Glasseye's Trip to Chico October 6-8, 2000 (part 3)

Sib and I headed back to the contest and watched some of the freestyles from the BC booth. I took out my Bearing King and started topping again. Jason Tracy trash talked my top and said I should try a "real" top. So he hooked me up with one of the BC wooden fixed tops. When I threw a boomerang, the top started freaking out on me like it was possessed and started burning a hole into my hand. I quickly stopped the top from breaking the skin. Jason took the top to show it to Steve Brown over at the Duncan Booth. The next time I saw both of them, they had been given the marks of the Stigmata on there hands. Hmmm, scary stuff. If you ever see Jason around, ask him to show you Stigmata. Trust me, you won't want to miss out on this extraordinary paranormal experience. I hesistantly took the Stigmata top back and slipped it into my backpack.

After that, we hung out with the Maniacal Dr. Mo and the man with a hole in his skull... Craig! I'll leave that story for another time. Speaking about stories, Dr. Mo is one cool cat. Not only is he lethal with a lathe, but the man plenty of stories to tell about anything and everything... and I do mean EVERYTHING. In short, forget about Bo (oops too late! already forgotten)... MO KNOWS.

Things started winding down as everybody started packing up. All the winners were announced, the tents were torn down, and it was time to move on over to the Dinner Banquet. Finding the banquet was kinda weird. "Go down this street till ya can't go no more. Turn left and go down till ya see the firestation on the right and turn left." The only thing that was missing was, "If ya see the broken white gate or the blue truck with a missing tire, you've gone too far." We had our $15 preorder tickets so we got in quick, grabbed a couple chairs, and proceeded to eat. Now I could describe how the food was in one word, but I'll let you use your imagination. I will say, however, that it was lacking a few things... taste and texture come to mind. At least the company was good. I got to meet Mike from Duncan. He's a really cool guy that I kept bugging to sell the bearing king tips separately. He actually seemed like he might push for it. Sweeeeet!

The night before, Eric told us this cool story about the banquet hall. He said that in the men's bathroom they have a big circular urinal right in the center. He thought it was kinda weird how there were all these urinals on the walls and then there was still this big one in the middle. He told us how he thought it would be pretty weird for a group of guys to stand around in a circle facing each other doing there thing, but he thought, "Hey, if that's the way they do it up here, then it's fine with him." So Eric got to thinking that he'd try it out, ya know, to get the whole "Chico Experience" thing. So he did his business and now it was time to wash his hands. But how odd! He couldn't find a sink. And that's when it hit him...