Day Two, Sam's Entry

The first person to approach us yesterday was a cop, who basically just wanted to check out what we were doing. We were at the same place as we were yesterday (the corner of Drexel and Main across from Graeter's), and he said that they'd been getting calls about us, but since we weren't blocking the sidewalk too much, were technically in the public domain, and weren't selling anything, we could keep doing it. A bit later, a cop car came by and one of the officers in it raised his fist in a sort of "rock on" or "solidarity" fashion. What this means, basically, is that the cops in Bexley like us. So if we get kicked out just about everywhere else, we'll have someplace to go back to.

Yesterday was also our first day of filming, with the camera on a small tripod balanced on our two chairs so it was just a bit below our eye level. We also didn't get as many questions today (10 approaches, as opposed to 23 on the first day), and I think a big part of it is the fact that the camera was present. But of the people that stopped by, more of them had conversations rather than just a quick question. Among the people who stopped was a lady whose daughter graduated from CA about ten years ago, an Italian guy named Joe who I assume worked at Giuseppe's, the restaurant we were in front of, and he also gave us free drinks, as well as Lora, the Swiss girl who first met us yesterday by running her bike into the small fence around the tree we were next to.

Today we'll try to do this at Creekside in Gahanna, but we're both kind of expecting to get kicked out. It's a new place, and very tightly controlled, so we might run into some problems. Still worth a shot, though.