Open Wardrobes

It just goes to show you never know what might happen. This morning, while working the SPCO's morning coffee concert at the Ordway, my co-worker Jackie and I were wondering what was going on in Rice Park right outside, as there were tents set up and all sorts of people about. Before long a woman came in and let us know that they were going to be shooting a commercial for Kashi Foods today... and they needed extras around 11 AM. So at that time, during the first half of the concert, Jackie and I popped over, but no luck, they were still setting everything up. So just before noon we tried again, along with another co-worker, Mary Kay, but no one seemed to know where we should go. Jackie and Mary Kay decided to head back to the office, but I hung around a little while longer and found the woman who had told us about the commercial and at last figured out where I was supposed to go and filled out my release form. They weren't ready to start shooting yet, so I grabbed a quick lunch back in the office and did some work, then went back over at 12:30 when they were supposed to start. (Fortunately they had a heated tent set up for all of us "people pulled off the street" to wait in.) After awhile someone took us back over to the back to get ready and we spent about a half hour walking back and forth in front of cameras as passerbys who were wondering why there were green, red, and yellow peppers stuck in the snow (for such there were). But 1:30 it was all over and I went back to work. And if I'm lucky I will actually appear in a TV commercial (a first for me). So, you just never know.