ALLIGATOR ANDY.  Family of 3 comes over to the booth.  The 8-year old boy picks up one of our wooden alligators and begins to look at it.  The father then says "You've got ice cream instead" and then continues walking.  I was typing on the computer and told him "You don't want ice cream.  You eat it and it's gone.  You can get the alligator and you'll have it forever."  I put my head down and suddenly my wife begins to laugh as the boy walks away.  "What are you laughing about?" I asked her.  "  My wife then told me that the boy was holding an ice cream cone and placed it down on the table and LICKED  the wooden alligator.  Holy shit.  She was still laughing ten minutes later.  What is wrong with these people?  Something in the water?  PEOPLE, PLEASE DO NOT LICK THE ALLIGATOR.

GUY COMES OVER TO OUR BOOTH WITH A LITTLE 3-yr OLD.  Boy picks up the snake.  The father looks at one of our camo shoulder bags.  I told him it's ten dollars.  "If you buy the bag, I'll give him a free snake."   Didn't buy.  He asked his wife.  Wife said "No, uh uh.  You don't need that."  Father told the boy 'You don't need the snake."  I looked over at my wife.  Told her "I don't need this."  Wife said "We need money."  I said "uh ohhhh."

 

BELIEVE IT OR NOT BUT A 12-YEAR OLD GIRL COMES INTO OUR BOOTH  and asks "Have you seen a lady wearing a Super-Heinz T-shirt."  I look up at her.  I just couldn't resist.  "No, but you had better Ketch-Up with her." Didn't get it.  Over her head.  Blond.

 

Cell Phone Stella.

There was a middle aged lady in Tyson Wells that came into our booth with a cell phone sticking in her right ear.  She walked through our two booths and continued talking. In one end and out the other.  Didn’t even bother looking at our merchandise. It’s like we weren’t event there. She’s in another world.  Invisible. She had the 'speaker' on and we could hear the other person talking quite loudly.  Believe me, it was not an interesting conversation.  It wasn’t hot; it wasn’t juice...more or less, .just kind of babbling…..  Louise did this...Helen did that and so on..Blah. Blah. Blah.

 Well anyway, she continued walking around the booth, not even glancing at our stuff, but she just kept on talking and walking with the phone in her ear....once, twice, three times...... still babbling on the phone. It was hilarious as she was subconsciously doing it.  She just kept on going around in circles in our booth. It was crazy. In on one side, through the booth and out the other side. Walked around, entered again, etc.  Finally after 3 or 4 laps, she finally left and walked down the aisle still talking, still babbling. I could still hear her and her friend from 20 feet away.  I certainly hope that she does not use her cell phone while driving or even crossing the street. Addicted!

My Name is Jose.

During Easter weekend, we had a Mexican couple came over to our booth at Casa de Fruta in Hollister and he asked for the price of one of our knives that we happened to be selling.  "Ten Dollars," said my wife to him.  The guy looked at my wife.  "How about seven dollars?" he asked.  My wife then replied "No way, Jose."  The guy stepped back.  He was surprised while his wife suddenly gave him a weird look.  "How did you know my name?" he said.  "I don't know" my wife said to him as the wife appeared to be very upset. Nothing further was said. The angry couple walked away arguing in Spanish with one another as she suspected that the guy actually knew my wife.  Too bad I had stepped away to the bathroom for a few minutes or else I could have really played along.  Absolutely hilarious.  My wife told me that the lady looked like she wanted to kill him.  Very jealous but she still didn’t understand that my wife had nothing to do with her husband.

The tale of the KILLER KIELBASA

We were doing the Deschutes County Fair over in Redmond and it was time to find something to eat.  I  decided to walk around and find some food and had to fight through hordes of people.  They were all crowded around the food booths and certainly were not hanging out near the vendor’s. From what I understand attendance was down this year.  Apparently they expected 230,000.  There was no way they had close to that.  We had very poor crowd flow where we were located.  Seems like everybody congregated in the carnival and food areas.

We were at the Tillamook County Fair in Oregon and tried to get electricity from an outlet which was 20 feet away from the booth. You need power at night for lights because these County Fair’s run pretty late at night and there’s no way you can operate in the dark. You need to see. It wasn’t working, so we called an electrician.  He came over and after 45 minutes of doing this and that, we had power. Wonderful.  When we returned the next day, we had no power again and we checked the circuit boxes, etc. and we had no juice.  My neighbors, who happened to be selling BBQ grills, asked me what we should do.  I looked over at them and pointed to the religious booth that was located on the other side of their’s (God Save's) and told  them "Talk to Him." He glanced over there and we all began laughing. "I don't want to.....he's giving us rain on Friday," was his response.