Registration Day

I’m leaving shortly to go register as a StreetWise vendor. Registration is at 10:00 a.m.  I’ll be taking my camera and a new journal to record the experience.

Orientation

I arrived at the StreeWise building exactly at 10:00 a.m. I rang the button and was buzzed in. I went directly to the cage where I was politely asked by a man whom would later be introduced to as Ron. Ron picked up the phone and told someone that they had someone here for orientation.

 A very tall man wearing black train conductor’s hat, a black tee shirt and black jogging pants with a red strip going down the side of his leg came in and introduced himself as Johnny.  His first question he asked me was if I ever sold StreetWise before. I had assured him that I hadn’t. I was told to follow him into the next room and fill out some paperwork. I sat down at the round wooden table that was to my left as soon as I entered the room.

The room that I was in had painted red concrete floors. To my left were a dozen Gateway computers along the wall. One grey-haired man sat there with his back turned to me on one of them. He seemed to be in his late fifties, early sixties.

After I finished filling out the paperwork and reading StreetWise’s Mission statement, Johnny came back and gave me a history of Streetwise. I noticed as he walked towards me that he walked with a limp. It seemed he was born with one leg shorter than the other or he had an artificial leg.

Continued Tomorrow.