Please enjoy this pictorial journal of what I did not do during the Wisconsin State Fair. For starters, I did not create this whole experience alone. I would like to thank my friend Tom Machaj for making this trip possible, being a good sport, and helping with the pictures and catchy slogans.
That said, all the opinions and innuendoes presented in this piece are mine and mine alone. I assure you that they not only do not represent the viewpoints of Tom, but in some cases they outright conflict with them. Thanks for being a good sport Tom!
Click to enlarge any of the pictures below.
#1 I did not eat the fair food
Swiss Mushroom Brat
half a chicken and potatoes
I must have been the only person out of the 900,000 people attending the Wisconsin State Fair to be on the Master Cleanse!
#2 I did not slide the pig.
World's Biggest Piggy Bank
#3 I did not join the army.
Sargent Goat
#4: I did not lose my cookies.
Two smiling faces
As enjoyable as it was to visit with the hogs, at one point I became overwhelmed by the smell and I had to get out of there. I explained to Tom that I wanted to leave the hog pavilion because of the SMELL. A friendly older gentleman bounded up to us and jubilantly declared “THE SMELL OF MONEY”! He explained that he was in the business for 60 years. ”Quite profitable indeed!” he declared. Nice enough man, but I am glad I am a vegetarian and I am glad that I left the pavilion before I threw up.
#5: I did not use the facilities.
#6: I did not drink milk.
Drink milk?
#7: I did not enter a beauty contest.
#8: I did not eat breakfast.
#9: I did not stand out.
#10: I did not use products made out of animals.
#11: I did not drink 35 gallons of water.
#12: I did not look the other way.
That is his wheelchair--his legs do not work.
Take a look at the Small Scale Animal Rescue that gave this little guy his wheelchair!
#13: I did not get judged.
#14: I did not accept the invitation to your hallucination.
"I respectfully decline the Invitation to join your Hallucination"--Dilbert
#15: I did not get a six-pack.
Only $18 for a 6-pack!
#16: I did not eat a cream puff.
Tom attacking the cream puff! Who wins?
#17: I did not follow the rules.
Sonya on Day 5 of the Master Cleanse at the Wisconsin State Fair
“Carry-Ins” are not allow at the fair. But what is a girl to do while on the Master Cleanse? Eat a cream puff??
#18: I did not dial 2-1-1.
#19: I did not play duck duck goose.
Department of Natural Resources Display
#20: I did not get trashed.
#21: I did not get trampled.
#22: I did not get arrested.
Sonya and her date at the Wisconsin State Fair. Invincible!
#23: I did not get flagged.
#24: I did not get converted.
Smile!
Christian literature, Gideon bibles and the “Good News” were abundantly available at the fair. Nevertheless, I left the fair with my own preferences intact.
#25: I did not get on stage.
I am working on my belly dancing technique. Maybe one day……
#26: I did not get tagged.
#27: I did not get stuck.
I really wanted to go on the Sky-glider but the combination of witnessing a malfunction with a ride earlier in the day, my gut feeling, and my desire to watch the belly dancing show made me pass on this. Good thing! The ride experienced a malfunction and about 160 people were stuck on the ride for more than two hours before they were rescued one by one by the fire department using a cherry-picker.
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When it comes to things that are against, you just have to weigh it against the punishment for breaking the rules. In Philadelphia it is against the law to jaywalk. The punishent for it is nothing at all so everyone does it right in front of the police.
Also sometimes a rule is to protect them legally. So if you would have choked to death on the lemon, youir heirs could not sue the state fair people.