Flush Fest 2003!

Who would have known that Flush Fest 2003 here at American Standard would have been a little different than your standard company picnic?

Many of you know that I am currently employed at American Standard, one of the biggest companies today in bath and kitchen products.
Well here is my story.  I had been told that on Friday, September 12 we would be introducing our new toilet, "the Champion", which
American Standard is trying to push as "America's Best Flushing Toilet." So on that breezy Friday, as I entered the
menagerie known as Flush Fest 2003, sights and sounds all around me told me that this would not be any ordinary company picnic. Yes there were hamburgers and hotdogs, yes there were employees, but what... what are these other things??



A truck bearing a sign reading "Enter Curious, Exit Amazed!" led me to my first adventure. Inside were different technological breakthroughs throughout the ages: from the phonograph and the
Morse code thingy all the way to the laptop and cell phone, and then of course.... the Champion Toilet. A man was inside demonstrating how this toilet could flush two pounds worth of Spongebob Water Wigglers
down without a problem. Needless to say, I was amazed.



Outside there were various games, also not your standard stuff. An accuracy plunger toss, a toilet seat toss onto a plunger handle, a toilet paper roll toss through a hoop, and a golf putt through a maze of plungers. The prizes? Golf balls, and hats bearing the slogan "Proud To Be Plunger Free". (Most of us were wearing a shirt bearing the same slogan, I've already had several offers from people to buy it!)



Then the climax to a successful Flush Fest 2003... TOILET CART RACING!!! I couldn't believe it either, but they had build little electric carts in the shape of toilets to race around a track. These things were AMAZING! So much fun, so much competition. I crushed everybody.
Ahhh... the joys of FLUSH FEST 2003!!!