I had a very nice day. I tabled for Planned Parenthood at Joining Forces for Families' "Safety Day" in Sun Prairie. There were two other volunteers with me, and we got a table in the shade. The weather was sunny andthere was a pleasantly cool breeze, rather a nice change from earlier this week. The event included reps from various police and fire depts, an ambulance crew, McGruff the Crime Dog, and Dean's Crash Helmet. The Mt. Horeb K-9 unit and a UW Police Mountie impressed the kids and animal lovers. Medflight stopped in briefly, but left to return to a call. Face painting was a big hit with the kids. There was free food: grilled burgers and hotdogs, chips, brownies, rice crispy treats, soda, etc.
One thing that was interesting was watching how everyone dealt with the free condoms at our table. Many people took some, but everyone who did claimed that they were for someone else, or for a joke.Sometimes little kids wanted one, or wanted to know what they were. Generally, since their parents were right there, we let the parents field that question, so as not to step on any toes. The responce tended to be something along the lines of "those are for grown-ups, you don't need to know now."
I did leave the event with a full stomach, a new highway map of Wisconsin, a re-print of a cool 1959 Red Cross swimming safety poster that I remember from my cildhood, and a volunteer educator t-shirt. Not bad.
Since I was nearby, I headed over to my gym to spend a few hours in and around the pool, before returning my nose to the grindstone of unpacking.
