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Having a booth at a swap meet right next to guy selling wooden train whistles, especially if he's wearing a conductor's uniform and a hat. Or worse being right next to vendor in an engineer's hat and overalls with authentic dirt all over it selling (loud) recordings of diesel horns. Either way, buyers avoid your booth or you can't hear them. It's even worse if the conductor or engineer eats stinky food all day and want to talk to you all the time right up close in your face with their stinky breath and only say stupid things. And if you're lucky enough to still get a buyer, there is always some dorky guy - usually two people wide - blocking half of your booth reading every old Model Railroader you're offering for $1.ea. Then a soccer mom comes along with three kids (total of eight hands) and they proceed to open every box, fondle your superdetailed diesel and then run the 'steam train w/ the coal car" all over the table; then she says "we're just looking' after you diplomatically request that she control her unruly offspring, and she further adds "this is a toy show isn't it!?"
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