Friday, September 23, 2005
Clayton Harvest Fest
Last Saturday, one of the things I did was went to the Clayton Harvest Festival. (Clayton is the name of the town I live in ... ) I was curious to see what it'd be like. I had talked to some people about meeting up at a certain booth for a vendor we all knew would be there (4042.com) but none of us knew exactly where they'd be.
I drove downtown ... a 'quick' drive (as quick as anything is in the country *grin*)from my house and parked a few blocks from Main Street. The Harvest Festival was on Main Street ... they had the whole street shut down. When I got to Main St., there were vendors as far as the eye could see. People everywhere. Most of the vendor booths seemed to be run by church organizations and groups (which I should have expected!).
I wandered around, looked at goods, talked to people about their services, got told to vote Republican, got told to vote Democratic, was given a sticker of a Confederate Flag by people who I wondered were members of the KKK ...
Found the booth where I was to meet up with people and hung out for the next hour, but noone else showed up. So I just talked to our Webmaster, and our Web-dudette, talked to strangers, and people-watched.
I think my favorite was a woman who was walking down the road from booth to booth selecting which items she wanted to look at. Everyone else, she was just shaking her head and saying "No, no, no, no, no, no..." She refused to be suckered in to talking to anyone about anything she wasnt interested in. She said she had it perfected in to an art form. You could tell she was a pro at it, by the time she'd gotten down to the 4042.com website booth. They were giving away a chance to win $100 dollars, just for hitting their website. Just needed to take home a flier with a ticket. She was already shaking her head and saying ".. no, no, no... " when she shook out of her hypnotic state and said, "Oh! Ok!" I laughed, and she explained that she was SO tired of being accosted ... I was impressed!!
I drove downtown ... a 'quick' drive (as quick as anything is in the country *grin*)from my house and parked a few blocks from Main Street. The Harvest Festival was on Main Street ... they had the whole street shut down. When I got to Main St., there were vendors as far as the eye could see. People everywhere. Most of the vendor booths seemed to be run by church organizations and groups (which I should have expected!).
I wandered around, looked at goods, talked to people about their services, got told to vote Republican, got told to vote Democratic, was given a sticker of a Confederate Flag by people who I wondered were members of the KKK ...
Found the booth where I was to meet up with people and hung out for the next hour, but noone else showed up. So I just talked to our Webmaster, and our Web-dudette, talked to strangers, and people-watched.
I think my favorite was a woman who was walking down the road from booth to booth selecting which items she wanted to look at. Everyone else, she was just shaking her head and saying "No, no, no, no, no, no..." She refused to be suckered in to talking to anyone about anything she wasnt interested in. She said she had it perfected in to an art form. You could tell she was a pro at it, by the time she'd gotten down to the 4042.com website booth. They were giving away a chance to win $100 dollars, just for hitting their website. Just needed to take home a flier with a ticket. She was already shaking her head and saying ".. no, no, no... " when she shook out of her hypnotic state and said, "Oh! Ok!" I laughed, and she explained that she was SO tired of being accosted ... I was impressed!!
# posted by Elims @ 8:38 AM 
