wrangling for dummies

Or herding cats or joining the flat earth society.  Trying to sell produce on a Monday in August can seem like the aforementioned.  No one, buyer or seller wants to commit, because with business sluggish at best, buyers feel they can't win unless someone is willing to consign shipments to them.  Meanwhile, the sellers feel everyone is trying to put one over on them and the best strategy is to grab their marbles and go home before the neighborhood bully takes them away.  To reconcile these to attitudes is a Sisyphean task at best and usually, you wind up under the bolder at the bottom of the hill.  The only thing that you can hope is tomorrow the coolers will be full on one side and empty on the other and business will resume.  Que sera, sera......