Post by davejs on Aug 23, 2011 12:13:42 GMT -5
Here's an article written by Dennis Wyatt in today's Manteca Bulletin. It seems that I have irked somebody over comments I made regarding some people in Manteca. When you read it, pay attention to his twisting of my words.
www.mantecabulletin.com/section/38/article/26555/
Perhaps there’s a reason for the moniker ‘starving vendors’
By Dennis Wyatt
Managing Editor dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com 209-249-3519
“They had no money. They all traded in their clunkers and bought new wheels and now they got their cars repossessed. Some of them just walked around and got fatter while others socialized or played with vendor’s items. What else are they going to do? No money here or anyplace else in the valley. Economy is completely shot along 99 from Marysville to the Grapevine. Economically disadvantaged area and people just go through the motions. Tire-kickers, teenagers pushing strollers, overweight welfare moochers.... they’re all there.”
This is what a vendor – who used to sell their wares at the Crossroads Street Fair and Pumpkin Fair – thinks of the people of Manteca.
The passage is just one of many that is irking Manteca resident Dave Clements. It is posted at www.starvingvendors.com
Where do you begin?
This isn’t even a case of biting the hand that you want to feed you.
It’s utter contempt.
In the world of this vendor if you’re overweight, you’re a welfare moocher.
If you’re a teenage pushing a stroller, you’re obviously an unwed mother.
If your stuff isn’t what someone is willing to part cash for then you’re a tire kicker.
If you check out the reviews of other street fairs you will find the most poisonous venom is reserved for Manteca.
Among the other put downs the vendor D&L Creations has about Manteca:
• “Jerry Springer would love this place.”
Perhaps the vendor believes they are a candidate for “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”
• “I’m sure that they enjoyed themselves except for the kids whose parents bad-mouthed them when they asked if they could buy something. Three dollars, people. Come on, get a life.”
So I guess those so-called “overweight welfare moochers” don’t waste limited resources on $3 junk.
• “Manteca must be the Fly Capital of The World.”
Forgive the serfs out in the hinterlands who raise your food for failure to completely control the fly problem that comes from keeping the plates full for the Grey Poupon set.
Yes, times are economically challenging. But did the vendor ever stop to think the shell jewelry they sell may not be a hot seller in some places?
If they really believe this is a place that Jerry Springer would love, perhaps they might want to check his show out again. I don’t think you see very many folks on the program wearing puka shell chip necklaces.
If I recall, I’ve seen the vendors’ creations and they’re not bad. It’s just something I’m not going to shell out money to purchase mainly because I have no desire to own any.
There might be other folks with the same sentiments. I have - in recent years I might add – dropped a couple of hundred dollars buying original art creations at the Manteca street fairs.
I can tell you, though, if the vendor I bought from viewed Manteca as the folks from D&L Creations did, I’d never buy a single thing from them again.
That said the overwhelming majority of vendors at both street fairs are cordial and friendly.
You do not see people in Manteca passing judgment on the modern-day version of traveling merchants. Their nomadic way of making a living isn’t ridiculed.
Just like the rest of u
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I know that many of us have sold in Manteca and lots of you can agree with what I have said in the past.
www.starvingvendors.com/Events_Manteca_Street_Faire_2011.html
www.mantecabulletin.com/section/38/article/26555/
Perhaps there’s a reason for the moniker ‘starving vendors’
By Dennis Wyatt
Managing Editor dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com 209-249-3519
“They had no money. They all traded in their clunkers and bought new wheels and now they got their cars repossessed. Some of them just walked around and got fatter while others socialized or played with vendor’s items. What else are they going to do? No money here or anyplace else in the valley. Economy is completely shot along 99 from Marysville to the Grapevine. Economically disadvantaged area and people just go through the motions. Tire-kickers, teenagers pushing strollers, overweight welfare moochers.... they’re all there.”
This is what a vendor – who used to sell their wares at the Crossroads Street Fair and Pumpkin Fair – thinks of the people of Manteca.
The passage is just one of many that is irking Manteca resident Dave Clements. It is posted at www.starvingvendors.com
Where do you begin?
This isn’t even a case of biting the hand that you want to feed you.
It’s utter contempt.
In the world of this vendor if you’re overweight, you’re a welfare moocher.
If you’re a teenage pushing a stroller, you’re obviously an unwed mother.
If your stuff isn’t what someone is willing to part cash for then you’re a tire kicker.
If you check out the reviews of other street fairs you will find the most poisonous venom is reserved for Manteca.
Among the other put downs the vendor D&L Creations has about Manteca:
• “Jerry Springer would love this place.”
Perhaps the vendor believes they are a candidate for “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”
• “I’m sure that they enjoyed themselves except for the kids whose parents bad-mouthed them when they asked if they could buy something. Three dollars, people. Come on, get a life.”
So I guess those so-called “overweight welfare moochers” don’t waste limited resources on $3 junk.
• “Manteca must be the Fly Capital of The World.”
Forgive the serfs out in the hinterlands who raise your food for failure to completely control the fly problem that comes from keeping the plates full for the Grey Poupon set.
Yes, times are economically challenging. But did the vendor ever stop to think the shell jewelry they sell may not be a hot seller in some places?
If they really believe this is a place that Jerry Springer would love, perhaps they might want to check his show out again. I don’t think you see very many folks on the program wearing puka shell chip necklaces.
If I recall, I’ve seen the vendors’ creations and they’re not bad. It’s just something I’m not going to shell out money to purchase mainly because I have no desire to own any.
There might be other folks with the same sentiments. I have - in recent years I might add – dropped a couple of hundred dollars buying original art creations at the Manteca street fairs.
I can tell you, though, if the vendor I bought from viewed Manteca as the folks from D&L Creations did, I’d never buy a single thing from them again.
That said the overwhelming majority of vendors at both street fairs are cordial and friendly.
You do not see people in Manteca passing judgment on the modern-day version of traveling merchants. Their nomadic way of making a living isn’t ridiculed.
Just like the rest of u
------------
I know that many of us have sold in Manteca and lots of you can agree with what I have said in the past.
www.starvingvendors.com/Events_Manteca_Street_Faire_2011.html
