I was asked by my friend John if I would consider getting dressed up again this weekend as the Hopper at the fair... I hate to use a pun but I hopped at the chance. The costume was supposed to be sent back on Friday but DISH told him he could hold on to it until Monday.
I jumped when he asked me because frankly I had fun doing it and plus I lost a bunch of weight playing Hopper in my previous stints, so for me it was a win win!
In the past when in costume I would do 20 - 30 minutes in the costume and then 20 - 30 minutes out of it. But on Saturday I stayed in it for a solid 2 hours. Yup I was hot but I had FUN! On Saturday the Big E had an all time paid attendance record of 164,281. There were a few times I wanted to get out of but there were so many kids there I couldn't leave them.
At one point though I almost broke down and started crying in the costume. There was a large group of handicaped kids and people who were being pushed in their wheel chairs. I went up to each as they came by and hi fived them. shook their hands and hugged them, they loved it! Then there was one girl at the end who was in her chair her body was twisted and it was like her head was on sideways. I went up and shook her hand then leaned over and gave her a big hug. After I hugged her she grabbed my hand and said "A lot of people try avoiding me because of the way I look, but you came over and gave me a nice big hug, thank you for remembering that I am a person too." I almost lost it then. She smiled and we waved goodbye. That made it all worth it for me right there.
No one from DISH could believe that I lasted for 2 hours out there in the crowd that day, but I did and I am proud of it.
Who knows what the future holds for my friend John, he might be a DIRECTV booth next year instead of DISH and if he is I hope they have a mascot too. I would be PROUD to represent their brand just as good as I did for DISH. In the past years his booth has always been DIRECTV, this was the first year he was DISH. In the past I would help him out and sell lots of DIRECTV too)
While I was there I sold a lot of DISH, I enjoyed giving demo's of the Hopper and those demo's of showing what the Hopper could do is what sealed a lot of the deals. I love being able to talk about this technology with others... and thats part of the reason why I love SatelliteGuys so much, not only do I learn here but I enjoy helping people back.
That night I went home and felt great. I was not only happy to do it, I was PROUD to do it.
I jumped when he asked me because frankly I had fun doing it and plus I lost a bunch of weight playing Hopper in my previous stints, so for me it was a win win!
In the past when in costume I would do 20 - 30 minutes in the costume and then 20 - 30 minutes out of it. But on Saturday I stayed in it for a solid 2 hours. Yup I was hot but I had FUN! On Saturday the Big E had an all time paid attendance record of 164,281. There were a few times I wanted to get out of but there were so many kids there I couldn't leave them.
At one point though I almost broke down and started crying in the costume. There was a large group of handicaped kids and people who were being pushed in their wheel chairs. I went up to each as they came by and hi fived them. shook their hands and hugged them, they loved it! Then there was one girl at the end who was in her chair her body was twisted and it was like her head was on sideways. I went up and shook her hand then leaned over and gave her a big hug. After I hugged her she grabbed my hand and said "A lot of people try avoiding me because of the way I look, but you came over and gave me a nice big hug, thank you for remembering that I am a person too." I almost lost it then. She smiled and we waved goodbye. That made it all worth it for me right there.
No one from DISH could believe that I lasted for 2 hours out there in the crowd that day, but I did and I am proud of it.
Who knows what the future holds for my friend John, he might be a DIRECTV booth next year instead of DISH and if he is I hope they have a mascot too. I would be PROUD to represent their brand just as good as I did for DISH. In the past years his booth has always been DIRECTV, this was the first year he was DISH. In the past I would help him out and sell lots of DIRECTV too)
While I was there I sold a lot of DISH, I enjoyed giving demo's of the Hopper and those demo's of showing what the Hopper could do is what sealed a lot of the deals.
I love being able to talk about this technology with others... and thats part of the reason why I love SatelliteGuys so much, not only do I learn here but I enjoy helping people back.That night I went home and felt great. I was not only happy to do it, I was PROUD to do it.
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