I thought about the altenative of leaving the boat cover with "mischievous eyes" and the playout. Fill out a ticket - one for you and one for the boat shop. Boat shop files theirs, maybe. You have yours eaten by Henny! There's a problem! And when did he say it was going to be ready for pickup? You make a return trip two days later to just check and find the owner can't check without the ticket he gave you. (All hypothetical of course as I'm sure this proprietor would have remembered you at a glance. Well, maybe not if he had instead become a ticket writer/giver/checker type, where only the scrap of paper mattered, not the customer's face.)
I'm betting the charge would have been $50 with a 3-day wait in ticket checker land.
Thanks Gary! There is so much more I could have shared, but left out for brevity's sake. A mountain of cigarettes in an ashtray....the owner, never did catch his name, is turning the business over to one of his employees soon, another employee was "in the can" and couldn't help Dave, swears drifted to the front room while the canvas was sewed. Real people. Real life. We showed each other fish pictures on our phones. :) This song from Miranda Lambert has been at the forefront of my mind the last few days....Enjoy!
Great read!!
I thought about the altenative of leaving the boat cover with "mischievous eyes" and the playout. Fill out a ticket - one for you and one for the boat shop. Boat shop files theirs, maybe. You have yours eaten by Henny! There's a problem! And when did he say it was going to be ready for pickup? You make a return trip two days later to just check and find the owner can't check without the ticket he gave you. (All hypothetical of course as I'm sure this proprietor would have remembered you at a glance. Well, maybe not if he had instead become a ticket writer/giver/checker type, where only the scrap of paper mattered, not the customer's face.)
I'm betting the charge would have been $50 with a 3-day wait in ticket checker land.
Thanks Gary! There is so much more I could have shared, but left out for brevity's sake. A mountain of cigarettes in an ashtray....the owner, never did catch his name, is turning the business over to one of his employees soon, another employee was "in the can" and couldn't help Dave, swears drifted to the front room while the canvas was sewed. Real people. Real life. We showed each other fish pictures on our phones. :) This song from Miranda Lambert has been at the forefront of my mind the last few days....Enjoy!
All kinds of kinds...https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=gB8l5-174TU&feature=emb_logo
Nice writing!
Thanks Manu!