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Hi! My name is Melinda and I have been a Mayfield Mom for over six years now and it is absolutely the best job you could ever have.  I call it my “feel good job”!

About five years ago myself and another Mom were sent to Alabama for an extremely important event.  Mayfield had worked very hard to get their products into Bruno’s Supermarkets. We were the ones chosen for this mission….we should have been afraid but we were pretty new to this job and a little too naive...

So here we go, two Mayfield Moms along with their two teenage daughters on a road trip. We traveled from East Tennessee to Birmingham, Alabama for a sampling at Bruno’s. I printed off our directions from mapquest and we were off. Of course, we didn’t realize there was an Alabama football game that day and that was our first obstacle. Really, driving in five lanes of traffic was our first obstacle. We had stopped for breakfast before we got into Birmingham and Mom # 2 had a belly ache and was in dire need of a toilet. She finally ended up going into a bar downtown with my daughter as a body guard. They laugh about the pink shag carpet on the steps and in the bathroom.

Back in the van and we are off to Bruno’s with about 45 minutes to spare. We were feeling the confindence - we can do this special event!! We find the store and we're even a little early. We run in the door toting all our sampling gear, ask the manager where he wants us to set up and he looks at us like we are crazy. (WE ARE!) "Just in the back near the freezers," he says. 

So, we are talking with an employee about the concert that is scheduled for this store while we sample.  The teenager's name was Aaron Carter, and he was very popular at the time. The employee says, "Oh, that is at the other Bruno’s across town." OH MY GOSH!  We are at the wrong store! I know we tore our table down in 30 seconds and literally ran out the front door. How stupid can we be?  At the wrong store for this “very special important event we know the two of you will be perfect for”!

We did get directions on the way out the door and we did arrive at the store only about 20 minutes late. No one was in the store anyway, everyone was outside watching the concert.  We prayed all the way home that we wouldn’t get fired, we knew our careers as “Mayfield Moms” was going to be short lived.  Actually, nothing was ever said about our little mix-up.