a big trend in toronto was night-time witnessing. we would arrange car-loads or van-loads (of course, the more the better) around 10:00pm. We would cruise around the city and hit any all-night gas stations, convenience stores, etc. we could find, ranging all over the city, considering any territory to be fair game. Between driving around, waiting your turn to do a call, and waiting for the customer-level to drop down to an acceptably low number, we could count a LOT of time with little actual witnessing, working until 3 or 4 in the morning. Some people even conducted studies every week like this. Of course, if someone got in on a study or, as was frequently the case, had a long conversation with a bored attendant, it was free time for everyone else in the van.
The breaks in this case would be at a late-night greasespoon for souvlaki that we all arranged to meet up at. As more people caught on to this free ride for hours, the late-night territory became over-saturated and i quickly got out of it. Once you started going to gas station booths and starting into your introduction, the attendant would interrupt you, reach down and pull out a pile of magazines from previous visits. The COs started telling the RPs to stop doing late-nite work outside of their territory.
Altho no longer a pioneer of course, im pretty sure this trend has died out by now. i dont think the current pioneers are as ambitious as we were.
mox