We Are Community 214
To say that this was an interesting week would certainly be an understatement.
Monday began with the service for a friend and neighbor at St Mary’s Cemetery. As I was leaving the cemetery, got a phone call that the AC would not come on at the PCCC where the funeral dinner was being held. Pulled over to answer the phone and to call for help with the furnace. While I was parked on the side of the road a young man approached my car. I assumed he was there to see if I needed help. I assumed wrong.
When I got back to Plymouth went to my store to call the company who had installed the AC at the PCCC. When I walked into my store, my furnace was running. It continued to run even when I turned it off. This was pretty unsettling but my science trained mind also said that if my store had a problem and the PCCC located right behind my store had a problem and that the transformer was located between the buildings then it was not our problem but that of Ameren. Called Ameren. Got a “nice” lady who repeatedly told me it was not their problem as we still had lights on, she was wrong but I am sure that she will never admit that.
Went to a neighbor’s home with the Ameren information and a man called Ameren. The truck was there promptly and the source of the problem was a tree located behind my store which now has a lot fewer branches.
While at my store one day this week, I got a call from a roofing company in Indiana. As my number is a matter of public record, thought nothing about it until he said they were going to look at my bar roof. Told him I did not have a bar and asked if he meant Pop A Top Again and he said yes. Told him I was surprised as they had a contractor in the family and that they had a membrane roof. He said that was the problem-it was coming loose. Asked if he could look at my roof while they were there. I checked with the owner of the bar to find that none of this was true so realized that I had given them my name, the name of the bar and confirmed my phone number. Not good. Called the number back and told the gentleman that I realized he had lied to me.
The weather was not nice this week. I don’t like storms and have several weather radios. Spent some time downstairs in my chair two mornings as the weather radios repeatedly sounded for our area.
Week eventually improved! Friday, I had a B&B guest as we needed to set up at a swap meet in Macomb at 6 am. When we got there, someone was telling people they had to move their stands as we could not use the south side of Chandler Park. Seems like they should have told someone that sooner. Luckily, I had not started to unload and moved to the east side and set up but felt so sorry for those who were forced to move everything. Stoneware is heavy!
Nice show. Good friends and even sold some things. Went to Hy-Vee for lunch and they had lovely orchids at a really great price so spent some of my birthday gift card on an orchid that I will enjoy for months.
Hope you have a great week. Perhaps you should not be as trusting as I and not assume that someone approaching your car is there to help you or that someone on the phone is telling you the truth and not just trying to get information. Enjoy watching the Olympics. The coverage has been great and the human-interest stories have been so interesting. Scatter Kindness and Love.