Thank everyone for the answers and kind words. doing something like this
does make a day or show special, and I always have found one person whose
day can be made better by a kind word or act. Some day if any one is
interested I'll share some of the stranger/funnier ones. How ever I am
finding more of the little girls in my story at every show then I have in
the past. Makes me wonder what's going on and If I can keep giving away
items Like I have in the past. I know I will as long as I can afford it.

One last story about a show. It was a slow show, looking crowd not many
buyers. A family comes in and are looking at the toys, playing with them and
asking questions. The Grandfather who spoke with a strange (at least to me)
accent was introduced to me as just having come over to visit his daughter
from Israel. He picked up a $2 item and told me it was two expensive, he
would like to buy it but wouldn't pay such a high price for it. His
daughter turned around from talking with my wife with a look of horror on
her face. I told the grandfather that to take less would be a disgrace to
my labor and for him to pay less would dishoner me. We went on for about
ten minutes accusing each other of trying to rob the other and steal food
from out of our babies mouths etc. Drew a small crowd and had the daughter
and her husband trying to crawl in a hole and hide. In the end he got the
item for $1.90. I sold about $50 or so to the amused onlookers and daughter
and husband hustled the old man away looking like they wanted to die. It
was a fun sale.
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Did a high end invitation only show this weekend. Great setting (
Governors Mansion and Capitol Building grounds) free food for all and
special VIP breakfast for invited participants. Lots of fancy dress and
Ky Derby Hats on the women and all the usual Ky Derby hoopla. The
general public was invited to a buffet breakfast and to see and buy from
the vendors (only 36 vendors invited) I had one family with three little
girls come by and the oldest kid about 10 yr old threw up in front of my
booth, causing an awkward moment. Every thing else went fine, decent
sales, nice customers most on the upper scale of income. Toward the end of
the show I had a mother and daughter come in to the booth, both clean but
not "well dressed", kid wanted every thing in the booth. She finally
settled on two items one $6 and one $8. The mother gently let the kid
know that she couldn't afford the $8 toy but could get the $6 toy, if they
didn't buy anything else at the show and skipped some other treat of the
day. (This was done quietly while I was with another customer so I
wouldn't know.) What should I have done?


What I did was offer the mother a "slightly damaged" $8 toy for $6 and
when she agreed (much to the little girl"s delight) and I had made the
transaction I knelt beside the little girl (in the mother's sight and
hearing) and slipped the $6 dollar toy in her pocket and told her it was
because she was such a delightful and cute child. I got a hug from the
girl a smile from the mother and a your a sucker look from SWMBO.

Tie in to wood they were wooden toys.