May 8, 2009

It's time for another installment of life in the hardware store, featuring me. We had a police incident today. An old man who has some affiliation with the cafe two doors down from the store, accidentally hit a parked car as he was leaving the parking lot. The old man was quite oblivious to the crash and continued on his way. The parked car belonged to a young man and as young men are prone to do, he overreacted. He chased down the old guy's car and then verbally threatened the old man. For reasons that are not clear to me, the old man took refuge on a bench inside our store while the younger fellow stood watch outside. The old man asked the manager of our store to call the police for him. The young guy also called the police to report a hit and run accident. Accidents on private property are not police matters in Hooterville, but I'm guessing that the young guy didn't know that. Anyway, the police showed up and oversaw the exchange of insurance information and made sure the old guy got safely on his way. It takes a long time, sometimes forever for young guys to realize that it's just a car. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky

4 comments:

Reya Mellicker said...

I believe drama is one side effect of the hormonal imperatives of youth. This is quite a perfect intergenerational fable, Merle.

Wish you were here to enjoy the green.

Bella Rum said...

I never knew the life of a hardware man could be so exciting.

By the way, you can get Verizon to turn off your text feature so you won't receive text messages. That's what we did because we have no interest in it....never even done it before.

Barbara said...

My father at age 86 unknowingly hit someone's parked car. A policeman saw it happen and kindly followed him home to let him know about it. Older people are concentrating so hard on just operating the car that sometimes they are oblivious to what's around it. I think that's a pretty good indication that it might be time to stop driving.

Megan said...

Never a dull day, is there?