19th February 2018
Back up to Hudsonville to replace the items sold. The small table that I repaired was still drying in the back of the truck along with a dresser that Kelli had repainted. The weather was terrible, rain was melting away the snow, which is a improvement, but it make driving tricky. Once at the booth we saw the devastation, when one big piece goes, its controllable, when two or more goes it’s like “We’re closing down”.
This is the opportunity to move everything around, yippee!
I brought in the small table, we were fraughted with the dresser, because the back door to the truck had jammed. Panic ensued, it was too large to get out through the back doors. With a struggle we established that a corner of the blanket covering the dresser had wedged in the door lock. A sharp tug and a lift of the door solved the problem.
Once the move around was finished, the booth space looked good again.
We stopped off for a coffee on the way back. The Starbucks was a small booth inside of the Family Fare supermarket, when we got there the place was deserted except for a sign that said that it was closed for a short time. We stood around dumbstruck, re-reading the sign just to make sure we read it correctly. Just then a guy turned up and started switching off the lights. He saw that we were waiting, and although he was closing for the day, he served us. He was friendly, he had a mop of green hair and an armful of tattoos, not the kind of person you expect to find serving in a Starbucks, but he made a good cup of coffee.
Another Lifetime to go 