Moritz Life

Well it is 7:00pm right now, that means I have been awake now for almost 16 hours.

Yeah, I woke up at 3:30am this morning. But for a good cause. Today is Kid's Day in Fresno. The Fresno Bee (the newspaper here in Fresno) takes one day a year where it donates all proceeds from newspaper sales to the Children's Hospital here. It is a special Kid's Day edition, with a special insert and all. What different groups from many different places do is sell as many papers as they can. Friendly competitions between companies ensue, to see who can sell the most newspapers. One of the best ways that people have found to sell papers is to wait at intersections to sell to cars as they stop at a red light.

Now, when groups are competing, they obviously want the best locations (intersections). For some of the biggest and busiest intersections, people actually camp out to make sure their group has that spot. So this brings me to the reason why I was up so early this morning. I went to our intersection at 4:15am this morning to make sure our group was able to secure the location. We had a secondary intersection, by no means a major one, and I think we ended up raising about $250 (recommended price for each paper is $1).

On my way back to school (which was about 2 1/2 miles away) at 7:15am, every single intersection I drove through except one had tons of people at each corner and on the medians selling papers. Really an amazing sight. Very interesting to drive in Fresno on Kid's Day. Now I understand why people put their newspaper ontop of their dashboard after they purchase their Kid's Day edition, otherwise you get many, many people trying to sell you one.

I probably won't get to bed until 10:00 tonight, because I am playing some innertube water polo intramurals.

Happy Kids Day!