October 2010 : This month’s winner of the Golden Wing Nut: Pat Riley

This month’s Wing Nut story lacks the drama and twists of previous issues. In fact,
I think you’ll agree that it lacks any kind of imagination at all. As tradition, last month’s
winner, Tom Taylor, presided over the nominations. The Chapter Director’s name was
mentioned several times before the proceedings even started as Tom retold his “confession:
I know Pat Riley” story of last month. Much laughter ensued. Pat nervously
worked a little dental sword into the crevices of his teeth. He was leery of the direction of
this was heading already.

Once started, the nominations rolled like an avalanche. Barry (who else?) started by
nominating Pat for a bald tire. Never mind that the tire was replaced at the very first
opportunity. Then some wise guy nominated Pat for the pathetic reason of forgetting the
gathering agenda. It was beginning to look like a pile-on with a bunch of artless fluff.
The CD weighed into the fracas by attempting to add a little gravitas. He
nominated Tom Hendrey for making unsafe, unannounced stops on Highway 1 while
working Waves to Wine. But his appeal to The Gathering for thoughtful reflection was
turned away. Already intoxicated with the beguiling smell of spilled blood, the foaming
crowd was not to be dissuaded. Someone shouted out that Pat must have been following
Tom too closely. And another nomination was sent up.

Not satisfied with the visage of Pat splayed against the ropes, bloodied and barely
breathing, pulse weakening, the accusations became personal. “I nominated Pat for
flossing his teeth during the meeting.”

The prey sank slowly to his jellied knees. One . . . last . . . gasp of breath rasped
from him. “I nominate Aylesa for having a great smile,” he wheezed, then collapsed.

The rabble consecrated their massacre by devouring his flesh.

August 2010 : This month’s winner of the Golden Wing Nut: Barry Bullock

The story goes like this, if I can remember it correctly. It seems that on one of the few
truly hot days we’ve had this summer, Aylesa Bullock discovered the air conditioning in her
house was not working. “Don’t worry,” said Barry, it’s probably the capacitor. I’ll take care
of it when I get home.” Barry was fairly certain of his diagnosis because it had happened before.

Now, you need to understand, Barry is a master mechanic. There is not a problem with
an automobile he cannot fix. But at home his problem-solving acumen is a little less than stellar
His motto is I can fix anything . . . with duct tape.

At home Barry went earnestly to work on the malfunctioning conditioner. After
changing the capacitor he switched the power on. Presently he noticed a wire he had neglected
to replace. Because the unrestrained wire was near a hot lead he tried gingerly to move it away.
Unfortunately, he slightly pushed instead of pulled, and zzzapppp – a bright blue electric arc!
Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), the big, expensive appliance was now not just
malfunctioning, but non-functioning. Dead. Kaput.

After the repair service had left a bill for $1060 Barry told Aylesa “Next time the air
conditioner goes out, don’t tell me. Just call Freschi!”

March 2008 - This months honor goes to Jack Fischer..

On March 1st, we had a Maintenance Day hosted at Barry & Alyesa's home. Jack had purchased new helmets for he and Sunny. However, Sunny had asked that her boom mike be put on the right side of her helmet. But, Jack decided that he couldn't do it because the comm plug was on the left side of the bike. As it turned out, he forgot that he could have simply removed his seat and moved the comm plug to the right side of the bike. As a kicker, when he got finished, he had installed HIS boom on the right side!

February 2008 - This months honor goes to Patrick de Werk.

First of all, Patrick is our Chapter Educator. As such, we depend upon him to keep us safe and informed. He won the nomination this month due to him for allowing such incredable wear on his back tire. The pictures tell the story.


Thanks for the education Patrick!

January 2008 - This months honor goes to Robert "Ditto" Picard .

When we met up on 1/1/08 for the Polar Bear run, Ditto shows up on his BMW. Hmmm...something seems to be missing on his machine. Check this out. He's missing one of his hard saddle bags. As the story goes, he was out and about and when he arrived at his destination, he's missing the bag. No idea when he lost it or where. The only thing for sure is that to replace it, his wallet will be about $1,100.00 lighter. Oooops!

December 2007 - This months honor goes to Mike Gregory.

When Mike decided he wanted to go to the motorcycle show with the rest of the gang, John was nice enough to offer the use of his bike being as he would be out of town. Mike took him up on his offer and rode it that day with no mishaps.

While I was on my way back from Magalia he asked me to meet him at John's so he could drop his bike off. John was still out of town so Mike had to put it in the trailer he keeps it in. I waited at the truck as he pulled it up the ramp. He was just about all the way in when I looked up and noticed he hadn't layed the antenas down. (oops!) He stopped about one inch from the opening!
It was a tight fit and after many tries, he finally got it in there just right, then gets out and puts the locks on. As we are getting ready to pull away we notice John's helmet is sitting outside the trailer. So he gets out and opens the trailer and as he's in there he finds his own glasses sitting on John's seat.
Mike and I hadn't seen each other for a week and a half.....I wonder where his mind was??

November 2007 - This months honor goes to Marce Ageev.

It was for getting off the bike on the wrong side and making it fall while Alex was getting ready to fuel up.. She also was nominated for letting the secret out about Alex's broken foot peg.