The Great Aluminum Can Tab Round Up
PERVY PET
OF THE MONTH
Submitted by Bridget Lindsay
This month’s pervy pet is Layla. She loves walks around town
at any time of day or night and meeting new friends daily. She
has not one mean bone in her body. She is full of energy, but
is always ready to relax and snuggle under the covers. Layla
does not like being left alone at night and she does not like
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thunderstorms.
Layla
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By Alaina Loughridge
Last month we held a contest to guess how many aluminum tabs were held in an old
Party Mix container. Little did I know what I had just gotten myself into! First of all, a shout
out to Brantley and the ‘hood’ for providing the tabs. Bless your beer drinking hearts and
the pandemic! Seriously, y’all should buy stock in PBR. A second shout out to Crosby for
suggesting the idea, and then a third shout out to whomever is going to help me get rid
of Crosby’s body.
The Beachcomber takes all of her contests very seriously. Alaina does not fudge the
numbers or allow staff to enter and Alaina does the dirty work on it. I’m a firm believer
in karma and there’s no cheating whether the prize is a $25 gift certificate or a million
dollars. After 10 pages of notes, literally 10 pages of legal pad paper pages of notes, it was
time to count the tabs. (On a total separate side note, y’all southern ladies need to shorten
your names. I think I have carpal tunnel now from writing four different hyphenated names
– but I believe in being thorough.)
So, I gathered a brave crew together with enticements of vodka and bad behavior.
Minnesota, Justin and Crosby all answered the call. Between the four of us (thank God,
those boys can do math), we got all of those tabs hand counted within three hours. I am
flat out delighted to announce that the grand total of tabs was 7,395, which means our
winner of the contest is Heather Malick Clift who guessed 7,432!!! Missed exact by 37!!!
Great job, girl!!! You win a gift certificate for lunch or dinner at A-J’s Dockside!!!!
Thank you to everyone who participated! We will be donating the tabs to the Veterans
Administration, as well as to the Ronald McDonald House. If you have tabs of your own,
let me know and we will get them from you. They really do help those in need with
dialysis, shelter, food and more. To those beer drinkers, soda drinkers and all aluminum
tab drinkers, save your tab and help a life. Thank you!!