Appreciate Your Customers (Well Most of Them)

Kate had been busy emailing around looking for more Friday gigs, since the BLVD market was only happening once a month.  While, I was in charge of finding a replacement market for Tuesdays, now that we quit Mira Mesa.

As luck would have it, we got an email from a Jim Johnson at AC Pro, an HVAC Equipment, Parts, Supplies & Service store in El Cajon.  From time to time, they offered a "Customer Appreciation Day" outside their warehouse from around 11am-1:30 on a Friday.  He had heard about us from a friend who'd loved our sandwiches at one of the breweries in East County.  

We packed the Ford Escape nearly to the ceiling with nine loaves of Sourdough & all the fixins to make plenty of Bacon Streets, Tommy Applewoods, Katers Taters & Zach Daddys.  I grilled them up fresh & Kate boxed them up for their customers to grab on their way out.

There was one guy, though who took it too far.   This guy had absolutely no shame whatsoever.

"All of this is free of charge?" he asked Kate.

"Yep, AC-Pro already paid, so it's all for the customers," she said.   

He nodded & grabbed (no joke) at least eight boxes & as many bags of Dirty Brand Chips that he could juggle.  It was towards the end of our setup, but still this guy was just being a selfish jerk.

"Wow," Jim Johnson said to us afterwards.  "You give 'em an inch & they take it a mile."

It didn't affect our day out there or our relationship with AC Pro, though.  Mr. Johnson invited us back for two more Customer Appreciation Days & we never saw that jerk out there again.