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The Table
at the Mall where Miracles Happen
“Does it
really pay you to sit at this Table all day?” asked my friend who stopped to
talk to me yesterday.
Each week on
Wednesday I set up my Table in the Peterborough Square in front of the Crop
Circles Store – (lower level). I am there between 10 AM and 4 PM working with
Crop Circles.
On my Table
I have my wood carving, my lace making and whatever seasonal item that I am
featuring at the time. Yesterday my new feature was my newly Carved Golf Balls.
Each item on the Table has a story
behind it and each item is for sale or can be specially ordered by my potential
client.
Now why
would I expect anyone to purchase a Carved Golf Ball? Not everyone Golfs, do they? Nope. But at
times there are dozens of people that know someone that Golfs – and they buy
these crazy critters that I have created.
They are great gifts for daughters to buy for their dad or mom. They are also purchased by fellow golf
buddies for their friend they golf with each week. At $4 these are an ideal gift that brings
smiles to someone’s face.
One the
Table are also the Carved Feathers and Carved Leaves – which both are the higher
end of my carving at the present time. These carvings are paper thin… and sell
for about $150 each – at the larger size and down to $20 for the smaller size
that are made for necklaces.
Besides the
high end carving are the Celtic Love Spoons which range in price from around
$45 each up to $150. The love spoons are
purchased by people going to a wedding or an anniversary. After carving the
item I then burn the memorable dates into the spoon with the names of the
couple on it.
Good
question - “Does it really pay you to sit at this Table all day?”
Yesterday I
didn’t sell a lot of things but I met a whack of people. And on top of the new people that I met,
repeat people returned to speak with me.
Then on top of the repeat customers were the every Wednesday People that
always stop by to speak with me – catching me up on their lives and what is
happening each week.
The
Wednesday People are perhaps the most important at any given moment. They have
few friends and likely the loneliest people I have ever met.
One lady
only has a cat and the cat can’t speak… but every week she tells me what the
cat has done in the past week. This lady
is very heavy, uses a walker and struggles to walk. Yesterday when she stopped
to speak with me she was very upset. She had been sitting on a bench and while
there she was munching on a small chocolate bar.
A man stopped
in front of her and told her that she shouldn’t be eating a chocolate bar because
she was so fat. She had tears in her eyes as she described what had just
happened. I simply listened.
It was a
good day yesterday at the Table. I have
two more weddings to conduct after meeting brides that just needed to talk with
someone. They stopped to look at one of
the things on my Table and then we began to talk. They had been wondering around the mall on
time off from their jobs in a building nearby… and simply wanted to talk.
A third
potential bride and potential wedding ceremony for me stated with a giggle, “You
should me a Wedding Planner!” We had
spoken about her plans that were indefinite as of yet. She and her boyfriend
had two kids now and wanted to get married but couldn’t find a place that was
just right. There were internal family struggles as to what they should or
shouldn’t be doing.
Soooo… with my
thirty five years of experience in doing weddings I shared with her all the
different kinds of possible weddings that I have attended. I told her of the great
places in our area where weddings can be conducted.
I truly
think she was my happiest “customer” yesterday.
She took a woodcarving pamphlet and promised she would call
Lots happens
at the Table. And after yesterday’s
whole day at the Table I may well have booked $600 in wedding ceremonies, a few
$100 more in Golf Balls and woodcarvings.
Does it pay
to sit from 10 AM to 4 PM each Wednesday?
Yep in ways that I cannot imagine. It is a Table of miracles where I
meet the world… well maybe not the whole world but only about 100 a day.
I can’t stop
thinking of the lady with her walker and the stories of her cat. The tears in
her eyes were real… and she just needed someone to listen. That story alone was worth $1,000,000 alone.
“Does it
really pay you to sit at this Table all day?” Yes it does… yes it does.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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