Besides, members of the media are confined to one small pen that’s across the street from the Bill and Adair Grommesh family’s future home in Moorhead. I doubted if any walls or beams were going to fall on us over there. Maybe the head protection was meant to shield us from dangling participles.
In retrospect, it seems ridiculous that I had to wear any hard hat because it seemed like the type of pretend, cheap New era jordan hats plastic hat you’d give a 3-year-old when he visited a construction site.
There’s a whole headgear caste system, which determines the amount of access you’re allowed or denied. Volunteers wear white. Builders wear orange. Inspectors wear yellow. And members of the media wear blue.
Turns out I didn’t need to do any of those things. At an “Extreme Makeover” building site, it’s all about the hard hats.
Or perhaps I could follow that old bit of journalistic advice: wholesale New era jordan hatsSport a clipboard and a little attitude, and you can get in anywhere.
Perhaps I could wrap myself as a roll of insulation and be trucked into the middle of the building site. Maybe I could pretend to be Mrs. Ty Pennington. (Upon hearing this one, my husband snorted and said: “You’d have better luck pretending to be his mother.”)
When my editor suggested I try to gocheap New era winter hats “behind the scenes” to capture the circus behind ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” I wasn’t sure how to do that.
I should have brought a clipboard.