I got there a little late and they were done picking out the ping-pong balls. So, one of the guys there says "No problem, we'll just act like we're pulling ping-pong balls out of this bucket." It just happened to be the same guy who's running for Sheriff. So I played along, took the staged photo of him smiling at me while reaching into a bucket, then quickly threw the images away.
After that, it was down the bayou to find anything to do with commercial fishing. I hit up a shrimp packing plant in Dulac. The nice secretary served me a piece of German Chocolate Cake while waiting for "bossman" to come back from the doctors office. Once he got back, he gave me a tour of their facility. It smelled REALLY bad in there.
While there, I got a call about a trailer fire. Turned out not to be much, but one of my firemen buddies was there so I had a nice chat with him. It smelled like burnt stuff out there.
From there, I went to a Budweiser distributing warehouse and took some shots of a dude loading cases of beer onto a forklift. It smelled like a Sunday morning Frat house in there.
From there, I went to a Pro/Am golf tournament. There's a minor league type golf tournament in Houma this week. The dude who won it two years ago has been making some noise on the PGA tour this year.
I hooked up with a foursome and followed them for the back nine. After the 3rd hole I smelled like a mix of shrimp, fire, beer and sweat. It was nasty hot outside today.
When I got back to the office and started to comb through all my photos from today, I thought this photo kind of fit well. And it's kind of funny too.
