The End...

The final day came on the Friday, and by golly jee, would you know it...it was RAINING!! YAAAAAAAY!! No more sweating our unmentionables off while trying to help people out. And also we managed to wear our suits for the first time. We looked well swish, and I would have liked to have been able to wear this "costume" more, as it was our official costume of the performance, unfortunaly the climate had other ideas.

Being very, very wet, there weren't really many people around, and we weren't expecting much, and luckily we didn't get much either.

We began as always by Next, and stood there for some time with people walking past we would try and explain what we were doing and if we could have two seconds of their time to ask for a task, but they were gone on "Hello". We didn't have the boards we had carried explaining what we were doing on this day either (as they would of run in the rain) and I think this was one of the main reasons that we didn't get much of a response from the general public.

Eventually two young college kids (one was called Josh) came around and, although somewhat reluctantly, accepted us holding an umbrella for them as they walked to college. Happily we trotted down the high street behind them, taking turns holding the umbrella to shelter them from the drops of rain. It was a very long quest as we walked a good way, however, we took the oppurtunity to talk to them about what course they were doing, and what they were exactly studying ont he music course. I did enjoy this and it reminded me of the conversation we had with two other college students in the Real McCoy arcade on the first day of questing. However, the guys were kind of shy I think and were a little bit protective towards us as they didn't trust us fully, which again is something we noticed alot. They even offered us money at the end, and were suprised when we said that we didn't need money. This is probably why they were a little weirded out by us.

We stood back at Next again for some time, but constantly got people turning us down or plain ignoring us. The funniest turn down being a girl in her early twenties, who stopped when I talked to her and was interested in what we were doing...until she saw the camera was filming her and instantly shot off down the street in a blur...very strange.

End of Day thoughts:

The guys we did the quest for thought we were after money, and instead of coming out at the start and asking us if they had to pay, they waited until we had got to the college and then thought they'd HAVE to pay as we'd done the quest for them. This is the second time this has happened, the first being with the flower/marraige proposal quest on the first day. Why do people think they must pay for an act of kindness?

Not many people on the streets = not many people wanting tasks. We knew it would be a quiet day but it was REALLY quiet. No one wants to stop when there's a chance they will get wet.