Hick Makes a Liar Out of Val

Hick has a way of upsetting Val's applecart. If it was an actual applecart, Hick would barge into it, sending apples flying all willy-nilly, then give a short lecture on how it was Val's fault for placing her applecart in plain sight, and proceed to rebuild it into a better applecart, and fill it with twice as many apples, which he had been given by an apple-growing buddy.

We're not here to talk about apples. We're here to talk about Val's blog posts. Which won't keep the doctor away, despite reading one every day. And don't make a very good pie, nor a crunchy snack with a spoonful of peanut butter or slice of sharp cheddar.

I write my blog posts the day before, usually around noon, and set them to publish the next day at 8:00 a.m. Sure, I COULD go in to correct things, but that would eliminate the satisfaction of having them done and ready to go, with my afternoon and evening free for scratchers and TV and other innernetting.

The tale of Hick's do-gooding with rent subsidies was already in the can by Tuesday evening. Which I concluded with the revelation that Hick gets nothing extra for going to the trouble of getting the HUD paperwork done, to hopefully qualify his residents for lower out-of-pocket rent. Nor for all the other "little things" he does to make apartment life easier for the elderlies.

Hick had to come home and make a liar out of me, when the ink wasn't yet dry on that story.

"I was waiting for our monthly meeting to start, with the apartment board, and my boss called me out into the hall. He said, 'I just want you to know, before it happens, that I'm going to ask for you to get a $100 raise for the good job you've been doing here.' That made me feel really good. And then the board voted to approve it."

So now, Hick makes less than $400 a month for taking care of the apartments! That's a 25% pay increase. Shh... don't tell anyone, but I think Hick would probably do it for free.