Doughnut Day Follow-up

Thinking that the actual event coverage might make a nice follow-up to the first Doughnut Day piece, Aaron and I went to Randy's Doughnuts eager for the fete's promised highlights: lassies in vintage uniforms, red kettles, a marching band (maybe), and a jumbo check. But when we arrived at around 9:30, nobody was there.

I asked the lady at the window, "Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of celebration here...? With Salvation Army ladies in vintage uniforms?"
"Yes," she said. "They were here earlier. But they left because of the rain."

There had been rain at 7 a.m., when the event was supposed to start, but it had cleared completely by 8 a.m., and by 9:30 the sky was beautifully blue. They had called off festivities for the day celebrating the Salvation Army's interminable altruism during 34 days of rain in WWI France because of a Los Angeles drizzle? We left chuckling over the irony.


Blue skies and empty lines at Randy's Doughnuts.