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I had to be at the show site for several hours on Friday night while the crafters set up. Brian couldn't be there with me, because he was running in the 5k run at the local park. (His time was 25.08! He was in the middle of the pack of runners, finishing ahead of over 100 people!)
My friend, Cheryl, and her daughter, Shannon, showed up to help me out on both Friday and Saturday. This was extremely fortunate for me, as the crafters sometimes get grumpy about which spot they've been assigned. Also, some vendors who never actually applied to be in the show just show up on Saturday morning wanting to get a spot. (This year, I had purposely left about three or four spots open to fill with just such a vendor or two.)
Sure enough, on Saturday morning, when I arrived at about 6:30 a.m. there was a vendor already occupying an area that wasn't quite designated as a vendor space. He had unloaded his cement garden ornaments, and just assumed I'd allow him the use of the space. (I made him pay in cash for the use of the space, and almost made him move the whole display several feet down the sidewalk to another empty spot, which had been designated a space. I was afraid that the Fire Marshal would want the vendor moved away from the corner he had put his wares in.
The cement statue vendor had to leave suddenly on Saturday afternoon, as he apparently received a phone call saying that his mother had been in an accident. All of his statues were left on display, and some of my fellow JCs sold a few for him, thinking he'd just gone to the rest room or to get some lunch and would be back soon. Later that evening, when he had not returned, I called the number he had written on his application and found out about the accident.
He had come to pick up the garden statues sometime around 5 a.m. on Sunday morning (according to the security guard I spoke with.)
One of the other vendors came up to me on Sunday afternoon, and left some cash with me for the statue vendor. He had also sold a statue for him!