Still working it out…

“Every week is an actual event that we put on.” That’s what an old manager of mine said. Brittany, to be exact. I hadn’t thought of it like that. I know we do a great service for so many clients. But what she was saying was….well. Think of putting a graduation party on for your kids or a friend. And you have to put up outside seating, and a tent and figure out where people are going to walk or park, and how many people need how many cups, and how the bathrooms will be used and facilitated. Think of how you’re going to have 25-45 people in your house at one time. And we do this every single weekend of the year, at some strangers house and we need to be out by the end of Sunday. We do this every weekend. And I still haven’t figured it out all the way. We set up a sale in Kirkwood this weekend. It went as planned. Not super great, but good. And the client told me, “Hey don’t lock that bottom lock because we don’t have a key and cannot get you one.” So I didn’t even tell me workers that. Because I’m dumb, yes, but also because we have done this ONE THOUSAND times before. We use the lock we are told to use and that’s it. So no one locks an EXTRA lock…that would be silly. But the ancillary crew, the cleanout crew that comes in and works for me after the sale itself is over, they are not in my brainspace. And sure enough, they locked themselves out today. I don’t even get bothered anymore. I just called a locksmith and will figure it out tomorrow. But again, this is just one of 100 things we have to keep in every mind every weekend at one of two sales in a strangers house. One of TWO EVENTS we put on every weekend out there.