- If you put a new product on your stall, no matter what type or where it came from, a customer will ask – “Did you make that?”
- The day you want to leave the market early you will get a last minute customer.
- The day you get a new table cloth a pigeon will poop on it.
- If you overcharge a customer you will find him/her in the next stall. If you undercharge a customer they will have left the market.
- Your EFTPOS machine will run out of battery during the biggest sale of the day.
- When you are forced to take a day off it will be on the day of the week that you have already used up your allocation.
- Your hot lunch will always arrive just before a particularly lengthy sale.
- The last product in the range never sells.
- A new product will sell particularly well only until the minute you place a repeat order.
- A very busy morning trade is usually followed by a quiet afternoon. A quiet morning usually stays that way.