Right Place, Right Time
“We’re doing a giveaway from a semi-truck,” K had told me. Since we usually do giveaways from a box truck, I knew that this was going to be a huge giveaway. And this was on the morning of New Year’s Eve. We have free use of a church parking lot close to the center of town, but the parking lot is too small to accommodate a semi. Thus, we met at a church I’ve never been to before. It is on the edge of town and has a very large and open parking lot. K and the unloading team had been there since 8:30. Distribution team setup was set for 10:30, with the giveaway set to start around 11AM. When I got there, they had already unloaded the semi and it was gone. The forklift operator was straightening the line of pallets (about 20 of them) and then he loaded the forklift onto a trailer and drove off. On the pallets were dozens of cases of sparkling iced tea. One last pallet had a huge box full of bar soap—much of which had not been cut up into bars. The team was bagging-up the smaller bars...