The Urban Type Experiment

This week I was finally able to catch up with Shely for a little bit. She wasn’t using the sign but she said that she was a third of the way to her goal, which is very exciting. She was really happy to be making some progress towards getting a ticket home to Mesa. I was also able to finish up a sign for Ulysses this week. I kept missing Ulysses every time I tried to catch up with him. I was able to drop the sign off with Fred, who said he would get it to Ulysses. Fred also informed me that he will be starting a job next week, which is really exciting as well.

This week’s update is a little bit shorter than usual. I was hoping to catch up with Shely to see how things were going but I wasn’t able to track her down. Hopefully she was just avoiding the incoming thunderstorms and I can catch up with her this weekend to see if the sign helped her out at all. I was able to get two new signs finished up for Fred and get those to him. He said he really liked the new signs and thought they were even better than the last ones.

During the week I was able to finish up Shely’s sign and get it to her. Throughout the process she has been a little unsure of whether the sign will work or not but she said she be more than willing to try it out for at least a little while. We’ll see how things went this weekend when I check in with her.

This week I was able to catch up with Scottie to see how things were going with his sign. It took me a little while to find him but I eventually tracked him down in a new spot somewhat close to his previous one. Scottie said a lot of people really like the sign, including himself. He said he’s had a few people ask if he did it himself. Scottie said he told them a friend made it for him. Scottie told me that the sign has definitely been helping. He said it grabs people attention and they will come over and compliment the sign or talk with him.