Could This Have Been Any Harder?

After a long hard day at work, I braved Louisville's first big heat wave and went over to the VFW to help get things ready for the Ladies Auxiliary Easter egg hunt and party tomorrow.  A few other ladies and I put together 108 Easter baskets for the kids.  No, that is not a typo; we made 108 Easter baskets, and we made them in record time, I might add.  (I'm beginning to think that the Ladies Auxiliary let me join just for my organizational skills.)  After the baskets were finished, we started on the second phase of the project: dying 15 dozen eggs.  Nope, not a typo, either.  We had 180 eggs to not only dye, but we had to boil them first. 

Let me preface by saying the ladies there tonight are sweet, kind, and caring women.  But they must have left their common sense at home. After what seemed like an eternity for the eggs to boil, the woman in charge of the egg dying went out to the canteen area and got one of the big strapping young men to come back to the kitchen and lift the huge kettle off of the stove and pour the water out in the sink.  Not an easy task, even for the big strapping guy.  But nobody got scalded, so so far, so good.  Then things fell apart.  The lady in charge got 3 smaller pots, filled them with water and put them on the stove to boil more water to use for the egg dying.  Keep in mind that not two minutes earlier, they poured out gallons of boiling water that could have been used to make the egg dye.  Now they would have to wait for more water to boil.   

At this point, two other Auxiliary members and I looked at each other and we just left.  There were already 7 people huddled around the stove and counter top, so we figured there was enough help already.  We tried to tell them earlier to just use the hot water from where they boiled the eggs, but nobody listened to our suggestions.  The Commander's wife (who will be running for Ladies Auxiliary President in a few weeks) called me a few minutes ago, and said that it had been 2 hours since we left there, and they were still dying the eggs in the smaller pots.  Good luck.  I hope they have them done by the time the Easter egg hunt starts tomorrow.