Youth United cookout

So, this Saturday was the Youth United cookout made to raise funds for building houses. This involved selling hot dogs, chips, drinks, toolboxes, and mother's day gifts. As with Thursday, I wasn't the only volunteer present, though it wasn't as crowded as when NDCL came.

For the first hour and a half of the cookout, we got exactly zero customers. This sort of made sense since no one would want to buy food from a cookout between 10:00 and 11:30, but it was still very discouraging. So volunteer Kyle Dipre and I decided to launch an advertising campaign. Some of the volunteers found a poster board, wrote some info about the cookout on it, and gave it to me to show to cars as they drove by.

After my lunch break ended, I went back to the cookout location to discover that my advertising efforts had paid off (or people finally got hungry enough to eat lunch. I like to think that's not the case). At this point, the job of advertising had been designated to two other volunteers, so I worked at the cash register for a while. However, the job of advertising was eventually handed back to me and a volunteer named Nathan.

At this point, someone had written "jumbo" before "hot dogs" on our sign even though that clearly wasn't true. Nathan was an energetic kid and somehow got the idea to shout out our advertisement to any passing cars that had their window down. I quickly joined in, and, miraculously, a line actually formed by the cookout, so we continued the practice.

Soon after Nathan and I quit our job as advertisers, two of the volunteers left, and no one else felt like advertising, so no one did the job. The rest of the day was spent at the cash register until it was time to clean up the stand.