The Bucket!

Adil Latif | Snowboarding-Mont Blanc glacier Descent | ON 19th April 2007 | 0 comments

Did a dreaded street collection on Fulham Broadway. We started about 5:30 and were out there till 9. There was such diversity in people on the street. Some of them were not interested and others were so interested that they requested photos next to us.

I’m not sure why, though. Haven’t they ever seen a blind guy with a white stick standing on a snowboard on the pavement with balloons and a bucket in his hands?

One of the best was a lady who tried to sound really interested, but was only concerned with wanting to take one of our helium-filled red balloons for her wee one.

Rob Drake was amazing at pulling people towards me begging them for pennies. He was scarily good at that. Not sure if he had been between jobs for a while?

Bilal was amazing at enticing people my way with the majority of them being outstandingly pretty girls. I’m sure he appreciated his legitimacy in being able to talk to random strangers on the street.

Elizna was absolutely dedicated to the cause by building rapport and selling the project to the people she met. Rob H. ensured that the people who were having a nice, peaceful dinner at the street side cafes would have to eat their food while looking at a flyer of me, which he would then deposit on their tables.

Jun was the most smartly dressed in his suit straight from work and enticed people with his Japanese charm. Megan was a star at organising the event and talked Borders into allowing us to tape some posters to the outside of their window during our street collection! Georgia was the official camera woman on the day and caught us all picking our nose and rolling our eyes.

Afterwards, we went for a round of free drinks, courtesy of TGI Friday in Fulham and another free round courtesy of David Lloyd.

Knuckles up to all the shops in Fulham Broadway who allowed us to drop flyers. Borders bookshop was awesome as they allowed us to park a table outside their window looking onto Fulham Road.

Thanks to Mo from David Lloyd health club in Fulham Broadway for providing the table and for charming Clintons into filling up our balloons!