Idea for Borders

I had a spontaneous idea at Borders the other night, which both worked really well, and failed spectacularly. When I was out passing out the song lists, I gave one to the baristas, and told the kid that they were welcome to request songs, too. Later, a different kid brought the list back with no less than 22 songs checked, with three of those circled with green highlighter, with "Special request for Kelsey" noted nearby.

I don't know which one was Kelsey, nor if any of them could actually hear the songs anyway, since the bar is really far away at South Coast Plaza, but it seemed like a nice way to get them "on our side", as it were. Might account for the guy coming out and asking us if we wanted a drink -- that doesn't happen very often (ever?).

Unfortunately, because of all the attention we were getting down front, and my lack of being able to see that anybody back at the counter was noticing us, I only really did one song specifically "for Kelsey": "The Way You Look Tonight". Of the other two, we accidentally did "The Last Unicorn" anyway(requested by a girl down front), and neglected "Puff", which is kinda hard to do without the requester specifically being there to justify it. Of the other 19, we happened to hit 9 of 'em.

Anyway, I like the idea/effect of at least making the offer to the kids behind the bar, and it'll probably work even better at a place with a closer bar, like, say, Yorba Linda next Saturday.