Our first event in June, was 2 days at the above store, with our collection buckets, as demonstrated in the photograph to the right, by Lion Babu Roye.
My first shift was the late slot (3PM to 5PM) on the Saturday, in the company of Lion Ron Eadie. I think it is fair to say that we both enjoyed our stint, helped by being very busy, and by Ron's aim to try to get a lion's sticker on every child who passed. We also gave away plenty of stickers to older children as well! A great deal of happy banter ensued between the public and Ron and myself.
On the following day I again did the late slot, this time with Lion Babu, the difference in the two days being that the Sunday was much quieter in terms of people in the store, but it was still reasonably busy.
Two things stood out from the Sunday collection, firstly it always amazes me the number of people who try to get in the store within ten minutes of it's closing, (there were still some people trying to get in with about 2 minutes before it closed!), the second is that we were kept company for about an hour by 2 children and their father, who were waiting for the mother to finish shopping in the store.
The reason for the shopping expedition, was that it was the Birthday of one of the children, and the Mother was getting a cake. As a Birthday treat we gave the child about a dozen stickers!
Thanks to all the lions who did a 2 hour slot, and to Asda for letting us in their store, and to their customers who contributed.
Lion John Crompton
28th September 2011
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