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The first question, 'how many of you thought, that because Halloween was going to be on Saturday they would have one of the best turnouts ever ? I did, without question, with the number of cars that came by while I was setting up, the number of questions I was ask by those who stopped by and watched as I set up, I thought, 'the turn out is going to be huge this year'. NOPE. I'm sure as many of you were getting ready for Halloween, people were watching, little kids too, right ? Several of my neighbors said, "I'm calling the local station to tell them they should get out here and check out your haunt, it's the best". I actually know that phone calls were made by my friends, and they told me, that they told these local stations, to come out and check the cemetery out. NOPE.
Four weeks of setting up, testing, check for problems, the anticipation grew. Everything worked great, we were ready. NOPE. Within the first hour my new cemetery creep died. My ground breaker stopped working. The wind began to blow, so fog machines were useless. We were hoping for 500, we got a little over 300. To many of you the number is big, to us, well under what we had last year. Depressed, "YES". All the work, the thought of a local station showing up so we could show off. 'NOPE'.
So again, I ask, are you bummed about the weekend, or just shrug it off and say lets move on. Maybe an overreaction but when you work through the entire year and want it to be the best, maybe I need to tone it back some and not expect a home run each year. Maybe I need to retire, because I have been doing this for over 20 years.
Let me know your thoughts, just curious but this is the first time I've posted since October 31st. I was actually burned out. Were your expectations dashed?
Four weeks of setting up, testing, check for problems, the anticipation grew. Everything worked great, we were ready. NOPE. Within the first hour my new cemetery creep died. My ground breaker stopped working. The wind began to blow, so fog machines were useless. We were hoping for 500, we got a little over 300. To many of you the number is big, to us, well under what we had last year. Depressed, "YES". All the work, the thought of a local station showing up so we could show off. 'NOPE'.
So again, I ask, are you bummed about the weekend, or just shrug it off and say lets move on. Maybe an overreaction but when you work through the entire year and want it to be the best, maybe I need to tone it back some and not expect a home run each year. Maybe I need to retire, because I have been doing this for over 20 years.
Let me know your thoughts, just curious but this is the first time I've posted since October 31st. I was actually burned out. Were your expectations dashed?
