Saturday
April 17th, 2004

Will Straw explains to son Chandler that "bouncing a handball
really is work...remember that when you're talking to your mom."

The day began at the appointed hour, 9:00 am, as workers flocked to the job site. They came from as near as Green Township and from as far as Miami University and Kentucky.

Chief Executive Officer George "MoneyBags" Lehocky was on hand to oversee this exercise in worker exploitation. But without his strong arm man, Bob "Boss" Burkitt, and his gang of enforcement thugs, Lehocky couldn't command the workers.

The workers took matters into their own hands, as Will Straw talked his two young sons into sweeping out the courts by bribing them with Mountain Dew. (Actually, this was the ONLY work done that day.)

Once the courts were swept, the workers tired of waiting for Burkitt, and voted that the best way to get the courts ready for play would be to actually play on them.

So the games commenced, and were in full swing by 10:00 am, when Burkitt finally did arrive on the scene in his silver, chauffer-driven limousine. But by then, the work day couldn't be salvaged.

Bob Hiance bows to Mike Reilly, self-proclaimed "project manager"
who supervised "work" from the park bench

Jason Headings and Kevin Albertson
"clean" Court 3

Brett Polson and Dave Laxton
cleaning Court 2

Mike Reilly, Jim Krailler, Bob Hiance and Will Straw
cleaning Court 3

Bob Hiance, leaving the courts, asks
"Anybody got a smoke?"

The day proved to be a "power to the people" victory for the workers, and they declared it the "Best 3-Wall Work Day" ever.

And "the man" -- Burkitt and Lehocky -- slinked away in defeat, each carrying a leaf-blower. Foiled by a simple mis-communication about the actual starting time of the work day.

Bob Burkitt shows off his extra long hose

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Last update - April 26, 2004