The CA2Q Wingnut award is given to some lucky member each month at the regularly scheduled meeting. Nominations are made by any attending chapter member at the price of $1 each and is voted on by the membership to select the winner. Nominations are based on something any member has done that is embarrassingly awkward or is uncommonly meritorious. The winning chapter member must keep the award on their person until the next scheduled meeting. If a another member asks the award winner if they have the award, they must produce the award from their person or owe the treasury exactly one dollar. If the award winner shows the award, the member asking the question must pay the treasury two dollars. The award recipient must return the Wingnut to the next scheduled meeting or pay the treasury ten dollars for every month the award is not returned.

This month, Linda Sciacqua gets to wear a brand new Wingnut. Since each of the Jarumays were wearing our two existing Wingnuts, they made up a new Wingnut for this special occasion. The Jarumays needed to finish their terms as current bearers of this prestigious award while they were at the Colorado District Rally.

The gory details: Bill Johnson (from CA2K), and his Grandson Phillip, attended our August meeting.  Bill nominated Linda Sciacqua for ratting him out at the last Synchronized Soaking event.  Seems she saw that he hadn't gotten wet yet, and yelled "Dry Man Walking!" which lead to him getting totally soaked.
Linda fired back with a nomination for Bill.  How could he stay dry amidst all the firing!!??  Then Edie nominated John for forgetting the chapter sign-in sheet, even though he was reminded several times!   The clap-meter went over the top in favor of Linda S. as the recipient!

Former 2008 Winners

For July, we had two winners for the same event. It seems Alan got up in the middle of the night and took a pain reliever. Alan did not turn on the light because he knew where his medicine was. It turns out that he should have turned on the light because he was taking their dog's medicine. Shirley joins Alan in accepting the award because she was the one that moved the medicine from where it was normally kept (according to Alan). The Jarumay's debate during the Gathering sealed their fate.

For June, our very own Chapter Educator, Steve Foster, takes away the Wingnut. Steve won the Wingnut for heading to Mimi's for breakfast and also being so focused on the electronic issues with his bike that he failed to notice that one of his tires was so worn (22000 miles on it) and he had to be told by a friend. The Jacque had to search around to find a tire prior to the trip to Shasta.

For May, Bob Hole celebrates his 24th Wingnut award win. Tom Jefferies thought little payback was in order when he nominated Bob this month for not checking in with Tom to see if he had the Wingnut with him all month. It was Bob who nominated Tom last month in order to peak revenue. Bob fired back with a couple of nominations toward Tom but the end result was that CA2Q members thought Bob deserved it more.

For April, Tom Jefferies takes away the prize. It seems that as the nomination request went out during the monthly
gathering for this month's recipient, Tom made the statement that a good rebuttal statement would be that the Wingnut
nominee should say that he or she defers to the person who has a much better chance of making money for the
chapter. With that, Bob Hole nominated Tom because of his increased chance of making money for the chapter.
Everyone agreed. Good job, Tom.

For March, Pat McComas gets the Wingnut. The story this month goes back a full month to our February after-gathering-ride. Pat both planned and led our ride to Old Town in Sacramento. But as he approached the bridge over the Sacramento River, Pat led the pack every which way except over the bridge (three times). Each time we ended up going around several blocks and coming back to the same spot. When we finally did cross the bridge and approached the Old Town area, Pat led us into the city's parking garage with a big sign at the entrance: "No Motorcycle Parking". We all followed Pat into the garage. All of us had a great time. Thanks, Pat.

For February, Alan Jarumay get the Wingnut. The story this month is a two-parter: Tom Jefferies, along with Mark Radtke (via proxy), nominated Alan for what they claimed was misdirection big-time while aboard the USS Hornet on the last month's meeting ride. This caused Tom and Mark to miss our group's lunch at the Everett & Jones Barbeque Restaurant. Tom didn't give very much time for anyone else to be nominated before calling for a vote. Without competition, Alan was the easy winner.
But WAIT, the story is not over - see below

The rest of the story: On Sunday February 17th, one day after CA2Q's meeting, nine CA2Q members (including Mark) rode or drove to Sacramento to join in on CAC's chapter meeting as part of the Ride of Fame game. During the Wing Nut nominations, Shirley Jarumay stood up and explained how her husband, Alan, was so badly picked-on and abused at yesterday's CA2Q meeting. Shirley nominated both Tom Jefferies and Mark Radtke for failing to understand all the previous emails and announcements regarding where lunch was to be held. After several add-ons and rebuttals, Mark was elected as the winner of this month's CAC Wing Nut. Tom escaped this honor only because only one Wing Nut was available. Now, according to both sides, there is a lot more to this story. But one thing is certain: "Payback's a Bitch".