Auction win brings salt

Cleo Kilpatrick |

Rodriguez’s favorite memory at Blake was the opening night of “Twelfth Night” musical.

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If Rodriguez could solve any world problem, it would be climate change.

Rodriguez’s last meal would be a double cheeseburger plain with bacon.

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“We were in... Paris, for a few days and I stayed with my aunt and cousin who lived in a cottage in the rural area. There were roosters at the cottage who would caw at 6 a.m., which was really funny.”

Truman Morsman ’23 bought 12,000 salt shakers for no reason. He bet money on these vintage salt shakers from Northwest Air line which was bought by Delta in 2008. Morsman explains, “I found a re ally good deal where I could get a pal let’s worth for $2 and I took that deal. For $2 I got 12,000 salt shakers, which I am storing underneath my porch and in various points around the school.” The reason Morsman bought them is because they were cheap and he thought it would be funny for their senior prank. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to be used in the senior prank because this year seniors had to receive approval for any prank ideas and administration didn’t want to approve the salt shakers for the prank. However, Morsman has been able to use the salt shakers in other funny instances like, Morsman says, “I have been using them for negative reinforcement, where whenever my friends do something I don’t want them to, I give them a salt shaker. At first it was a positive reinforcement thing, but then they stopped wanting them.” Morsman continues, “I am doing a take it or double it and give it to the next person and today I officially got up to 4,000 [salt shakers] from [Anne] Stavney who then wanted me to go for [Joe] Ruggiero.”

Unfortunately, Morsman was outbid for the pepper shakers. He says, “There were three items, two were salt shaker pallets and one was a pepper shaker pallet and I got outbid on the pepper shaker pallet.”

Morsman continues, “They were significantly more, someone spent like 60 bucks on them. Which is a big step up from two

[bucks].” Overall Morsman is satisfied with his purchase of 12,000 mini salt shakers because it’s led to good laughs and jokes with his friends and people around the school.