It was 8:30 AM on January 4th in the middle of
the biggest snowstorm in a while. Having
been given orders not to get involved with shoveling snow, I reached for my
phone book and called the guy I used last year for snow removal.
I dialed and no one answered, however I was offered an
opportunity to leave a message and so I did, confident that my driveway would
be cleared sometime after the storm.
TLW (The Little Woman) was home since the Wanna-Be-Bank and
Truss Company was closed due to the storm. All day long she wondered as I did
if the message was conveyed to come and plow my driveway.
“Should you call and make sure he is coming?”
“Nah, he is probably busy with plowing to call back. He’ll
come.”
It is suddenly 5:30 PM, I call once again and get the
answering machine again. I hang up.
Now I’m worried that he isn’t coming, and now I have to go
out there to shovel. I will give him until 9:00 PM, then go out and start to
shoveling so TLW can get out in the morning.
“Leave the front door open so we can see when he arrives!”
said TLW. I do and around 8:50 PM I look out the front door through the storm
door these headlights appear and this person is walking up to the door.
Me: “It’s HIM!”
No, it’s not. It is an angel looking to make money.
I greet who I think is the shovel-man but he has a Hispanic
accent which comes with few words of discernable English. Sweeping his hand
across his body indicating the snow that is drifted high and wide, he asks me
if I’m interested in his shoveling my driveway. I say yes and he asks me how
much I will pay him. I ask him how much he wants. We discuss with me mostly
doing the talking, I check with TLW and we hire him and his buddy.
This guy shoveled what usually takes my usual guy over 40
minutes just 15! I told him to make sure the next time it snows to look me up.
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