Veggie Rant

I know I promised lovely tales about the book signing at Barnes & Noble but that will have to wait until I'm done venting.

All this week, I've known that we are going to have an event on Friday where I work and I've been bracing for it, all week. My day off was spent in part making a trio of coverings for flats for the event (8' tall by 30'' wide), and I have told everyone who has come into the store for weeks and weeks that this is an not-t0-be-missed photographic opportunity. I mean come on, don't you want to have your picture taken with Bob & Larry of VEGGIE TALES (tm)? That is a rhetorical question in case any tarbs were wondering.

I've set up for events before, m'lord Batson has been in solo three times, Capt'n Bryan Polivka's been in once solo, and then we had the Fantasy Four Fiction tour and all of those I set up and broke down. We've had Skillet in for a performance after hours, and we've also had several local musicians come in and play for customers. It is wearying, but it's not bone draggingly so. But today, today was the day from retail purgatory.

It started out overwhelming at noon when I was told I needed to move the four main fixtures in the store to make room for the Veggie Event, and then was told the owner was on their way up with over 1,000 titles in her car for us to ''make room for and put out for the signing''
I don't know how many of you have seen 1,000 titles of something but I can tell you this, it is alot. A whole lot. It took all day to empty the displays, take the glass shelves off the displays, move the displays, and then wash the glass from the displays and refill the displays. It took all evening to strip the end caps, make room for the product that was on the end caps elsewhere, and then decorate and refill the end caps with Veggie related product. In between doing all that, came EIGHT boxes of Christmas Cards that needed to be housed in the cramped back room, and customers customers customers that wanted to buy things (the nerve of them).

Highlight of the day?

Realizing that *I AM NOT THE ONE BREAKING IT DOWN ON SATURDAY*