dannyzmom
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Last night I had the stressor of all stressor shows.
It was a las minute booking. A gal who had attended a shwo fo mine back in April called me 2 weeks ago and said she would like to book a show and co-host it with her sister. I had a late-in-the-game cancellation date open so she took it. She confirms the date then calls to tell me her sister is having a PL show that same day so she's going to have PL at 4pm and PC at 7pm. I explain to her how people come to parties with a mental budget and if they do PL first she'll have low PC sales...maybe we should do them a few days/weeks apart. She insists this'll be fine and she insists that several people coming to the PC show will not have been at the PL show etc. OK
Well, what she neglects to tell me is that the people who were at PL and are staying for PC have been drinking all afternoon and are at the point of sloppy. She gives me an area to set up (when I arrived PL was still there, all set up and taking orders) so I start settign up. Within 10 minutes one of the kids si diggin his hands into my bowl of chocolates and then his mother, in trying to stop him, dumps her glass of red wine all over my display. Oh, but it gets better, next, someone spills a sippycup full of MILK into my briefcase (where, of course, my laptop is sitting) and instead of apologizing as I scramble to dry out my freakin' laptop she is rolling her eyes at me and says "With all due respect, computers don't belong in the kitchen." I wanted to SCREAM!!!!!! Where else would she have suggested I go, huh?? PL was spread out everywhere and the hostess shoved me into the kictchen!!! I was LIVID and that just set the tone for the rest of my show...
Thankfully the sales were just over $500, but I got no bookings, my show sucked because I was so fritzed, UGH.
I just keep telling myself, I could have been home all night making NO money so at least I made a few bucks.
So far my laptop is ok. I had a new recruit there with me (lovely for her to see the show from hell) and between the 2 of us and our 2 MF towels we were able to dry it up rather quickly.
It was a las minute booking. A gal who had attended a shwo fo mine back in April called me 2 weeks ago and said she would like to book a show and co-host it with her sister. I had a late-in-the-game cancellation date open so she took it. She confirms the date then calls to tell me her sister is having a PL show that same day so she's going to have PL at 4pm and PC at 7pm. I explain to her how people come to parties with a mental budget and if they do PL first she'll have low PC sales...maybe we should do them a few days/weeks apart. She insists this'll be fine and she insists that several people coming to the PC show will not have been at the PL show etc. OK
Well, what she neglects to tell me is that the people who were at PL and are staying for PC have been drinking all afternoon and are at the point of sloppy. She gives me an area to set up (when I arrived PL was still there, all set up and taking orders) so I start settign up. Within 10 minutes one of the kids si diggin his hands into my bowl of chocolates and then his mother, in trying to stop him, dumps her glass of red wine all over my display. Oh, but it gets better, next, someone spills a sippycup full of MILK into my briefcase (where, of course, my laptop is sitting) and instead of apologizing as I scramble to dry out my freakin' laptop she is rolling her eyes at me and says "With all due respect, computers don't belong in the kitchen." I wanted to SCREAM!!!!!! Where else would she have suggested I go, huh?? PL was spread out everywhere and the hostess shoved me into the kictchen!!! I was LIVID and that just set the tone for the rest of my show...
Thankfully the sales were just over $500, but I got no bookings, my show sucked because I was so fritzed, UGH.
I just keep telling myself, I could have been home all night making NO money so at least I made a few bucks.
So far my laptop is ok. I had a new recruit there with me (lovely for her to see the show from hell) and between the 2 of us and our 2 MF towels we were able to dry it up rather quickly.
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