The Old Grouch has discovered E-Bay. So far he’s collected a talking fish, an Elvis bust and the best of the Dean Martin show on VHS. I walked him through the process the first few times. Now he’s out there alone in the cyber swap meet, sifting for treasures.
About eleven thirty this morning I watched […]

The highway that the dealership is located on is also home to a dozen other car lots. Mitsubishi, Buick, GMC, Lincoln, BMW and a rash of high line used car dealers line the street. Tempting targets for petty crime. For the last few weeks we’ve been in the middle of a minor crime wave. […]

There was a strip club located about two miles from the Ford store. We were practically neighbors, so there was some mutual exchange of trade going on between the salesmen and the ladies at the “Gentlemen’s Club”. Some salesmen spent most of their off time conducting research of the female anatomy. A big buffoon named […]

A customer came in yesterday. Nice enough guy. Quiet. He spoke no more than necessary. But something happened that gave me the uber willies. I noticed he had five little warts on his right arm. Something was peculiar about their placement. They were arranged in a semi-circle.
I spent most of the morning with him […]

Nothing much has happened at the lot this last week. Salespeople are settling in for the long winter hibernation. Inventory is piling up as the public ignores all the shiny new models. I took two weeks off writing to recharge the creative battery.
But now I’m back dammit. And for the first order of business […]

The dealership has been running ads for salespeople this week. It sounds great.
Earn one hundred thousand dollars a year. Weekly bonuses. Car allowance. Forty hour work week. Have fun, make money. It was written by our Colonel Sanders look-a-like.
A small knot of squawking salesmen gathered around the newspaper this morning.
“Hey,“ one […]