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Saturday at Dark O'Clock
Oct. 14th, 2012 09:35 pmYesterday I was up at Dark O'clock because the radio station that I listen to was hosting a People's Flea to help raise money for the Susquehanna Service Dogs.
It went from 6am to noon but we went there at 5am to set up. There was some less than impressive organization. The woman told me to pull aside and she'd find a spot and then I sat there for fifteen-twenty minutes. Same with the roomie. She was told to drive around but then the woman never met up with her. We finally found a spot that we just gave ourselves. The woman didn't even come over to talk with us. So other than that kerfluffle, it went pretty okay.
I had several boxes of books (bodice rippers) that I had in storage and I just wanted to get out from there so I could clean things out. Some people looked and one woman came buy to buy ten (the thicker novels I had 5 for a dollar, the slender Harlequin type were 10 for a dollar) and I thought I would have to drag them all back and just stick them up on Freecycle and give them away when a guy came over and looked around. He had asked how much and I gave him the price or for the bigger boxes, five bucks. Pretty good deal either way.
He offered 15 for all of them and since I wasn't eager to take them back, sold! Apparently both his fiancee and mother are very rapid readers so that would give them something to work on. Good for them. I'm glad that they would go to someone who would enjoy them.
I went over and bought some cute doggie pens (will have to post pictures tomorrow) and a scratch pad for a dollar and they had one of the dogs there, a black lab that was so cute.
There were a bunch of people who had their dogs with. A pair of lovely looking German Shephards, a very pretty 'mutt' who was a mix of spaniel and something else. A pair of red corgis that the roomie took hers over to talk with, a fun size puppy that I wanted to steal, a pretty Weimer and Bulldog that were VERY well behaved and the guy who had them said he had five dogs total all the same size. Those two of the ones who were better behaved and he liked to get them out to socialize. There was someone else who had a bulldog that was very cute. What wasn't so cute was one of the other people who were selling things who had small terriers or whatever. They had their tables by the road and was letting one of the dogs run around without a leash. That was stupid. Freaking people need to keep their dogs on a leash, especially with other dogs around. One of them was sniffing at the mutt before snapping and the poor dog jumped a mile in the sky before trying to get away from the little ankle biter. And the woman was just like 'No, bad.' Uh, whatever lady. If your little dogs can't behave in public/around other dogs, then they shouldn't be out.
Overall, it was a good day and $1100 was raised, at least that's what we heard around 11:30.
It went from 6am to noon but we went there at 5am to set up. There was some less than impressive organization. The woman told me to pull aside and she'd find a spot and then I sat there for fifteen-twenty minutes. Same with the roomie. She was told to drive around but then the woman never met up with her. We finally found a spot that we just gave ourselves. The woman didn't even come over to talk with us. So other than that kerfluffle, it went pretty okay.
I had several boxes of books (bodice rippers) that I had in storage and I just wanted to get out from there so I could clean things out. Some people looked and one woman came buy to buy ten (the thicker novels I had 5 for a dollar, the slender Harlequin type were 10 for a dollar) and I thought I would have to drag them all back and just stick them up on Freecycle and give them away when a guy came over and looked around. He had asked how much and I gave him the price or for the bigger boxes, five bucks. Pretty good deal either way.
He offered 15 for all of them and since I wasn't eager to take them back, sold! Apparently both his fiancee and mother are very rapid readers so that would give them something to work on. Good for them. I'm glad that they would go to someone who would enjoy them.
I went over and bought some cute doggie pens (will have to post pictures tomorrow) and a scratch pad for a dollar and they had one of the dogs there, a black lab that was so cute.
There were a bunch of people who had their dogs with. A pair of lovely looking German Shephards, a very pretty 'mutt' who was a mix of spaniel and something else. A pair of red corgis that the roomie took hers over to talk with, a fun size puppy that I wanted to steal, a pretty Weimer and Bulldog that were VERY well behaved and the guy who had them said he had five dogs total all the same size. Those two of the ones who were better behaved and he liked to get them out to socialize. There was someone else who had a bulldog that was very cute. What wasn't so cute was one of the other people who were selling things who had small terriers or whatever. They had their tables by the road and was letting one of the dogs run around without a leash. That was stupid. Freaking people need to keep their dogs on a leash, especially with other dogs around. One of them was sniffing at the mutt before snapping and the poor dog jumped a mile in the sky before trying to get away from the little ankle biter. And the woman was just like 'No, bad.' Uh, whatever lady. If your little dogs can't behave in public/around other dogs, then they shouldn't be out.
Overall, it was a good day and $1100 was raised, at least that's what we heard around 11:30.