The show was awful.

[valis2]

Horrible. No good. Very bad.

Normally I do not schedule more than one at a time, unless I've been to the store before. But the owner wanted to schedule two. The last one wasn't good, but I had already committed to the next one, so I felt I had to do it.

It was a trunk show, which means I was set up within a store with a few of my tables. Normally I show up to a store in the morning, set up, and sit all day, waiting on customers.

Well, this store, the owner doesn't like getting up early, so I have to get there the night before and set up. And because they have some sort of customer get-together every Friday night, they don't close until 10 pm, so I have to set up just before they close, because I can't leave the merchandise unsupervised. So I show up and set up (45 minutes driving round trip).

Next morning I get there.

Most of the very few sales I made came from store employees. I mostly sat around and wrote lists about the things I need to do.

And, of course, fielded plenty of inane questions from the few customers that wandered into the store.

One actual conversation between customer and employee:

"Do you have [item]?"
"Yes, we do."
"Do you have smaller [item]?"
"Yes, we have micro-[item]."
"Are they smaller?"

I met a woman who was an atmospheric chemist, but she didn't linger long enough to have an interesting conversation.

I sat and lingered in Severus daydreams, thinking, I postponed GoF for this?

It was a total waste of time. In fact, I think I only just barely broke even. I wish that I could have done some writing, but I didn't want to appear too out of it. I don't think most people mind a little list making, but actively becoming absorbed in pages of scribbling...heh.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Heh...saw it that evening (http://www.livejournal.com/users/valis2/142918.html)...but you're right, I really hated sitting around there, when I could have just as easily sat around here. *laughs*