A Year in MINIons- MINIon #0241

So how does this work?  I started this out as a way to plan MINI Takes The States in 2012.  A simple little group to help us plan and organize… I think there were maybe eight of us, a dozen tops. as we met people on our various journeys they were added.  As people were added in 2011 and 2012 before MTTS I sent out a quick message to everyone asking for their number.  In some cases I’d have a quick chat with new people to get a feeling as to what they would like… in most cases this worked perfectly, other times not so much.

MINIon #0241 was one of those where the process went “sproing!” So after chatting I had designed a nice hockey playing MINIon with missing teeth it was great!  Then I heard them on the radio, and I knew I had done something wrong.  You see we each have our own call signs on the radio – “Blue Leader,” “Red 5,” “Mad Monkey,” “Janet,” “Thumbs,” you get the idea.  So I’m driving and I hear “Landshark” reporting in.  I do a double take, reliving all those Saturday Night Live sketches I grew up with, and realize I had made a mistake.  When I bailed out in Lubbock, I got home and the first thing I did was redraw #0241.