20 Jan Wed 2016
Markets
Going to markets as a vendor is one thing and being a market master another. The markets we attend are ran by others and we go to pebble our produce and products grown and made by us--sell what we have pack up, go home and prepare for the next week. But as a market master I must make and enforce rules--we keep it grower only, that allows for more farmers to be on the market.
Market managers tend to the every day grime--and one of those grimes is dealing with unruly customers. As a farmer, marketeer(a farmer selling at a market), and a market master I found that customers can often be wrong--given wrong info through magazines, by others, by the news, books, etc..But so often both parties can take something the wrong way turning into an unpleasant moment's'. I often tell the managers not to take sides and have the customer move on until the problem can be resolved later(this tactic works well and the problem is almost always taken care of to the satisfaction of both parties), but one time(once in 15 years) the customer kept coming back causing problems. The farmer in question had enough and went after this unruly person, luckily the manager had decide to stay near this farmers booth space for this very reason and got between them--after that the police was called and the customer was arrested.
These instances rarely happen but must be prepared for--in the end when things cooled down everyone had a good laugh and reminds us that when bad things happen get past it and laugh too.
God bless