[SEL] British Engine show Rules / now waste of space

[Arnie Fero]

Hi Hugh,

Huh.  On this side of the pond the "engine stewards" are also volunteers
who like to enjoy the show.  However when some stroppy asshole needs to be
sorted out and shown the error of his ways, the old adage "there's
strength in numbers" enters the picture.  The engine steward would return
to "reason" with the bloke accompanied by a number of large engine
friends.  Somewhere there's a pic of Dolly with Leroy, Ted, and Rick Monk
that shows you that "size matters."

Even lacking engine stewards who have balls, the other engine folks who
needed a place to set up their display would soon fill in all that open
space.  If the goofball who was trying to hog all the open green space had
a problem with that he would either be told to piss off or take it to the
head of the show.

See ya,  Arnie

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Hugh Stannard wrote:

> These guys usually turn up before an engine steward arrives. They set up and
> take up all the room they like. The engine stewards are all volunteers, and
> they are there to enjoy the weekend not have confrontations with stroppy
> engine enthusiasts" who dig their heels in when told to move their excess
> stuff so 9 times out 10 the engine steward will not bother trying to get
> them to move. When the other engine folk arrive there is no room to put
> their camping equipment behind the engine so they squeeze in where there is
> a gap. The majority of the rallies over here have camping behind your engine