I Had the Most Fun...

...handing out coupons at our local grocery store on Saturday. Several of us stationed ourselves around the entrance of our local grocery and gave coupons good for $10 off their purchases to everyone who came in. We had advertised it in the store's flyer the week before, but it seemed that a lot of people didn't know about it. It was fun to watch people as they came through the door with a wary look on their faces, frantically searching for a way around us. They thought we were soliciting from them. When they realized we were giving rather than trying to take, the looks of astonishment were priceless.

And then there were the ones who were aware of our plan, and came just to get the coupon...like "Doc", a homeless man who got $10 worth of free food. And ones like the man who said, "You don't know how much this means!" (Those were the ones I wanted to reach.) One man took coupons and a couple of "spotters" and went to the trailer park and knocked on doors handing them out.

I went back to the store later that evening, and one of the cashieres said they couldn't remember a busier day. People were coming in all afternoon long to redeem their coupons. I remember thinking at 5 PM how full the parking lot still was. What a way to spend a day!