raw moms checking in again- we crossed off two more squares: skinny dippin' in lake menadota (sp??- somewhere in madison, wi!) and trading posters for things, but those things aren't very exciting/interesting- just food, but almost weed!
in other news, our sales were flailing miserably as we were barely breaking $600 by 2 pm and we are scheduled at this school for 5 days!- well on day number 3 of just breaking $1000 for the prior sales, we were at our wits end, contemplating ways to make anything more worth our while. in a rare moment of having more than 4 people at the sale, i thought to myself, we haven't used the RHCP pandora station since our first sale- i wonder if these broboys would feel more at home and inclined to purchase posters if horrible pop-rock was playing. so off i went to adjust the music bc we really had only been playing our personal music from the get-go. as the first chords of californication pumped through the speakers, it was like a chain reaction- a phenomenon i would never had believed had i not seen it with my own eyes. heads turned simultaneously in the direction of the speakers, there were nods in acknowledgement, feet tapped to the drum, lips began mouthing the words, heads bobbed and before we knew it, our sale was filled to the brim- a line 8, maybe 9 people long formed to check out- it was a RHCP miracle. people were throwing us thumbs up in appreciation of the music, compliments were flying left and right - the best worst interaction:
kid - "is this your music?"
me - "no, pandora"
kid - "aww man i LOVE pandora! but seriously, this music is totally legit"
me - ::sigh::
this may be a bit presumptuous, but we're thinking we may have unlocked the secret to poster tour. we plan to recreate our experiment today to see what the results yield. so naturally, we loled @ the post below us. other teams should try it and see if the response can't be duplicated! however, we're not optimistic about today because it is pouring rain outside and naturally, we are not in a prime location so people have no real reason to trek out to the building we're in. but, let's count our blessings, because alas, at least we're not in an outdoor location.
to help pass the time in slower sales and for our own entertainment purposes, we started playing games in the vein of super troopers (which we should have a poster for), like how many times can i say the word 'turtle' instead of 'total' or pronouncing w's instead of r's - like :"oh, you're looking for a pawamore poster?"...ah well.
keep the stories alive because we love to commiserate and laugh!
- raw moms
ps- has anyone perpetually gotten the question "how do you hang these on a wall?" REALLY?! i guess it's a good segue into "...we got this great poster tack right hurr"
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