Tenth Market and Is Someone Trying to Tell Us Something

You can make of this what you will, but I can’t help but think that someone is trying to tell us something. The past few weeks have brought us stormy, rainy weather on the day of the market, not to mention slow business. I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s almost like clockwork, and everyone at the market jokes around about it, but it’s a bummer.

It wasn’t as awful as it could have been because the bad weather hit us near the end of the market, but it was slow up to that point, which begs the question, where are all the people? I’m guessing they are on vacation, it’s that time of year. People want to get in one last hurrah before the grind of the school year kicks in, but somehow that doesn’t explain it all.

We got soaked in the end, but at some point the rain tapered off, and we were able to close up shop with dry weather. The crazy thing is the weather was nice up to that point, sunny and just a tad warm. It didn’t seem like we were going to get rain, but sure enough it came. It doesn’t seem to discourage customers, however, and they order dumplings while the deluge pours down around them. Maybe that’s not a bad thing. The weather does bring all the vendors together in shared misery, and gives us something to joke about.

One last note, we think S, the manager, gives us a little more credit these days, and even used us as an example to a neophyte. How’s that for progress? In the early days of the market, we were clueless, and S definitely looked at us and probably gave us three weeks, max, to survive, but survive we did. She even (sort of ) alluded to this, jokingly, but probably serious, as well. My how things change.

Until the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Roger Kirby for the pic.