ALTAMONT – The Altamont Fair has something for everyone: rides, deep-fried delectables, live music, livestock, exhibits of sorts, and investment advice. Walk along the edge of the grounds and you’ll find all sorts of vendors not normally associated with a fair, people trying to proselytize; trying to sell gutter protection, beds, Tupperware, vacuums, and bathroom remodeling services.

Brandon Akey was standing in front of a mockup of a bathroom tub outside of the 4-H building on Tuesday. He works as a welder, but his boss also own a Bath Fitter franchise, a bathroom remodeling company.

For a couple of months now, he has been trying to attract fair-goers in various locations to upgrade their dingy bathrooms, he said.

The setting is a little unusual, he concedes, but people for the most part are pleasant when blowing him off. They will tell him they don’t own a home, or, “Oh no, we don’t take showers,” he said.

He’s done four or five events, he said, and he’s made a few sales but none in the few hours on tuesday that he’d been at the Altamont Fair. “I have asked people and I have got a lot of no’s,” he said.

He is OK with rejection, he said. “I have the gift of gab; I can talk to people,” Akey said. “I don’t take it personally.”

But there is the occasional person who stops by and does need a bathroom makeover, Akey said, “They will say, ‘My bathroom looks like a disgrace and I see you guys everywhere; I might as well stop by and see what it’s all about.’”

That’s the key: Be everywhere.