My Horrible First Fair Experience: A Story of Perseverance

[marionwilliams]

My first fair experience has been horrible. To start off, they put me in an alleyway and no one hardly came down it. So, I put my children to work and had them take flyers to the beginning of the alleyway and hand them out to people and tell them about the drawing for a free cooking show. Either no one was interested or they just didn't want to walk down the alley.

Then about noon a storm started to roll in and the wind just blew down the alley like a funnel. I bought a brand new gazbo/tent thing at a local store(not Walmart) paid quite abit for it and the wind just tore it up and twisted it all up. Called the hubby and he came over and tried to fix it enough to finish the day out and then it started to rain. I don't mean sprinkle rain, I mean heavy rain, can't see in front of you, luckly I had bought clear plastic containers with lids the day before and all my catalogs and other paper things were in the containers and didn't get wet.

I was so frustrated and upset that he packed me up and I sat in my lawn chair in the rain and cried. The lady in the tent beside me came over and gave me a candle, that was what she was selling homemade candles. She said, she felt so bad for me that she will call this week and book a catalog show.

That how my first fair booth went.

 

[lacychef]

In an alley? How strange! I'm sorry your first booth experience went badly, but hang in there! Did you get anyone signed up? If so then call them all to say they won a free cooking show...see what happens.

 

[marionwilliams]

There were 3 booths in the alley. Why, I don't know unless they had to many booths register this year and ran out of room. I only had 10 survey filled out and 8/10 mostly marked No.

 

[soonerchef]

I am soooo sorry, it's sounds like it was quite a disaster. I have always been inside when I do fairs...this way I know that people will come in because they want to get out of the heat.

Did you talk to anyone about getting part of your money back? I mean did they promise you something other than an alley?

 

[marionwilliams]

The only way they will refund is if the problem was on their end. When I register they didn't say where my booth would be just that it would be in a 3 block radius of the courthouse. After I left the woman who gave me the candle started having problems with the wind but she learned from me how to better fortify her tent.