Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> I had to work today 7-4 to accommodate all of those who woke up this morning
> and said, 'Damn, I got a day off to celebrate something, can't remember
> what, but who the hell cares anyway (I told you I deal with ignorant people)
> I might as well have a cookout and get drunk. After realizing they needed
> food, came to me, the purveyor of the lowly clam.
>
> To those of you who listened patiently to my clam rant on the chat the other
> night.....THEY ARE ALL GONE!
>
> I got continuous deliveries of clams last week for pick up this weekend. I
> started with 3000 lbs. of clams, no display table, and a lot of agita
> (spelled right?). Saturday morning, the manager finally put up the display
> table and we started filling 50 count bags. For the uninitiated, there are
> approximately 400 clams per 25 pound shipping crate. I received somewhere
> around 120 crates or 48,000 clams equalling to 960 bags. I broke down and
> put the LAST one aside to bring home myself (hey, I gotta have some perks)
> which I bought when I got off work. By 2p.m. they were all GONE. Had a few
> people come in and want me to go get them some 'fresh ones' off the
> boat.......well, duh. It is late afternoon on a holiday, so let me go out
> and send a clam digger out to pull up say 50 to 100 just for you ........
> Oh, and by the way, happy frigging Memorial Day, for telling me how your
> lack of planning became my fault. It's you that these
> soldiers/sailors/flyboys/marines gave their lives for so you have the
> freedoms to say that.
> -Ginny


when we run out of clam we just go to Clam Gulch and get more...if in
season geoducks, razors and bottle necks are my favorites

Grizzman