Tammi's World

Can you cover the bail?

Well, today was....interesting. After my early morning start it just got....more interesting.

Hehehehe

You can only imagine our intense pleasure at discovering that our biggest competitor (and stealer of our ideas) was located directly across from us at the show. Yeah, keep that in mind, it comes into play later in my day.

The show started out with, get this, a marching band. Yep, a local high school marching band walked through the entire convention center. Flags and everything. Those poor kids. Pulled out of bed early on a Sunday morning for that. I hope they at least gave 'em breakfast....

We were pretty busy. I made some great contacts and actually am working with another military retailer to put together programs that I am soooo excited about. You can only imagine how much I love dealing with the retailers that actually are in business to actually work WITH our military families. It's a passion for me. And this is just what I've been looking for.

I should mention all of our upper managment were commenting on how much help we had this morning taking the sheets down, and again tonite puttin' 'em back up. Hehehe. Yeah, wonder what was up with that? ;-)

We did have a little bit of a problem. I was meeting with a customer, standing on the edge of our booth area. Well those damned competitors I mentioned earlier? Yeah, one of those bastards actually walked across the aisle and interrupted me during my conversation with that customer. Interrurpted me. I glared, and he finally apologized and walked away. As I was walking out to have one of my FOUR ALL DAY cigarettes I saw him on the edge of his booth. I stopped, looked him directly in the eye and simply said - "Don't. Do. That. Again."

My boss was ready to kick some ass, but everyone told him to leave it - or send me in. I told Mama Vi what happened and all she said was "Did they budget bail money?"

My boss is thinkin' he may have to start doing that.

Anyway other than those few incidents it was a fairly quiet day, for a convention. I'm saving Martha for tomorrow morning when I can actually think straight. Plus that needs a whole damn post of it's own.......

Posted by Tammi at January 28, 2007 10:24 PM | TrackBack