I have been organizing and running the local gun show to fund raise for the local gun club for the past nine years.
For the first 7 years there was no problem getting volunteers out to move tables and work at the show. I have never taken a nickle out of the cash the show generates and probably spend about $200 every year on expenses I do not claim.
Every one was happy with the show I organized Sunday but of 300 club members only 2 stepped up help move and place tables.
We borrowed tables from 2 community halls and one town recreation board to make 120 tables to move.
On Sunday the show ended at 3:30, Three gun club members and myself were folding table legs and stacking the tables by the door. About 3/4 of the tables were stacked by 5:00 pm I had 80 tables to move back to their owners that evening and at 5:00 pm just when it was time to load them and return them to the community halls I had borrowed them from the club president said " I have to leave and have supper with my wife." His buddy said " I have to go too , I'm driving him". At that point I felt just like the guy who's girlfriend told him "We can always be friends". That left me and my friend Mike to haul the tables. Mike is 51 and recovering from a heart attack and heart surgery from two years ago. I need to have both knees replaced and may need a hip replacement in the next two years. I got home at 9:00 pm Sunday night and I just finished hauling the last of the tables and doing the clean up an at 5:00 pm on Monday - all by my self.
Apparently the club doesn't need the $6000.000 raised by the gun show so there is no point in doing it any more.
To add insult to injury two years ago I set up the application for a $40,000.00 government grant to improve the range and made sure the club got it.
Sometimes it just does not pay to do anything nice for anyone.