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A pair of ladies showed up at 3:25 for the 4:00 fresh chicken sale.
They spent like a minute and a half backing-and-filling so that they were parked DIRECTLY IN FRONT of the door to the granary, where we sell the chickens.
The fact that then no one could get into the granary to then sell them a chicken didn’t seem to occur to them. We let them sit there ten minutes because we weren’t set up yet anyway, and then were saved from having to yell at them by the firewood delivery guy showing up and getting out of his giant truck and yelling at them because they were not only blocking the door to the building but the driveway to every possible destination on the farm as well.
They moved… directly in front of the doors to the farmstand… but since vegetable share pickup doesn’t start until 4pm we figure there’s a while before that’ll become a problem.
(No I’m kidding, my sister went out and sold them a goddamn chicken so they would fucking move their fucking car, because 100 people have to get in and out of here starting at 4pm and frankly we don’t need their shit.)
It’s now 3:45 and everyone else is showing up.
It’s not like we sell out of chicken. It’s not like the vegetables run out. It is an open thing, come between 4 and 7 pm. You don’t have to line up. There’s not really waiting. And it’s counted out so nothing will run out.
Sister has sent out about five emails over the course of the May-Oct season, saying “please don’t show up early for pickup, we have to set up and we don’t have the staffing to wait on you outside of designated pickup hours,” and that usually cuts it back for a few pickups but. Oh my gosh. People lose their minds over fresh chicken.
I guess we’re glad about that, but for real, guys, 4pm. Really 4pm.
And there are real actual parking spaces all over the place. You don’t have to block any doors or driveways, even!
But we’ll let the firewood guy take care of that for now…
A pair of ladies showed up at 3:25 for the 4:00 fresh chicken sale.
They spent like a minute and a half backing-and-filling so that they were parked DIRECTLY IN FRONT of the door to the granary, where we sell the chickens.
The fact that then no one could get into the granary to then sell them a chicken didn’t seem to occur to them. We let them sit there ten minutes because we weren’t set up yet anyway, and then were saved from having to yell at them by the firewood delivery guy showing up and getting out of his giant truck and yelling at them because they were not only blocking the door to the building but the driveway to every possible destination on the farm as well.
They moved… directly in front of the doors to the farmstand… but since vegetable share pickup doesn’t start until 4pm we figure there’s a while before that’ll become a problem.
(No I’m kidding, my sister went out and sold them a goddamn chicken so they would fucking move their fucking car, because 100 people have to get in and out of here starting at 4pm and frankly we don’t need their shit.)
It’s now 3:45 and everyone else is showing up.
It’s not like we sell out of chicken. It’s not like the vegetables run out. It is an open thing, come between 4 and 7 pm. You don’t have to line up. There’s not really waiting. And it’s counted out so nothing will run out.
Sister has sent out about five emails over the course of the May-Oct season, saying “please don’t show up early for pickup, we have to set up and we don’t have the staffing to wait on you outside of designated pickup hours,” and that usually cuts it back for a few pickups but. Oh my gosh. People lose their minds over fresh chicken.
I guess we’re glad about that, but for real, guys, 4pm. Really 4pm.
And there are real actual parking spaces all over the place. You don’t have to block any doors or driveways, even!
But we’ll let the firewood guy take care of that for now…
