose them as cheap non-CPA supporting bingo players but that doesn't even work so I'm forced to just turn my back on them and provide my services elsewhere.  Our progressive pot is really getting up there so I will have many more people to harass this next week.  Although we are happy when a person wins the jackpot, we'd also like to hang onto it to build up our crowd.  I keep hoping that before I go to Florida on December 28th I get a chance to break my 50-50 sales record of 440 tickets in one night.  I am still wearing my summer shorts and showing off some leg but I guess I'll have to resort to my old 70's hot pants to induce people to buy.  In short, I love working with the people but I'm still refusing to wait on tables at the Pine Cone in spite of them asking me again.  I'm not that stupid.

Contest Winner

There was very little enthuseasm regarding our last contest so only one person played and she finally won.  Maureen or Jefferson won a gift certificate to Brick Haus in Jefferson for lunch.   Thank you for humoring us Maureen and winning the contrest.  For those of you who were too chicken to play the answer was Martha Stewart Assembly Tool.   The clues were all out there for you to win. 

Here is th epicture.  Another contest will follow. 



 

She's a NUT

As everyone is aware, if Steve and I are not home you can find us up at the Pine Cone.  We have gotten to know all the girls up there and we get pretty good servie from all of them.  When you think about it in perspective, it's kind of a sad life but they like us and we like the gals up there. 

The gal giving this stupid looking guy a bad time is our favorite up at the Cone, Sharon.  She is an oldster at the Cone but she really gives me a bad time and I give her the same back.  The other day she was training a new server that I needed to step in and give the new girl some pointers.  I said to Emily, "Do you want to be a good waitress at the Cone?" and she said "Yes".  I responded by saying that anything Sharon tells you, do the opposite and you'll be the best waitress here.  I got struck. 

All kidding aside, Sharon is one of the hardest working ladies we know.  She cleans five or six houses including ours and the Jefferson Bus offices.   She has the most delightful personality and I really think she will use the tips I gave her in a later post on this blog. 

Our Little Boy

Our little boy is all grown up and is still a pistol.  Months ago I told Steve that I wanted to get a laser pointer and see what he did with it.  At first he wasn't sure but he soon learned that he could chase it.  The part he still hasn't caught onto is that he will never catch it.  Someone told me that doing this to our dog will give him OCD.   He's yet to dust, shine the wood floors or alphabetize our spices but he sure does love it a lot. 

When Mr. Moe sees us going near what we call Mousy his tail goes down, he gets into a lunging position and his right paw comes up.  Then he runs full force chasing the mouse back and forth across the house.  Steve did it so long the other day that he puked.   (Moe, not Steve) That wasn't so good but the little guy just loves it.  As you can see, he was pretty worn out but it keeps him out of trouble and as a puppy, he is still full of energy. 

Moe also has to work to earn his keep.  Each day when Steve gets ready for work Moe gets very uptight and wants to go to work.  When Steve is ready he asks Moe if he wants to go to work and he runs out the garage door and sits by the front door of Steve's car.  When he gets to work he makes his rounds, everyone holds him and he lays under Steve's desk until someone comes in again to hold him.  The other day Steve had a private meeting with a new driver and shut his door.  You can see that Moe was not happy to be excluded. 

Beauty is Only Skin Deep But.............

During our July and August visit to our home in The Villages, our dear friends convinced us to go to a "show" and lunch with a bunch of friends.  What is the old saying?  With friends like this, who needs enemies?  The singers were really not singers but lip syncing to various songs.  If you look closely at the singers they were also not what they appeared to be either.
The afternoon started out by our waitress planting herself and the end of our table of eight and saying in a loud voice, and I quote "liten up fellas, I'm only going to say this once....  the vegetables are corn, carrots, cold slaw and apple sauce".  That just got me started and I knew it was going to be a rough day.  I laughed so hard at that I just knew I was in for trouble. 

After the lunch the "ladies", and I use that word lightly, came out to sing their songs.  We were told to place the tips in a certain part of their clothing which I simply would not do.  Every Monday night at bingo I get soggy dollars bills from that piece of clothing and I certainly was not going to participate in that. 

Being the smart a-- I am I decided to give them a little run for their money so I put the first dollar bill in between the buttons of my shirt.  Lady Gabriel came and politely took it.  The next time she came around I put the bill a little further into my shirt and this time she unbuttoned my shirt.  I was a bit appalled.   So at this point I was laughing so hard I thought I'd give it one more try and put it in there again.  This time Joan Crawford came to get it and proceeded to put my face between her piggy banks if you know what I mean which embarrassed the hell out of me but I deserved it and got a wild round of applause. 

I think it's very important to understand that I had nothing to drink except a diet soda.  God knows what would have happened had I been drinking.  After the show they both came out to apologize for teasing me and to say what a good sport I am.   I think Steve might have been a bit embarrassed but what the hell, you only live once and I hope this show was the first and last one I end up at.  I have to admit, we did laugh a lot.  Our dear friend Jimm told the other guys at our table that Steve was the conservative one but Brian.......  Should I be insulted? 

I have since gone up to the Pine Cone and suggested that they get the attention of the entire dinning room and say, "listen up people, the specials are....... and I'm not telling you this again".  They liked it.

BINGO ANGER

One would think that playing bingo should be fun and most of the time is it.  This last Monday night our jackpot reached just under $3000 so people were tense, and that is an understatement. 

The evening started by a man coming up to Steve at the payout table telling Steve that he put his bingo stuff down on the table and someone moved the "stuff" from his lucky spot.  He told Steve that after he had a cigarette and came back in, if his stuff was moved there is going to hell to pay.  Well, he came back inside and the ladies moved his stuff from his lucky spot so once again, up to Steve he goes telling Steve that they moved his stuff.  Steve got up and went out to the spot and asked if they couldn't just get along and pointe dout that the room was packed and perhaps they could sit some other place.  He said "she moved my daubber" so the lady said I'm sorry, and moved it back about an inch which really got him going.  Finally a friend of his came along and got him to sit on the upper balcony.Now keep in mind, these are people in their 30's and 40's at least.

For anyone who has played bingo it is usually played "last number called" meaning if thenext number is called and you do't have a bingo you can't call the previous bingo late.  Well, Joyce called bingo just as the caller began the next number thus she lost.  This lady went nuts and it wasn't even the lady who won.  She began yelling at Steve that he (Steve) heard the call and they are being ignored at the bar where they sit.  The call back lady asked if she thought we should be them wireless microphones.  She settled down for a minute then went to the bathroom.  She must have been constapated because she came out more angry and this time she blamed the floor worker at the payout table and we were too noicy.  We finally told her that everyone plays on the main floor and she whould play out there.  She left in a huff.  The call back lady told the caller and he announced that if he does not hear the bingo at the stage it is invalid.  Well, that got her going again.  It as just horrible.  I was sitting there and I heard Joyce call the bingo after the next number was called.  Joyce never said a thing and the call back lady heard the late call all the way across the room.   Steve took the brunt of most everyone's anger that night.  It wsa frustrating but he has a way of handling this with a great amount of composure.  I'd have told her to go -----herself.  She is just mean. 

For those of you old enough to remember Lily Tomlin she had a great line that Steve had altered to fit the event.  "Wouldn't you rather cooperate than lose the game and possibly the use of one eye".  We laughed about it the rest of Monday night.  This next weekend should be a real hoot.  The jackpot will be around $3500.  Steve willneed a body guard. 

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Well, after a long class in real estate law, many test, 250 flash cards and 72 hours of watching Wisocnsin Realtor's Association DVD's, I finally had the nerve to take my state license exam and it was not easy.  Every now and then I'll think of a term off the top of my head and will look it up on the itnernet to keep my old brain working.  The funny part, if there was a funny part is that the test hardly ever asked about easements, incumberances, or any of that stuff.  It was all about fair houseing, lead based paint, material adverse facts, and you'd better know every one of the forms you will need to go into practice.  I wrote to the teacher of the law class and told her to let the other classmates know that if they know the forms you can answer even the most difficult questions because you just have to find it on the forms.  There was a bunch of stuff about time limits regarding the submitting of papers but you could find it all in the forms IF you know which form to look at. 

I was blessed anough to have a friend of mine, Chris Nash take me on as a "very part time" sales associate.  I am really doing this to help out down there when there isn't a realtor on the floor.  I usually work on Fridyas so the hope is that someone will come in or call on Friday.  This next week I work Wednesday and Friday. 

I did make the local paper and did get a "sort of" lead from it.  Trina is working on my newspaper inserts so maybe I'll land a coupld customers.  The article is below.  I've been told I look like a murderer in the picture.  A local mailman asked Chris how he got my mug shot numbers off my shirt.  Boy it's a rough crowd in Jefferson.

MONFRE JOINS CENTURY 21 INTEGRITY GROUP

 Century 21 Integrity group of Jefferson is proud to announce the addition of Brian Monfre to their sales staff.  Brian received his real estate sales license in December 2011 after successfully completing the Wisconsin Realtor’s Association class along with a course in real estate law at MATC.  Brian is currently working on obtaining his license to practice real estate in Florida with an emphasis in home sales in The Villages, Florida where he owns a home.

 Brian’s goal is to maintain a smaller number of real estate clients so I can provide personalized, convenient service while making a sometimes difficult transaction as pleasant as possible. 

 Brian is better known in the community as the owner of Jefferson Bus Service where he has worked for 33 years purchasing the company from his father in 1990.

 In his spare time Brian is the current treasurer for the Jefferson Council for the Performing Arts and is known as the 50-50 raffle man every Monday Night Bingo.  “I really enjoy the time I spend working for the Council.  Every event is a challenge”.

 Brian is currently offering a free Comparative Market Analysis through the end of June 2012 to anyone who might be interested in listing their home with Century 21.  It is important to remember that as an MLS (Multiple Listing Service) sales representative, Century 21 Integrity Group is able to show homes from any other MLS listing from participating agencies, not just homes listed by Century 21. 

 Brian is now accepting customers through the Century 21 Integrity Group office at (920) 674-2041 extension 111.