A Sign of the Hick

Hick took his beloved sign to his SUS2.5 on Thursday! That's a day earlier than he told me he wanted it. Said the guy would be there, to get it coated with polyurethane. And that he needed to put two holes in it, to hang it. I asked where he was going to put it.

"I cain't hang it on my walls."

"Why, is there some rule? I thought you already had things hanging on your walls."

"I cain't, because of the garage door."

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"Because when I close up, the garage door comes down over the walls."

"Still, I don't get it."

"You cain't understand nothin'! I want the sign on my door."

"Why can't you put it on your door?"

"Because, Val, the garage door comes down!"

"Not while you're there doing business!"

"I have to hang it on an arm. To swing out."

"Not getting it. Is the sign supposed to poke out? Perpendicular?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. Here. Let me draw a picture!"

Hick scribbled on the back of an envelope, with a bunch of numbers already on it. Of course I couldn't tell what he drew.

"Not helping me."

"Val! Look at the clock over there! That's my door. And look at our door. That's my garage door. The sign will be LIKE THIS!"

I could not understand Hick's gesticulations.

"Do you mean it's poking out?"

"It's on an ARM, Val! It will swing out!"

"Okay. So it's perpendicular. That's what I asked."

"It will be on a bar that will swing out. Then I'll swing it back, so the garage door can come down."

"I think I get it now."

Do you? I guess the sign will be hanging on a bar, poking out from Hick's door, so people walking by will see it. The polyurethane coating will make it waterproof. The bits of color will attract attention. It seems to be the right kind of sign to appeal to Hick's outdoorsmen kind of customers.

Maybe Hick can get a picture when he has the sign hanging.