Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Daytona Bike Week




It may probably late but oh well, I know I should post this. I got to work during the bike week last Feb.27 to Mar.1. It's all new to me since we don't have such thing back in my hometown in the Philippines. Although there are groups of different bikers but not a particular bike week exclusive for bikers. Well, i got to work in Patch Stop (the name of the store) which obviously sells patches and some stuffs for the bikers. And my job is to "sew" patches for the bikers. It's funny because it was far way different from what i used to do, which is animation. But, still it has to do with hands, ha! I am not a real seamstress either. I just learned to sew during high school and took "dressmaking" as my vocation. It was fun yet very much "pressured" because when the customers starts to line up and they were all around you watching you sew adds up to the pressure. Not to mention the sun is up and my sewing machine is right in front of the booth and i have not enough shade that i actually got "sunburn" bigtime! But totally it's fun. They have these bad impressions about bikers that probabaly because of their "tough look" and like Steve said that bikers used to be somewhat like a gangster type of thing. But not anymore. It's more of a hobby now specially i noticed most are retired militaries. And it's nice to get to know them too. Their backgrounds, where they came from, their accents and such. Now i get to distinguish which is the so called "southern accent". Well, there's a lot to tell. But here's some photos i took... I worked with Sunny. She works on the cash register. And it's nice because almost all who worked are sisters and brothers from our congregation. The owner of patch stop just simply trusted the Witnesses, which is neat i thought. Until next time....

1 comment:

innerspace said...

Nelly and Craig wrote:Thanks for sharing, it sounds interesting, in fact Craig still has his motorcycle licenses, and used to enjoy riding “crotch rockets,” “rice burners,” and if he was ever to get another bike it would be probably a “Fat Boy” Harley undressed.