team raw moms checking in for the first time. first i would like to thank beyond the wall for allowing us to train with another team for one entire day before departing on our own for a pretty decent sized sale. we're in our last day of this 5 day sale, consistently coming in a grand below our projections. woop woop.
we've had the opportunity to cross off several bingo boxes over these past weeks:
- met and sold to identical twins on our first day (one was gothix and the other became upset bc she thought i got fingerprints on her 'dave' photo, which she then decided should be framed to prevent any further damage)
- we've had several people buy posters of the shirts they are wearing (mostly beatles and p-floyd)
- buying a whole series -- a chick bought all of the corpse bride matted prints we had in stock (this same girl was extremely disappointed that we didn't have a 'kat von d' poster)
- our super 8 is extremely luxurious and has an indoor swimming pool, where we swam with a sick hillbilly who inevitably had a sick mullet (double points !! because it was for real, not ironic) he also had an enormous beer gut and flame images on his bathing suit
- SO many out of place californians - apparently dudebros from the upper midwest love wavy bleached blonde hair and long boards
- a frat boy bought and framed snuggles the monkey - he said he couldn't wait to hang it over his bed because it was so cute
- i had some girl ask me if i thought the swimming elephant poster would look good in her bathroom and another girl asked my partner if it would be creepy and uncomfortable if she put marilyn lifting weights in her bedroom (what?)
other than that, we are surprised to report that we have had to turn kids away from student helping because too many people show up and want to help. these free poster offers really wet people's willies. we do have one MVP student helper who we feel is worthy of note- his name is martin and he shows up either at 7:55 am to help unload or 6:40 pm to help pack up. he insists on taking no more than 2 free posters a day and does not like it when any other helpers show up because he likes to take care of everything on his own. sometimes he arrives to the sale before we do and shakes his head at us because he know we're late bc we stopped to get coffee. one evening we asked him if he would like a coffee in the morning (thinking it would be a nice gesture) he curtly replied 'no', explaining that coffee has caffeine and caffeine makes you crash and he can't afford to crash.
we found the most perfect college kid pandora radio station --> red hot chili peppers! it plays all the hits. every time we think we can't take it anymore and are about to change the station, we see another 3 customers singing along and then we get complimented on our tunes. guhh.
last night we made a punkrock gin bucket with the super 8 ice bucket, mountain dew, and $8 gin. we're paying for that today.
sorry for the lack of war stories but apparently things are going relatively smoothly for team raw moms. KNOCK ON WOOD.
keep on keepin' on fellow poster tourians!
-RM
ps- JUST THIS SECOND an outta place californian shot me the hang loose hand sign. oh life!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the amazing description of your beloved student helper. We also have a SH that has shown up EVERY day, and because we forgot to ask him his name on the first day, we are now calling him Martin. (Not to his face). He logs all of his hours into a notebook and has used them to buy every Star Wars poster we offer. Though he is a very ambitious fellow with an iron clad work ethic, he has taken to criticizing me when he thinks that I am over stuffing the books, and he keeps hounding us to "call into corporate" to see if we could get him a picture frame for his last few hours. Though we don't really have any intention to call into BTW for Martin's picture frame needs, we keep torturing him with a "they'll probably get back to us today", just so he'll show up again to put in more hours. It looks like we really have lost all of our integrity (though to be fair, we never had too much to begin with).
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