WAG - What to add to the toolbox?
Here is my conundrum brought on by the continuation of a Cramer-Defoe staff tradition started during training week:
At the end of every night, we would vote to recognize a person. The nominations could be for being optimistic, slinging through a lot of crud, being a good leader, being a good servant, etc. The winner would receive a toolbox. It was filled with items added by previous winners and they were to add something (and tell a story about its meaning or symbolism) before passing it on.
On the last night of training, before the vote our hall coordinator, our boss, said the person to receive it would decide whether or not to continue the tradition. After a brief discussion where pretty much everyone said we should keep it going, we started taking nominations. After a few speeches, we had one person go through every member of the staff and tout their strengths and contributions before nominating the hall coordinator for bringing us all together.
It should be no surprise that after a feel good speech like that, we gave the award to our boss for having to put up with all of us.
Anyway, after over a week’s absence, the toolbox reappeared at last night’s meeting.
I ended up winning the award for juggling opening week activities (Dinners, scavenger hunts, Tiger Walk, and more) with band camp responsibilities along with general peppiness.
I now have a week to think of what to add to the toolbox.
Here’s a list of the current items in the toolbox:
A shiny Bluesband harmonica,
A battered gray carabineer,
A box of party snaps (those Chinese gunpowder and paper noisemakers),
A blue knitted pad,
A package of maple and brown sugar oatmeal,
A container of instant Krazy Glue,
A pin with Stewie from Family Guy on it,
A handheld battery powered fan,
An earthen shot glass from Spain with a bull on it,
A red ribbon that reads TEAM PLAYER from 1999,
And a group picture of this year’s staff
Note: I'd list the significance of the items if it weren't for the fact that some of them are pretty personal and not something to be thoughtlessly posted in cyberspace. You are free to make your own conjunctions, but will receive no confirmations from me other than the meaning I will attach to my own addition.
With such an eclectic collection, I wonder what I should put in?
I’ll let you know in a week what I added to the mix.
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