Up the creek without our paddles......

We determined it was time. Our auction paddles, ordered about 7 years ago, had seen better days. While they still of course worked, their numbers had dwindled. It would be nice, even for a small auction, to get new paddles with the hopes that people wouldn’t take them home of trash them as they had in the past.

An auction paddle always makes it seem more official when you bid. You have a real number and an official paddle to stretch in the air. It encourages one to bid, or at least entitles you to do it.
Ours were on their way out and I took the time to look up the supplier, the Kiefer Company in Fergus Falls, MN. This time we decided to go with special printing to include our logo on the paddle itself, and we ordered 200 new ones.

When they were delivered I remembered they were put in my office in a large box, and because they were in the way, someone moved them into storage. I showed them to our Business Manager and we were both pleased. That is, pleased until last week because we couldn’t find them!

Both of us were sure someone, not us, had put them away.

Several staff members, including me, went through the building, in every possible closet and box, trying to find our new paddles, to no avail. Finally, in desperation, and since no one but the two of us had seen them, I called Minnesota and asked the company when they had been delivered. After a brief period of computer shuffling, the answer came; they had shipped them three days before our call! They had not yet been delivered!

I know that our Business Manager and I had seen the “proofs” of the paddle on line in order to approve the printing, but we were just so sure………