As a designer of needlepoint, it should come as no surprise that most of my customers are older women.  Not all, by any means, but most.

So today I had to drop off a design and I had Josie with me.  She had a free day due to her school having a pipe leak.  They had to turn off the water till the pipe was fixed and apparently the powers that be don't think you can run a school with no bathroom facilities or drinking fountains.  Are schools today wimpy, or what?

Anyway, as the two of us pulled up to the shop, I couldn't turn into the driveway where I park because an older lady had parked beyond the drive and was making her way across it.

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After what seemed like a half an hour, I yelled "Can you move a little slower, Lady?!"  She couldn't hear me.  Because all my windows were rolled up and she was probably deaf.  But Josie heard me loud and clear.  I looked at her.

"I shouldn't yell at my customers like that," I acknowledged.  She looked at me solemnly.

"I would." she declared.  "I'd march right in there and tell her no more needlepoint for her!" 

Josie's a tough cookie.

 

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