dianevill
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Last Saturday I had a lady book a show, and she wanted it for today (that's the shortest lead time I've ever had for a cooking show). Not much time to host coach, but she called all her guests and I sent the invitations on Monday morning. I mailed her the ingredients as she doesn't have a computer, and I called her yesterday for the final count (10) and asked if she received the list of ingredients from me. She confirmed and said that she would get them this morning (I was going to arrive at her house at 10 am). Well, when I left the house this morning, I just had this bad feeling that she didn't get the ingredients, so I swung by the local Pick and Save and picked them up and put them in my cooler.
When I got to her house I asked her where the ingredients were, and she had that look on her face that confirmed my bad feeling. She completely forgot ! She was ready to call her neighbor to have her run to the store (and we really would have been behind - I was making the garlic bites, taco ring and turtle fudge skillet cake and was going to bake the cake before the show and have the bites baking when the guests arrive). I had a huge smile on my face, went out to the car and brought in my cooler. I have never seen a more thankful lady. The show went well - she ended up with 8 guests ordering, but they ordered a lot - over $600, and 3 bookings (not bad considering a week ago I had nothing on the calendar!) They all promised they'd have the ingredients, though .
My reason for posting this, besides my announcement that I'm going to open my own psychic business (kidding), is I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else, and if so, what did you do when you got to your host's home and there were no ingredients? I've been selling PC for over 5 years and have never had anyone forget everything (almost always there's something wrong or missing, but never this). If her neighbor would have run to the store we would have been over two hours behind!
Diane
When I got to her house I asked her where the ingredients were, and she had that look on her face that confirmed my bad feeling. She completely forgot ! She was ready to call her neighbor to have her run to the store (and we really would have been behind - I was making the garlic bites, taco ring and turtle fudge skillet cake and was going to bake the cake before the show and have the bites baking when the guests arrive). I had a huge smile on my face, went out to the car and brought in my cooler. I have never seen a more thankful lady. The show went well - she ended up with 8 guests ordering, but they ordered a lot - over $600, and 3 bookings (not bad considering a week ago I had nothing on the calendar!) They all promised they'd have the ingredients, though .
My reason for posting this, besides my announcement that I'm going to open my own psychic business (kidding), is I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else, and if so, what did you do when you got to your host's home and there were no ingredients? I've been selling PC for over 5 years and have never had anyone forget everything (almost always there's something wrong or missing, but never this). If her neighbor would have run to the store we would have been over two hours behind!
Diane