“Pet Peeves” Meeting Recap – 05/20/09 » Capital City Toastmasters

People who tailgate. People who add to task lists that are already too long. People who fail to show respect for elders. Puppies that pee when they get excited to see you. Bad wheels on shopping carts. The members of Capital City Toastmasters are not lacking in pet peeves. It was fun digging into them though, wasn’t it? Great job as Toastmaster, Amy.

Rey did her share of venting through her table topic questions. She asked Allison to describe a lack of respect for elders experience. Allison described growing up with her sister who had a tendancy to challenge authority. Rey asked Brendan for his thoughts on the texting of youth, but Brendan wanted to talk about his 11 year old badass alley cat and the abuse that cat takes at the hands of the fluffy new kitten Brendan brought home. Rey asked Louis to describe some blast from the past he’d like to bring back, and Louis managed to offend half the group by saying that he doesn’t recall the days of vinyl records. Finally, Rey called on Carlos (and gave him a gratuitous hug that made the rest of the girls jealous) to describe his pet peeve. He described a few: people who don’t play basketball critiquing basketball, women commentators, and repetitive post game questions.

Then we had three fun speeches. Brad described hypothetical fanatical Astro loving behavior (and, according to Maureen, should have given us a better view of his tatoo). Lee told of chasing George W. during the Capital 10K and delivering his fastest ever 10K. Eric lamented owning a cat and vented his frustration with people who parade around their dogs and judge him. Another pet peeve – new and long absent Toastmasters who get up there and make delivering an awesome speech look so stinkin’ easy. Great job guys.

Susana, Maureen, Lora and Stuart evaluated. Maureen reminded Brad to bring a manual when delivering a manual speech and also encouraged him to show more…props. (Others would second her sentiment.) Lora praised Lee’s awesome use of language: the obstacle course that was the human race, snipers taking out runners, running like he stole something. Finally, Stuart raved on about Eric’s speech. Clearly we all though Eric was on today.

Ribbons were awarded as follows: