6/14/2019
Well, today’s SIMH just about takes the cake! I mean, why would I wake up roll over to get out of bed with a Dean Martin song in my head? and it’s a “tango” besides!!. The title is “Sway” —“other dancers may be on the floor, but my eyes can see only you…” Bits and pieces kept coming into my mind till I looked it up. I looked up a video of a couple dancing from a 10 year old movie, but set to “Sway” with Ol’ Dean singing his song. It is an intoxicating song, lyrics and music. Wait, or was Dean the one that was intoxicated? (That’s a joke, folks. Don’t speak ill of the dead.) Anyway, as you can see, the phenomena of a SIMH goes on.
I mentioned about ten days ago that our partner, Chuck came through on his way to the coast for vacation. He did come back through Tuesday evening, spent some time revisiting our 10 day old thoughts, he slept and left about 4:15 Wednesday morning. We enjoyed both visits and believe them to be profitable. Now to set our sails to the wind, our sites being on the good performance of all the stores which carry our name, both existing and the new ones which are appearing on the horizon—More To Come..
Remembering and harkening back to some education, I am reminded of a very boring semester aimed at learning the transport tariffs of rail carriers and over the road carriers. Yes, I actually engaged in that end of industry briefly in 1964, while in the employe of Hamilton Cosco, Inc., of Columbus, IN. They transferred me to the “traffic dept.” for the purpose of me learning what I believe was the beginning of training me to become a territory sales rep for them. (What they didn’t remember to do was pay me enough to live on and raise a family.) My job in traffic was very boring and mundane, just a job which had to be done.
I didn’t mean to “spice up” the department, but I did so by sending a boxcar full of Bridge Sets (table and four chairs) to Portland, ME which was supposed to be sent to Portland, OR! (The surprise was they didn’t fire me!) It took a while to get that one straightened out. I can’t remember how many sets a boxcar held, but I can tell you it was a chunk of the inventory!!.
I’ve often wondered what life would have been like if I had stayed with Cosco Furniture (which became Cosco Home Furnishings) and became one of the territory reps for them—think anything would have turned out differently? We’ll never know since there really is not alternate lives to live!
Several years after I left that company as I was getting near 30 yrs. old, I met Mr. Dick Ellsworth (Cosco’s national sales manager) in an elevator at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. We spoke and asked about each other’s careers. He said to look him up if I came back to Columbus for any reason, but I never did go there again with any spare time. He was a very fine gentleman and would have been a great boss. Every man who worked for him, liked him. Hmm, the wonder of it all.
“Coffee With Dad” day at Sarah’s store was fun. Not a lot of people stopped in, but enough to do it again. I guess someone besides me should make the assessment as to its worth, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Sarah’s announcement of it said I had free coffee, free snacks (of one of ButterSnobBaking’s specialties), and free advice! I gave away the coffee and the snacks, but no one wanted the advice! That’s okay, I can just add it to all that other advice I have and next time I can offer more! Yeah, that’s it! That’ll go over real good…next time!
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