When The Second Day Came...

We began the second day with a smile on our faces and the sun burning a beautiful hole through the o-zone layer once again. Being a Saturday we had high hopes, as this is the busiest day that Exeter high street sees in the week and busy = lots and lots of people. Which we believed would mean lots and lots of quests...How wrong we were...

We began in the opening at Princesshay by Next once again, we waited around for a little but then a lovely young lady who was handing out leaflets for the Thai food resturant "Tiger Bills" came over to give us a menu, and the blah blah of "Two meals for £6.95". Before she could hand over the menu we pulled some kind of knightly Jedi mind trick on her and managed to convince her to give us the task of handing out menus, and basically helping her out. She couldn't hand over the menus fast enough (probably because she gets paid for how many she can get rid of) and we ventured up the high street with menus in tow. I must now say that my menu handing out skills were far superior than Nick's, probably because I've handed out flyers for a job myself quite often (although Nick failed to believe that if you point a flyer/menu at either a man's penis region, or a woman's breast area they instantly take it as a protectional reflex). Once all of my menus were gone Nick took another 18 hours to get rid of his (a possible over-exaggeration) and the quest was wonderfully fulfilled. I think I was more successful with this task because of my boyish good looks and kind demeanor, whereas Nick did resemble some kind of serial killer (especially when he was wearing aviators).

We carried on down the high street to a place we had had success before, just outside Tesco Express. Here we ended up doing a quest for a friend of a friend where she wanted us to do handstands. Unfortunatly, as neither of us could do a handstand it ended up being a team effort where I placed my hands on the ground and Nick raised my legs for a few moments....it's still a handstand!! I think we were both a little annoyed about this task, as we had purposely avoided Cathedral Green as we felt people wanted us to entertain them more when we were there, but obviously people want to be entertained wherever they are.

We carried on down the high street (towards the Real McCoy arcade) passing the Mint Methodist church as we did. Here they were having some kind of May fete and were just closing up for the day, packing things up. We did walk past at first, but then stopped and agreed that being Knights one of the codes is to help the church, and what better way then to help them pack up the most British of things...a fete?! We went over to them, explained what we were doing, and I cannot explain how happy they were. They said we were "answering a prayer" by helping them out, and I was actually touched at how thankful they were. But I feel they were also shocked that two men like us would actual help them, which is sad. Nick took a fold up table, and I took the WORLD'S HEAVIEST box full of books. Seriously, with the heat I thought I was gonna pass out once we had taken it up a flight of stairs.

With that quest finished we went back to our usual standing spot, where a woman approached us with a quest. However, it was outside the city walls (although she was convinced the hospital was only a block away...crazy lady) with dehydration hitting and our tummys rumbling, we decided to end it there.

End of day thoughts:

Even though the high street was absoloutly packed with people we didn't really get anyone coming up to us asking us to do stuff. The quests that we ended up doing involved us going up to people and asking them if we could do anything to help. I think this was because on a Saturday people go into town with the idea that they want to shop, and nothing will stop them doing it. Most people on a Saturday have been working all week, and maybe only have one day (maybe two with Sunday) to do/get everything that they needed to get for that week, and people didn't have the time to stop, or at least that's what they were saying.

We got less people asking us to do acts of a nudity/sexual nature, which compared to the first day was pretty amazing. Many because the people that were around on Saturday were of a more mature nature? Hmmmmm.....

It felt really good helping out the more elderly people at the church fete. I'm not a religious man in any sense of the word, you probably couldn't find a bigger atheist, however it just felt like a was doing a good deed by taking a very, very heavy box up a set of stairs instead of an older person having to drag it up there themselves. I think if the situation arises again I may just offer my services again.