You Want Us To Do What?

Allow me to share with you what my boss and I officially classify as "one of the stupidest things we've ever done."

As my boss and I are working the initial stages of an arena setup for a large charity dinner/concert tomorrow night (Children's Cancer Fund), I get a phone call from my co-worker. "Hey, A and B are over at the Pavillion, and they want to know if we can put some small lights, like music stand lights or something, in to some Port-a-Pots they have set up for some event tonight."

I'm already dumbfounded at this point. But my boss shrugs resignedly, and we go over. After a five minute conversation, where we try to point out the absurdity of the situation (starting with how little light those music stand lights put off, how we'd have a cord going in to each one and is that even "code compliant," and that there's a pretty decent amount of ambient light from the Pavillion and the street lights.

We were over ridden, but we did come up with something better than the music light stands.

Ten minutes later, I was standing on the forks of a forklift, attaching a parcan (a type of light) to a tree branch.

That's right. I put a light in a tree. To illuminate portable bathrooms.

I'm still shaking my head about it. I wish I had taken a picture. I have to go to work tomorrow, and if my coworker didn't take it down yet, I'll take a picture then. But even still, I'm not sure even a photograph can capture the sheer absurdity of a production lighting fixture attached to a tree branch, focused on two spotapots.