Last Friday when we were having dinner out with friends discussion turned to the “Good Ol’ Days” of the MMC, say back about 9 or 10 years ago. We reminisced on old events and past members. One event that we did 2 years in a row and was deemed fun in the haze of foggy memories was a photo scavenger hunt. I had borrowed the idea from an Australian Miata Club and Americanized it. The Folks were divided into teams, given a disposable camera and tasks to complete of various levels that were worth points. Quest #3 in the first year was:
A picture of a Miata owner (and his/her car) that is not in the Miata Club:
100 points for a picture of them in their car.
Bonus 250 points if you get them to join the Club.
An additional bonus 500 points if you get them to join in the hunt and come to lunch with you.
One team managed just that feat. I kind of suspect that it really didn’t take too much to get Scott Rushton to be the 850 point man as his boss, the Sales Manager of the local Mercedes/Mazda dealer, was a member of the Green Team that brought him in. Scott sold me the Emperor and we lost touch a few years later when both he and his boss found themselves out of the car business when the dealership dropped the Mazda product line.
Donna and I have never clicked physically with the local Geocaching group, but we signed up in the beginning to their YahooGroups email list and still belong. Occasionally for what ever internal reason someone rubs someone else the wrong way starting a flame war with sides being taken. But it is mostly filled with congratulatory missives once anyone passes any kind find milestone that ends in two zeros (from hundreds to thousands.) The Saturday morning after that dinner I was reading the email digest of the previous day’s email when I spot a familiar looking email address, lowdollar99@xxxxx.com. Could it be who I’m thinking it is? So I scope out the user name on Geocaching.com and sure enough, it is Scott Rushton. How come I never noticed that before?
The day after he comes up in conversation about Miatas, I notice he is into geocaching too. Cue the Twilight Zone music.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 621