I really hate public speaking!!!

A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from one of the Asheboro Kiwanis club members asking me to speak at one of their meetings. Ughhh....I tried my best to weasel out - other meetings - vacation - whatever I could come up with. But, he was persistent! Finally, yesterday was the agreed date that I would bore the Kiwanis membership with details about the Asheboro Airport and Cardinal Air.

I jotted down a few notes in the morning for what I wanted to cover. It is amazing what you'll come up with when given free rein to talk about yourself!!

They served a nice dinner - then a pleasantly short business meeting.

These are some of the members - not during the speech, of course....I thought it might be rude to pick up the camera from the podium while I was speaking!! I don't see them in this photo, but there were two different high-school's Key Club members present also. Neat that the service organization is apparently still strong like it was long, long, long ago when I was in high school!


This is immediately after I finished and the meeting was adjoured. Several folks came up and asked further questions. It actually turned out quite nice and I only said a couple of "ummmm"s. I did hate that microphone, though. Gives you a strange sensation to hear your voice that split-second later than it comes out of your mouth!!


They gave me a very nice roller ball pen as a thank-you gift!