You just won't believe it...

Oct 29, 2009 18:46

I am in charge of the capital campaign in the church.. So I am cognizant of what we have.  What we need and what the shortfall is.. (I figure about 50 grand short..)  Oh my so we are doing bingo.   There are those that hate bingo.  It's gambling, it takes advantage of people's weaknesses.  In our game the max investment is probably $50 so you could go broke but it would take a long long time and we are cash only so it would be tough to do.

We have been having trouble getting publicity.  Nobody wants that job.  Heck no one wants to publicize the church either.  It's not a skill we really have, unfortunately because we really need it.  So our bingo maven asked me to put out flyers and to get help putting out flyers.  I failed at getting help.  No help was forthcoming!  So I decided to try and put out 4 hundred some flyers myself.  I figured I could try...

Well I tried the first day and I couldn't do it.  I was sore afraid!  I was just way too scared to put a flyer on a car.  I tried caramels and although I ate the whole bag I was still afraid to molest strange cars.  I drove home and developed a plan.  I have in my possesion (at all times) anti-anxiety drugs.   So I took one in the morning.  Along with 3 cups of coffee.  And I started papering cars.  After the first one, it's easy,  It's just a stamina thing then.  No, no the alarms do not go off.  Expect for one.  One pickup truck noticed I was approaching, then the truck owner showed up and I handed him the flyer.. Hah!  That was fun...

So here I am.  I can't hardly walk.  Just barely recovered from the blessed infected hair, one hair can take you DOWN, let me tell you.  I was able to get out at least 200 flyers over the 2 days.  We got 2 people come to bingo  because of my flyer distributiion,  hopefully someone will come next week also.

It could have been a better result but the point is that I can walk, I can move, it's 100% about determination.  Many things I cannot do I in fact can.  Although, I am paying the price.   But it's worth it I think.  Not so much for the game but for me.  The proof that I can and the practice of doing. Maybe this is an exercise that I will regularly do.  It's definately not a pointless thing to do.

bingo, walk

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