Changes

     Okay, so yell at me, I know it has been a long time since my last post. But in my defense a lot of drama has happened in the last 2 weeks.  Of course most all of it is centered around the corn maze.
     To kind of get you up to speed, I was asked to be the manager of the corn maze this year by the oldest son of the owners of the land. I was told that I would be in charge of planning, designing and staffing the maze. They would help with construction, the cutting of the maze and anything else I needed. So I said yes. The wheels started flying! I started organizing everything. By the end of July we had our first meeting and even started building some props.  Here is where I should have known I was in for it. I never could get them to commit to another planning meeting. Finally in late August we called another meeting. Fewer people showed up this time (to be expected since there was such a long time between meetings) and he and his wife seemed totally uninterested. Now during this time I have been working on finding just the right props, costumes, lights, and anything else I could come up with to pull this off. Then I get a phone call to come help build the back drops for the scenes. I got excited because finally some real work was gonna happen.
      When I got out there he was so excited about showing me what we were going to be building for the "backdrops". It was a ROOM! Sixteen feet long, eight and a half feet tall and who knows how wide. I about fell over. This is supposed to be a corn maze, not a haunted house. He couldn't understand why I just stood there looking stunned. Then he proceeded to tell me that he and his wife had went shopping and got all of the props that we were going to need. I really got concerned then. Everything was bloody, gory and cheap looking. Totally the opposite way we were wanting to go. They had movie monster costumes, electronic zombies, head spinning babies and so much more. The whole time I just sat there thinking about the hours of work that we had already put in designing scenes to look more realistic, more organic to the area. We were going to use local lore to fill the maze to go along with what the owners were wanting, now all of that is out the window.
     Then to top it all off they still expect me to staff the whole thing and come up with more people. I don't even know how many scenes they are putting in the maze. I just know that it was cut ridiculously long and there is no way some of the people that I got to do this are going to want to be any part of it now.