Wednesday, 13 April 2005

Hope College Grounds Staff, Physical Plant fail to rub off the Major General Music

While the campus of Hope College isn't as loaded with water cannon batteries as Grand Valley State University's, there are other dangers to consider.

The biggest threat is cars. That's right, cars. "Cars?" you ask. Yes, cars. People drive cars and delivery trucks and everything else on campus.

The Major General Music was happily walking on his way to class on Tuesday, singing to himself as he crossed the former 12th Street without a care in the world. As he neared Nykerk Hall, he found danger ahead. The landscaping crew was coming for him! Someone has sent two hitmen disguised as groundskeepers to assassinate the Major General Music in their golf cart with no top, a key force in the music department as an emissary to the Student Congress! Thinking quickly, the Major General Music sidestepped the golf cart and the frustrated groundskeepers roared off around the south end, forced into waiting another day to kill the loud tenor, pianist, and politician!

Thinking his security was likely not compromised and seeing this as simply an isolated incident, the Major General Music later attempted to return to his headquarters in CODENAME=WYCKOFF_HALL. But alas, there is a campus van now parked right in the way on the walkway with no way around except an oddly-shaped mound next to the ugly blue sorority house. With great effort, the Major General Music navigated the treacherous hill and avoided the cobalt Greek female house.

Later when exiting, the Major General Music was leaving his headquarters and walking back to the Land of Music, he once again found the evil van, now even closer to the headquarters, trying to barracade him in. "Ha!" thought the musician, "I shall go around the other side of the van and be so clever!" But wait! the Major General Music only found bushes on the other side and with more great effort forced his way through them, attracting the attention of the amused sunbathing college students looking on at him. With that, the Major General Music simply threw his head high with the look that said, "Of COURSE I wanted to walk through the hedges, I do EVERYTHING on purpose!"

Later the Major General Music discovered the cargo van gone and decided to enter the headquarters through the secret south entrance and in running from another campus minivan, was nearly blown away in the windtunnel beaneath his headquarters and the neighboring building o' theology.

Comments(5)

An excellent story. Quite up to 'par.' We have the crazy golf-carts prowling all around here at GVSU too. At all times of the years. Sometimes they give forewarning by blasting a radio but not usually.

and as a fun side note; I get to drive golf-carts during the summer. We have two or three golf-carts at the resort which are very fun to race and hijack. I should tell you the tale of the Fudgecicle Escapades. It is one of the more exciting 'Garf' stories.

chickenlittle27

How is that for gratitude. We both wrote and posted fantastic blogs and merited zilch on the commentary. How frustrating. It is horrible to know that there are people out there reading our about our fun and exciting lives with out the reciprocal payment of mutal postings and/or commentary.

chickenlittle27

Wheeeeeee, double comments on my blog-I win!!!! Yay for me!!!!

Major_General_Music

I don't know if that counts if it is only me that comments.

chickenlittle27

But I could comment on consectutive occasions as a moral support and an effort to boost the ratings. I am may have to go on another call to arms if all these people keep reading and not commenting. Really it only takes a second more to post after reading.

chickenlittle27