Just when you thought things were getting predictable… when meetings are all the same… agendas? boring! punctuality? loosen up! We’re here to relaaaax with Bert as our toastmaster. Strolling in right on Bert time, he picked up right where Wendy, our table topics master, left off. She was truly relaxed, knowing she wouldn’t have to answer one of her own table topics! Or would she? Nope, she wouldn’t.

But a whoooole lotta other people did. Lora, Corky, Amy, Maureen, AND Jason all strolled on up to talk about their good, bad, terrible, and much-needed vacations. Then, to make things even more unusual, Lora evaluated herself when she was general evaluator later in the meeting!! A bit harsh, but hilarious.

Both speakers were offbeat, too. Ania performed mouth-to-mouth for her self-proclaimed 3rd “jesus speech”, and Louis described his foot-in-mouth problem, whose only cure is to go to “your happy place”.

The highlight for me, though, was the moment when we realized the grammarian wasn’t there yet, and Maria, certainly no *flaneur*, pulled a Word of the Day, appropriate and already printed out, out of her purse!!! It was amazing, although I’m sure that Paul had an equally awesome word, but he just missed it by a minute.

WINNERS:

Best TableTopic: Amy “Plan It!” Samet
Best Speaker: Louis
Best Evaluator: Albert
Best Humor: Amy
Most Enthusiasm: Ania!!!