Last week, Hick put two new tires on SilverRedO. According to Hick, they keep going flat. No wonder, with all the miles he puts on SilverRedO, ferrying people to and fro.
Now Hick is branching out. He's not just taking folks to the hospital or medical appointments.
Sunday afternoon, he got a text.
"Huh. Callie [not real name!] needs a ride."
"WHO is Callie?"
"From the Storage Units. I mean--the auction."
"Sure she is."
"Her and her husband see me at the auctions. Now they're at the one up the highway, and they've sold their car. They need a ride home."
"That's a likely story. Why would anyone do THAT? Sell their car and strand themselves."
"I don't know, Val. I guess somebody offered them a good price for it. I'll go pick them up and take them home."
I really hope they have another car. Hick is going to spend all his weekly allowance on gas. Except for that $7.56 that got paid forward to him for his Casey's lunch on Saturday...
Don't think Even Steven is forsaking Hick. Monday evening, he got a text from Back Creek Neighbor Nick.
"I had to charge his battery for him this afternoon. He had it all hooked up wrong. To the wrong terminal. Now he says he has half a cantaloupe he'll bring us. I'm telling him we don't like it."
Let the record show that Hick and I both like cantaloupe. But half a cantaloupe is not worth getting pulled into helping with something else. It's not that we're above eating other people's garbage. We just don't want to fall into a never-ending, real-life tale of: "If You Take a Neighbor's Cantaloupe..."
1/2 cantaloupe? Really? You are worth far more than that.
ReplyDeleteI DO like to think that my price is far above half-cantaloupes! Although I guess my share of it would be a quarter-cantaloupe...
DeleteI agree, half a cantaloupe isn't worth the effort. If it had been half a dozen cantaloupes, then maybe, depending on what else the person might want doing as a favour for the aforesaid cantaloupe.
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing! The last time Back Creek Neighbor Nick "dropped by" was several years ago, and he asked to come in and use my laptop! I knew who he was, and that his wife had been buying a lot of Hick's storage unit Tupperware, so I let him in. I KNOW! I'm not nearly that stupid now!
DeleteAnyhoo... Nick sat down on the couch with HIPPIE, or it might have been SHIBA before she died, and stuck a flash drive in there! I have no idea what he was doing. Maybe downloading something to take home and put on his own laptop!
So I don't want Nick over here, even if he comes bearing half a cantaloupe.
I remember my dad going down to help a one armed man cover his 1/2 acre of tomatoes during a hail storm and coming home soaked to the skin with this dilapidated box of 1/2 green tomatoes as payment. That was my dad cousin to Hick
ReplyDeleteI think your dad got the better deal! I'm sure they both did their good deed without expecting compensation.
DeleteFrom a $2 daughter to a half cantaloupe wife? I don't think so!
ReplyDeleteIndeed! That's an insult!
DeleteFunny you should mention my $2-daughterness! Last night I was looking through an old blog post for a reference, and found one where I was THE $8 DAUGHTER!
You do not know what he sliced with the knife before he whacked the cantaloupe. Politely refuse.
ReplyDeleteSo true! Maybe he licked the juice off of it, too.
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