An announcement of many thanks, and a note of regret.
Many thanks for those 100 cars full of wonderful patrons last Saturday night, it was a blast! The responsible way you all replied correctly to gain attendance, and almost EVERY reply actually arrived! It may have been 100%, but sometimes something gets lost in the “shuffle.”
Of all the special events so far, this one had to have topped them all as I never saw a bunch of happier people in my life!
Stu Megaw had a big surprise (Party) for his ½ century mark, and our own Marty Kircher OUTDID himself, providing door prizes worth a small fortune, some of them autographed by producers and directors, and well, I just cannot say enough about this genuine promotional minded one of kind guy!
The ONLY regret is that someone named KATIE decided to carve her name once again, on the women’s toilet partitions in 2 places in 2 different stalls, and as any of the women attending know, we were in the process of painting and renewing the partitions.
“Katie” has been doing this often and for a very long time.
We work so hard to maintain this theatre, where a lot of you may be laughing at this, whoever this Katie is, we have over 20 pictures of her attempts at doing this over the last year, it is one of the reasons we had endeavored to upgrade these partitions, and make them look nice.
Almost EVERY time she carves, she also carves a heart around the name, so there is no mistake, this pain is also someone who thinks she is a special patron of the Bengies.
Please understand me, I work too hard to put up with this kind of “reward” so ladies be warned. The way I stopped the destruction in the men’s room was with a permanent camera encased with plastic, aimed at the door to record who enters.
Now we will need to do the same in theladies room, all because we have one idiot who thinks this is cute when all it does is degrade my house, and I am not putting up with it. We can do much better with our time and expense for you all than continually covering graffiti marks left by an ignorant patron. (this was a weekly thing last season, as fast as we covered it up it would be there AGAIN… and I am not doing it anymore!)
So, I will now spend money for this ridiculous need to install a new camera, slow speed video recorder, and have to monitor the ladies room, all so we can find out who we really do not want coming to the Bengies anymore.
Believe me, when I finally nail this Katie, she will be paying one huge bill, and I most certainly do have the evidence for reimbursement. If no one figured it out, our best friend here is a digital camera that we use to record all vandalism before we repair damaged and vandalized property, and Katie, or her parents are going to have one heck of a bill.
