This was my review on meetup.com of the "Easter Eggstravaganza!" event we attended on Saturday, which was advertised as having 1/4-million easter eggs.

"Wow. Overcrowded, poorly organized, with ridiculously unmarked and unsupervised parking. I suppose I should have expected it from a free event, but the lines for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING were amusement-park long with very little in the way of satisfactory payoff. The toddler egg hunts were fine, but the older kid ones were essentially rude, sanctioned stampedes where children and adults trampled each other mercilessly. Maybe my standards are too high, but I saw very little in the way of polite or charitable behavior from anyone of any age, including the organizers and volunteers."

Here's where I think they went wrong: brand-new bicycles as raffle prizes.  And the raffles were free!  Sorry, but if you need a mountain bike as a bribe in order to spread the Word, you're doing something wrong.

Just took the Grim for his second walk of the evening.  True to form, he pooped on the lawn of one of the five churches that are located within a 2-block radius of our house.

If the casino plan had gone through, it would have been built literally across the street from our house.  At least two of the churches would have been bulldozed.  Although an Atheist, I don't hate religion, but I do happen to think that would have been a fair trade.

Even if it meant the Grim had fewer places to poop.



I'm sure the guy on the next block over who owns his own construction company would have taken up the slack.  His truck, which bears the company name, website and logo in big, bold colors, also sports the phrase "JESUS LIVES" in large lettering.  The services his company provides are listed on the side, with the Ichthus fish serving as bullet-point icons.

Perhaps I'll have him build us a tiny church for the Grim's backyard doghouse.

He may not see the humor in that.