We went to the Home and Garden Show in Minneapolis last Saturday. Here are my thoughts on the experience:
1. We were astounded by the work that must have gone into putting some of the landscaping displays in the convention center, including huge boulders and actual trees. God bless those people for giving us a preview of spring, which I shall share with you.
2. The people manning the booths all fall into the aggressive part of the human spectrum. If you don’t want to get sucked into somebody’s sales pitch, you have to avoid eye contact, and even then, you might still be drawn in by the gravitational pull of the salesperson. They were doing their jobs well, so I am not complaining. I found that a simple disclaimer “We’re not in the market for that,” got me off the hook in most cases. And of course, there were some booths where we were actually very interested in the product.
3. There was a booth selling cricket flour as a protein source. They had cricket cookie samples and also an assortment of dried and seasoned crickets to try. Our daughter-in-law had both and gave a thumbs up on the cookie, but said the cricket wasn’t spicy enough. I eschewed the chewing of these samples.
4. We got to hear Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs guy (a show I still have not seen). It’s the first time I’ve seen someone get a standing ovation before he even started speaking. In the interest of photo journalism I took a blurry photo to share with you all, but we did not get the wristbands necessary to hob nob with him afterward, so there are no close-ups. During the Q&A, somebody asked him if he’d be willing to do the dirtiest job of all and run for president. His answer, which was long, articulate and amusing, came down to one word: “NO.” Smart fellow.
5. The only thing we bought was a bunch of yellow tulips to brighten someone else’s table. It was like carrying spring home with us.
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