[tcb] Re: OK OK The Kupkake Chronicles
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:22:39 -0800 (PST)
OK,OK I thought it was something like that. I too had issues with the
entrance people last year. I was informed it would cost $25 to enter the show
but that I couldn't be in the show. Only parked in a god-for-saken back forty
lot further from the show than the spectators parking lot. I was told that to
enter the "regular" show you had to pre-register. If you hadn't pre-registered
you could only "compete" in a peoples choice award, again, about 1/2 a mile
from the regular show. No where did I ever see in their advertisements or
brochures that you had to pre-register to be in the show. Same thing this year
for their advertisements. Not on the web nor in their ad in Hot VWs does it
mention that you have to pre-register. I tried to explain that I had driven
over a 1.000 miles to be there but to no avail. They would not let me in the
show-show. The gate people basically were a bunch of south ends of horses
going north. I could have easily let the minor confrontation
turn into a major one, but chose to try to be nice and paid my $25 and parked
in the south forty. Simply toured the swap and the vendors and left about
12:00 vowing never to return to their ^%$%$#%*&(^& show. The organization of
this show literally stinks and how they attract all of the vendors and show
people I'll never know.
The reason that I was so curious as to what happened with the RED HAIR
LIPSTICK was that I knew that the gate people were about as friendly and
knowledgeable as the average clerk in Wal-Mart and could easily see how a riot
could break out.
Denis is right: Kip's party and the BB show and cruise make the trip
worthwhile; but I wouldn't drive around the block to go to the show and give
these people one nickel of my money.
Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, here is more trip report with the ejection tale as told to me by
the Kupkake and Christie ( they may have embellished and there are some
unexplained holes here and there ).
Sunday was the "go to the Bug Jam and get the hell out of Florida day". Chuck
and I went back to the site of Kip's party and retrieved the trailer with my
truck, then went and put Murray on. We then retrieved Jan and took her to the
airport. It looked funny dropping someone off at the airport with a VW bus on a
trailer, but nobody even looked at us. Jan flew home and we went to the Pasco
County Fairgrounds in Dade City for the Bug Jam.
Right away we had problems because the parking people took our $2 and pretty
much insisted that we had to park in the aisles with all the other cars. Well,
we really didn't want to do that because we were, what, 40 feet long? We
explained that we needed lots of room to turn and soon figured that, if the
person we were talking to couldn't understand this, we would just drive away
and discuss it with the next person in an orange vest. Eventually, I saw
another parked truck and trailer rig and insisted that I would park next to it,
out on the edge of the lot. With people grumbling we did just that.
As we were walking to the entrance, we heard Kim the Kupkake and Christie
calling to us in the parking lot. They were in chairs with drinks, looking
something like the Howells from Gilligan's Island. And with lots of arm waving
and indignation, they told this story, or something like this story;
Chad and Kim arrived in the KONG bus with Terry and Christie in their bus. It
was 9:30 and registration was closing at 10. They were told that it was full.
And they were told that it was too late. the Kupkake explained that it was 9:30
and that they had traveled 1100 plus miles and great hardship to get here, and
they wanted to register and get in. NO. They had to pay the $2 and park with
the ordinary spectators. They did so and went in to explain that they wanted
their busses in the show. At the entrance they were again told that they were
too late and the show was full and all the show people had radios and were
broadcasting not to let these troublemakers register. Then they were told that
they had to pay their $5 each to get in at all.
This is the problem in the nutshell. They were not allowed to enter their
busses into the show because the show was full. FALSE. It is a friggin'
Fairgrounds. There was lots of room. They were told that they were too late.
FALSE. All 4 will testify that they were there at 9:30 and that 10:00 came as
they were trying to get in. No consideration was given to the fact that they
had traveled over 1100 miles to be at this show.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Terry and Chad had walked away and were checking out the swap
by now.
Back to the escalation. As they were arguing with the people at the entrance,
one of the show women said that if they kept arguing that she "would get
somebody over here you will REALLY be mean to you". Wave a red cape, why don't
you. Of course, this was seen as a threat, and soon a man came in a golf cart.
He started pointing and shaking his finger at the Kupkake and, more or less
accused her of lying to him about being there at 9:30. "YOU WERE NOT!" Kupkake
had begun video taping all this by now and claims to have him shouting and
shaking his finger. I have seen a still pic, and there he is. I have demanded
that this be put on Youtube immediately, and I think that it is in the works.
Now, somehow Christie and Kim had become separated and were having
confrontations at two different locations and, at some point, the show people
had demanded that Christie leave. She said that she was not going without her
friend. They come back with,
"ARE YOU TAKING ABOUT THE REDHEAD WITH THE LIPSTICK?"
There was, apparently, no other woman in the hundreds of people inside, who
had red hair AND LIPSTICK!
At some point Christie displayed an obscene finger gesture we all know and
love, and now the real fireworks began. State Troopers were summoned, and, even
though the troopers actually were sympathetic, Christie and the KupKake were
forcibly ejected to their parking lot exile. We were asked not to reveal to the
show people that they were in the lot, as they were sure they would be attacked
again.
Steve and Sharon, apparently, had some trouble as well. Something about they
were too early and they had to have a friend inside come to the gate instead of
the show people simply believing that they were invited.
Overall, of the whole 4 or 5 day weekend, the Bug Jam is the weakest event.
The "cruise" at the Sonic was way more fun than the Bug Jam. Kip and Brian's
Bash is the high point, and the Bulli Brigade and cruise was great fun. The Bug
Jam has good vendors and a great swap area (more than an acre, I'd say), and
there are loads of cars there, but I just have no affection for it. Other than
the swap, I could miss it.
I got a sway bar kit with two bars, front and rear, with four small boxes of
hardware with instructions. the seller said that it was new old stock and was
sold as an add-on. I don't know about all that, but I have been looking at
putting on a sway bar (I didn't even know there was a rear one). I got it all
for $100, and think I did all right, if it all fits.
I say a new old stock T-handle for a rear cargo hatch, with keys for $200 and
a VDO clock, for a Ghia dash, I believe, and it broke my all time experience
for overpriced swap at $650.
Next up: Do we go two days out of our way to pick up the broken Coke Bus
from the Mississippi/Louisiana border, even though it lost the coin toss?
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