Day 135 -- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Today was set up day for the CASA garage sale.  I was on the job by 7:45 a.m. and got home at about 8:30 p.m.  As most volunteer things seem to go, there were not many of us there to do the work.  We had tons of things to get from the storage facilities to the site, unload, unpack, sort, display and then price.  It was brutal, but for a good cause.  One of the particularly aggravating things that occurred is that the church in which the garage sale is being held, told all their employees they could go ahead and come in and shop on set up day.  We couldn't very well put up a fuss because we were getting the rooms for free for two days--so while we were still unpacking, people were wanting to know prices and suddenly there were more and more people coming in because staff called friends, and on and on.  They were in the way, wanting to negotiate on prices before we had were even ready for the event and it was just a hinderance to our work.  At the end of the evening, I had put aside a few small items that I wanted to buy which added up to $10 so I got my billfold out of my purse which was tucked in behind the door by where we were taking money--and found that over $100 was gone from my billfold.  It had been there when I left for lunch because I got out a $1 bill to pay for a drink.  So while in a church, with church staff and their friends coming in and shopping when we were not ready for them, someone managed to get into my purse and wallet and help themselves to all my cash.  I was so discouraged and angry when I got home--my first time to be robbed and in a sense, right under my nose.