One of my personal challenges is that I am very allergic to scents. I thought I had specified in my application that I needed to be far away from food or scented products, but apparently I missed that. I knew we were across the aisle from food. I could live with that. What I could not live with was being right next to a booth of heavily scented soaps and bath products.
I tried. I really did. But within 30 minutes my eyes were swelling and my voice was cracking. I went in search of the show organizer and pleaded my case. I told him I knew that it was very late to be requesting a change but if there was anything at all he could do?
Bless his heart, he managed to rearrange things and we swapped booths with another exhibitor.
It took a couple of hours before things got settled but we have all day tomorrow to finish setting up. Today we got the booth structure up and quit at 6 pm. We will go back tomorrow morning and set out the textiles. It should not take more than an hour, and then we will take the rest of the afternoon easy.
And I will make sure from now on to specify ‘not near scented products’!