How Fun is it To Sneak Into An Amway Function?

I’m sure everyone wants to know what kind of curious person would want to attend a personal tour behind the scenes at an Amway learning conference!

Ha ha!

My contact who is friends with the son of a friend of mine wasn’t available on Friday night so Joecool and I decided to settle for the Saturday shift. I won’t say what my new best buddy job is but he can pretty much go anywhere in the Bren Events Center and no one will question him so we tag along behind the scenes. At one point he takes a phone call and steps away from us. We’re backstage but not behind the stage and not near any of those award winners who are going up on the stage to speak the masses. I can hear the crowd screaming or maybe they were cheering during the training sessions. Hard to tell at these Amway events. This Amway official in a suit practically jumps out of the shadows on top of us. He’s staring at us. Or maybe he was smiling. Kind of hard to tell with these distributors.

“Who are you?” The Amway person asked.

“I’m Cheryl and this is Steve.” I said.

Apparently satisfied with that answer the official backs off and I don’t see him again. Probably some volunteer Platinum who’s been assigned to patrol the hallways for excited distributors who want to rush the Diamonds and assure them of their undying love and devotion.

That’s understandable!

A little later I see a clipboard lying on a table in an empty room. I pick it up and carry it around trying to look official but mostly I hang onto it cause its got some kind of map on it that I can probably use to find our way around. Our contact is still with us when we walk down a hall. Keep in mind that this area is not accessible to the distributors. You gotta be a Diamond or involved in some kind of volunteer role or be employed by Bren. Gotta keep the security up and unauthorized personnel out of this area.

Then my friend stops us outside a closed door. There’s some talking going on. Men. But we can’t hear what they’re saying. Just a few words coming through every now and then. He actually puts his ear to the door and is practically killing himself laughing. He says sounds like 3 of them in there discussing their speeches. Joecool says it’s probably their first time to a function. What else do Diamonds talk about? Then this woman comes flying around the corner. She’s in this gown and looks as if she should be at an Oscar party. Was she lost? I thought about it too late but afterwards I thought I should have helped her but she seemed to know where she was. Have no idea if sensed we were just a couple of buddies sneaking around backstage! She puts her hands on her hips and stares at us and in an icy tone goes excuse me I’m going in there. She’s upset over something all right but for whatever reason she doesn’t seem to care that we’re trying to hear what’s going on in that room. My contact says he’s going in there too because it sounds like someone might need help and he wants to make sure that no one is in danger. The lady tells him politely to mind his own business she can deal with it whatever it is? He goes in anyway and Joecool and I are left standing there. We back off a bit. Can’t hear anything going on in there anyway now that an outsider is in there. He comes out after two or three minutes, shuts the door, and shakes his head and mutters something about these being the biggest bunch of newbies he’s ever had to deal with.

That was about as exciting as it got. Have more stuff and its good Amway stuff but not too exciting and not really my thing to blog about. That was the only day we got to see backstage and we didn't stay too long. It’s too life draining spending time anywhere away from where the distributors are. Me and Steve were planning to go to lunch on Sunday but something came up and that was the end of it.