OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS
                      AND MEMORABLE MOMENTS
               
 

I have browsed through many of my reviews and have come up with some of the most outrageous, hilarious and memorable moments we have encountered over the years.  Hope you enjoy.  More to come.

 

Casa de Fruta A&C Fair, Hollister, CA  April 11-12, 2009.  A Mexican couple came over to our booth and they asked the price of one of our knives.  "Ten Dollars," said my wife.  The guy looked at my wife.  "How about seven dollars?" he asked.  My wife then said "No way, Jose."  The guy was surprised and his wife suddenly gave him a weird look.  "How did you know my name?" he said.  "I don't know" my wife said as the wife appeared to be very upset.

 

IS THAT TWO BUCKS?  Whiskey Flat Days, Kernville, CA  Feb 15-18, 2008

As I sat toward the back of our booth a 10-year old boy stepped over and lifted up one of our $20.00 Harley Blankets and held it up over his head to show me.  'Is this two bucks?' he asked ne.  'No', I said…..that's twenty dollars.  He quickly put it back down.  Next he stepped over to our $2 spider monkeys.  'Are these two dollars', he asked me.  No, I responded bluntly 'twenty dollars'  The kid then gave me a very confused look.  I then told him that it was only two dollars.

 

 

MICHAEL JACKSON.  Jefferson County Fair, Madras, OR  Jul 22-25.  A bunch of teenage girls came into the booth and saw one of our MJ shirts.  We have 6 left.  She asked the price and my wife told her 'ten dollars.'  The girl then asks "Can I have it for five."  Would you believe that my wife told the girl 'You've got to beat it."    The other girls laughed.  "Hey that's one of Michael Jackson's songs."  Hilarious.  Priceless.

 

 

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.  "No, but you had better Ketch-Up with her." Didn't get it.

 

 

FOOD.  Foster City Art and Wine Festival. Show, May 30-31, 2009  Went to buy some Kettle Korn and they had a sign 'Nickel Bag  $6.00.'  I asked the lady why is a nickel bag selling for $6.00.  "Inflation," she said.  "Deflation for me," I responded.

 

 

EMBARRASSING.  (Casa de Fruta) A lady picked up one of my flying, screaming monkeys and was wondering how it worked.  I was hoping to sell one of them for $6 to her little girl.  I placed my two fingers into the pockets and pulled back on the legs (like a slingshot) and I let go.  The right hand of it flew off to the right, while the rest of it went toward her.  She laughed.  "So, that's how they work?" she said.  I looked at her.  "Yes, that's the way they work....but not quite like that."

BAD NEIGHBORS. Castro Valley Fall Festival, Castro Valley, CA  Sept 13-14, 2009
 Unfortunately for us, we have some very bad neighbors...the Pallen Karate School.  They had a 10x10 space, but extended their activities outside their booth, halfways across the aisle.  They were constantly in front of my booth blocking off customers from entering my booth.  I spoke to them many times, but they would just say 'Oh I'm Sorry' and go on their way.  Soon after, they would be in front of my booth again.  Other vendors were aggravated by their activities and they were admonished by the show's promoters many times.  This morning, one of them brought his dog over and had it sit down direclty in front of my booth, scaring off customers.  I thought that in Martial Arts, you teach people self control, etc.  That's a crock of baloney.  These are very rude people and don't care about anybody else.


OUTRAGEOUS.  Central Valley Pizza Festival, Lemoore, CA  Apr 20-21, 2008
There were loads of kids skateboarding up and down the street in front of the booths, behind the booths, around the booths...  all over the #($*#$ place.  Nobody tried to stop them as they were quite a nuisance.
BAD NEIGHBOR AWARD.  Ceres Street Fair, Ceres, CA  May 2-3, 2009.
goes to this Chiropractic booth next door.  They were constantly doing business out in the middle of the aisle and blocking traffic as people had to skirt around them.  You know I walked around the show and observed a number of people passing out literature in the middle of the aisle and I observed a lot of people who get completely turned off by this.  During the afternoon, they actually had a couple chairs in my open space alongside my canopy.  Earlier in the day I saw one of them place a can of soda on the curb beside the back of their booth.   I saw a lady trip over the can and it rolled over into my booth.  They did not pick it up.  They could care less.  I stepped over and pushed the two chairs back into their space and walked over and kicked the can about ten feet into their space.  Two of them just stood there watching me.  I didn't say anything.  Do you see that lady standing out in front of her booth and the people are avoiding her by going around.  This kind of crap hurts our sales.

 

 
A TIGHT SPACE.  Big Hat Days, Clovis, CA  Apr 5-6, 2008

 One year I arrived there a little later because of dense fog on Highway 99 and I found my space.   These spaces were 10x10 right down to the inch and many vendors had expanded their 'territory' by a couple inches and I found that my space had dwindled down to about 5 feet across.  Wow.  I was shocked and was going to try to get a different space.  However, a couple of the other vendors came forward and they had the other vendors move their canopies closer to one another and before long, I had my 10x10 space AND IT WAS TIGHT!!!  

 

 

HORRIBLE.  Daly City Filipino Festival, Daly City, CA.  June 28-29 A few minutes later, one of the lady's in charge of the event just happened to be passing by and I told her what just happened with the canopies and what it did to my beautiful display. She said that she saw what happened when she was standing down on the other end. I told her that these canopies are unsafe and I was going to remove all my things tonight and not come back on Sunday. I asked for a refund for one day and replied extremely bluntly, "NO, YOU ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND.' I just shook my head. "This is not my fault, your canopies here are dangerous. They are not properly secured" She told me that the men were going to come tonight and secure the canopies better. Hell, they should have done it correctly in the first place. So, we do not return on Sunday....

 

 

THE STORE.  4th of July Festival, Mount Shasta City, CA  July 2-4.  After closing up at 6:00, we stopped by a grocery store in Mount Shasta to pick up some more drinks.  I looked for some lemonade (ready-made from the frig area) and couldn't locate any.  I asked one of the employees where the lemonade was located they had about 50 brands of Orange Juice.  Really!  You think I'm kidding about that?  Had to be at least 50 different OJ's in there.  Anyhow,  He said that they had none and he was hoping that the truck would bring some tomorrow.  I looked at him.  "I'm not waiting until tomorrow."  This ain't one of those things where you are waiting in line for days to get tickets for a great event  or pick up a new game machine.  Can you imagine 200 people standing in line at 5:00AM waiting for the place to open so they can get some lemonade.  Only two per customer please.  Oh man. I gotta go to the bathroom, can you hold my spot for me?  Hey dude, back of the line, I've been here since yesterday morning.  So we paid for our things and decided to drop by the smaller grocery store in Weed. All they had was the 'Paul Newman' lemonade, so I picked up a couple containers.  Got back to the motel, got some ice and drank away.  It was good and refreshing.  It has it's own special 'twang' to it.   I guess that I had gotten a little dehydrated.