Re: [Harp-L] SPAH 2013 numbers?

[Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Well Bob, when I got there early Thursday afternoon, nothing was left
but odd sizes.  And I was a little irritated about it, so maybe a bit of
that carried over into my post.  I should have mentioned that there was one
small tee left that probably would have fit a 90 lb person.  The guy tried
to hard sell me the extra large and it was easily twice as wide as I was.
I'm 170lbs these days, so I genuinely thought the tee was appropriate for
somebody 300 lbs.  I can fit into some X-large tees myself, but this one
wasn't even close.  Didn't intend to offend anybody by the remark, was just
describing the size of the tee left.  Probably could have done that another
way, so I'm going to apologize to you and the list for being descriptively
insensitive.

Mick Zaklan


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Bob Harty <bharty@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Nice sensitive comment about 300 pounds and the x-large t-shirts......
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >   Anybody have a final attendance count?  It should be pretty good.  I
> > knew something was up when I pulled in early Thursday afternoon and the
> > SPAH t-shirts were already gone---- unless you weighed 300 lbs and could
> > fit into an extra-large.  Which was a shame, because I thought this
> year's
> > shirt logo was probably the best one I've seen at these gatherings.
> Later
> > on that afternoon, someone said the attendance number was over 500.  I'm
> > assuming it climbed even higher.
> >   At the Sacramento SPAH, a fest that people were initially worried about
> > because of low pre-registration, I spoke to one of the officials in
> > charge.  I was told that the organization could absorb one bad,
> > money-losing convention.  Two in a row and SPAH would probably cease to
> > exist.  That particular convention wound up doing fine.
> > Hopefully, especially after the 2013 affair, we have a bit of a surplus
> > built up to weather any future storms.
> >   I had a very disconcerting conversation with someone in St. Louis about
> > our list possibly being "euthanized".  I can tell you that if such a
> thing
> > was to happen and harmonica players were no longer able to communicate
> with
> > each other in numbers, it would not bode well for future conventions.
> > Especially with harmonica clubs currently withering on the vine.  I don't
> > have any proof, but I truly believe our list has alot to do with SPAH
> > attendance numbers.
> >
> > Mick Zaklan
>