Locked sheds in walled gardens

[lovingboth]

Looking for a bike on evilFB's marketplace, I discovered by accident that a local village was having a fundraising event the next day: at least 45 homes would be having 'yard sales'.

They've each paid the organisers, the friends of the local primary school, a fiver. That's got them on a map of the village with the various homes marked on it.

Great, that's worth going to!

"For information, an up-to-date version of this map and to see what people have at their yard sales please search '[village name] yard sale'".

Google knows nothing about it. It will show me property sites with sales of places with yards there, but even having the quotes doesn't help.

Doing the search on evilFB comes up with nothing either. The organisers are in a closed group, so I can't see posts there.

I eventually work out a search that does find a post that talks about the 'FB event page', but I don't find the actual event page until after we've been to it.

It takes some skill to have an event that Google knows nothing about, but it's not necessarily a skill that's useful to organisers of events like this...

We came back very happy and there were plenty of people walking around clutching purchases, but not many people came from outside the village, I think (or if they did, they didn't park where they were told to!)

Comments

[judiff]

Wow! FaceBook and like not being able to do Theory of Mind on like the back of an envelope really eats some people’s brains

(The who-has-what-knowledge part of Theory of Mind is like way easier than the what-is-X-feeling? stuff so I like suspect NeuroTypicals not bothering to do empathy rather than Spectrum-people not having time and spoons to like think and diagram it through)

[lovingboth]

The other odd thing, if you're me, was the map.

There's a big diagram of the roads in the village, and numbers 1 to 47 clearly marked around them in a vague order. (1 to 5 are on one pair of roads, for example, with 6, 7, 8 etc near by.) Those numbers are the key to a list in tiny writing which has the address of the home that's part of the sale.

So the first one we went to was 38. Which turned out to be number 3 on that particular road.

In practice, you (we) just looked at the rough position of the big number on the road to work out where we should be looking, but it would have been much easier to have that first one given a big 3 in roughly the right place, so you know instantly that you're looking for number three. Quicker for users and whoever does the map doesn't have to renumber everything when someone between two existing numbers joins in late.

Yes, there may well be another 3 on the map, but as it will be on a different road, there will be no confusion.

There way, there could be: at least three houses were down twice, hence had two numbers on the map, but obviously only one stall. (Perhaps they'd paid twice to support the cause more?)

[judiff]

Like the Artist Open Houses in the Brighton Festival (back when Artist Open Houses were possible anyway) work like that. Cos it's huge they are divided up into trails and each trail numbers the venues 1 to whatever. But each venue has like a standardised poster/banner with it's trail number is (and the name of the trail it's on, which are colour coded) so you just have to look out for the big 47 etc not the house number and the booklet also lists the house number (or name of the church or colour and rough description of the beach hut etc) of each address - and the postcode which is useful for satnavs
It would be impossible to have two numbers for the same venue.
Cos it's Brighton a lot of the venues are flats and having just the house number could be confusing.

Did the stalls like display their numbers? And was the house number and postcode given as well as the street number? Can see without that it would be like random and confusing

[lovingboth]

No stall numbers displayed, no postcodes, and I didn't spot any flats.

It's not a very large village - about 2,800 people live there.