Where did you say you got your calendar?

While Hope in Shadows vendors are legally allowed to sell the 2010 calendar on sidewalks in Vancouver and North Vancouver, they are approached anywhere they go, as Carole can attest to...

"Every year since you began your sales I buy the beautiful calendars from the street vendors. I buy them as Christmas gifts and also for myself. This year I bought mine in a most unusual way, my vendor was going home on the bus, looked exhausted and appeared to be catching his breath. I asked about the calendars he was holding and if I could buy one, I bought two. Then other bus passengers noticed the man and his calendars and he sold all his calendars. He then jumped off the bus and instead of going home went to pick up more calendars to sell! This was one dedicated vendor!"

Carole e-mailed us this gem of a story last week. After e-mailing Carole and asking if we could use this story on this blog, she replied that we could, adding: "Wish I had got the vendor's name. Some passengers looked displeased at the vendor and I's connection, while others smiled and appeared pleased, and indeed others bought calendars too, until as I said the vendor was completely sold out. Thanks to PIVOT and its many, many dyinamic programs and services, our society is a better place to live in."

Calendar sellers are not officially allowed to solicit for sales on the bus or Skytrain but seeing as they are so visable with the blue uniform, people do approach vendors anywhere.