Imagine trying to assemble poles that Ringling Bros. passed on because making the elephants carry them would have surpassed even their standards of animal cruelty, THEN finding the canvas loops to stick the poles through, THEN getting all them connected across the top of the massive canvas rectangle… THEN somehow raising the entire structure up to its full 9-foot height, using the same physics employed when lifting yourself off the ground by your shoestrings, and dad running around driving stakes into the hard dirt while mom and the kids screamed about how we can’t hold the poles up any longer. Imagine the fun of this exercise on a July afternoon with temps in the low 100s and humidity a click above that.
