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Maggie's Meanderings
"I have a project in the works, and I'm going to need six volunteers from the membership to do the work involved in making the project a success," said The Yup. "Now that I'm president of the Spent Shaft Archery Club, I think it's time this club did more than provide a place for the members to hide from their wives and shoot their bows. That's the reason we need to do this project. Now, who wants to volunteer to help me?"
The meeting shed got so quiet I could hear a spider walking across the dirt floor. Nobody said a word or made eye contact with The Yup. If there was one thing the members of the Spent Shaft Archery Club knew how to accomplish, it was getting out of work. The condition of the club was a testament to that. After five minutes of complete silence, during which time I wondered how many more minutes it would take the members to impeach him, The Yup said, "Maybe I should explain exactly what this project is and then ask for the volunteers I need to help me with it. I should have realized when I mentioned the word "work" there would be no response on your part. Actually, this project will require very little physical labor and will give those members who volunteer to do it a chance to show off their archery skills and bowhunting knowledge in front of a lot of kids. What I intend to do is set up an archery booth at the sports show next weekend. I've already contacted the convention center and cleared it with them. We'll take some youth bows and let all the kids who are there with their parents shoot the bows for free under our supervision. It will create a lot of positive publicity for our club and bowhunting in general. It might even get us some new members who actually know how to mow grass or do some of the ten thousand other things that need to be done around here. Now, once again, I'm asking who wants to work? I mean, who wants to show off their archery skills by showing a bunch of kids how much fun shooting...