What a fun and crazy day that was wasn’t it?! Good to see old friends and make new ones today. Message of the day was about community and good to see @rizzzoooooo back in the camp.
Here’s my not so quick run down of what I saw and who I talked to there:
We start the day with a location address for 1:30pm, doors open and we are ushered in and given name tags. The lady (Mary) who was giving us name tags was very up beat and happy to present us in. My nag tag had a number 3 marked in the lower corner, relevance unknown. Second to greet was Addison. She wasn’t too talkative and was definitely not trying to hold conversation. She gave me a yellow rose and I proceeded in. I meet the photographer lady (name unknown) and paused for her as she was taking photos of everyone coming in the door. After the photo, I see in the room various OOA posters hung up on the wall, books on the tables, coffee, and donuts!! I also notice quite a few in this room that are people clearly associated withe OOA. We got the cello player, which in interaction with her, she said she was only entertainment and continued staring into nothing. There was the security guard in the back of the room sitting, which was also the same security guard I saw when I came out of the 4/30 event. Good to see him again as well. I asked him at the end of the event if I could have a poster, he said probably not. Maybe next time..
The photographer lady I tried to speak to a couple of times, but she avoided my handshakes and kept moving. There was ?Eddie? (I asked him his name after the joke), the smooth joke telling gentleman haha. He pulled me aside and told me this joke about Pastor Fuzz and him banging a girl on Lover’s Lane, eventually getting caught by the fuzz. He ended the joke and asked me if I got it…did anyone get this off beat joke?? hahaha
I admit I was kinda scared to talk to the other OOA members, especially Addison. I finally said fuck it and went to go ask her if she was indeed the same Addison that has been answering the phone calls for the OOA? I was told from her that she couldn’t tell me that. I apologized and said thank you if it was because I’ve talked to her quite a few times on the phone, would’ve been nice to put a face with a name. All of sudden at this, she pulls me to the side and asks me a question. She asks me to think abut and look at those people around me, to see their reactions and their emotions of when I tell people about what happens here today. To ask myself that when they make me feel like maybe I’m the crazy one, to ask maybe if they aren’t the crazy ones. At that I ask her if that is what happened to her and then she took out her sharpie and crossed out my name. HAHA I literally cried out “Ah fuck, what did I do?!” At that, ?Eddy? came up and pulled me to the side and asked me to leave her alone. I also attempted to talk to the scarf wearing older gentleman, he did happen to notice my x on my name tag and asked me if Addison did happen to ask me a question. I mentioned she did and he instructed me to go and tell 3 members of our community secrets nobody has ever heard before, and that he would have an answer for me next time I returned. HAHA thanks @kasch @monkeymuffin333 and Ben! I did that and then he was gone haha. When he came back, he started the proceedings on stage for us.
After that is was nice speeches from both the OOA and our Scribe about community, which was very relevant, considering the amount of people that came out today. We had the cello girl get up and play some darker weirder music, she rocked it by the way. We had @Rizzoooooo brought in front of us hooded and then stripped of his ego and shell. The group majority voted for him to be given a second chance and he was allowed to sit down with us and continue on with the proceedings.
The height of the event reached a big turning point in where Addison and the rest of the OOA came out in these orange robes and told us that Addison would now aerobe in front of us for her sins that she has committed. At that, yelling behind us and coming from a different room is ?Addison’s dad? He comes bursting out yelling at us and the OOA, telling us he’s taking his daughter back home. Ol’ boy gets tackled and put thru a wall by the security guard, and thrown outside into the back. We are apologized to by the OOA older gentleman, and that a relocation will be coming soon, that they will be in touch.
At that we were are left there wondering what the hell just happened and what went down. We looked around the room and tried to gather any info that we could to learn more from the OOA. A lady with the OOA that I had seen previously had come back in and handed @kasch a phone. He took off and we all wondered where and why…
@thegilded was very quiet after all of this and didn’t speak the rest of the night. Some people I heard actually saw the mysterious and lovely @gatekeeper4, were asked to put on some kinda helmet. A whole lot happened and although more questions still pose than questions answered, we did receive many answers today and one that was built upon our community. Glory Be!
_Michael Gray.
