Texting

The wonderful thing about texting is it can be done surreptitiously. I worked Saturday. My sister would be taking Trevor to his 2:00 game. Tom had Corvallis and a nieces wedding to go to. He was booked all day also. Riley would be updating me on the game.





It rained, it poured. My sister took her youngest child back to the house, leaving Riley and my niece, who is of similar age, with money for the snack shack, to watch the game. I am not sure it had clicked what she had volunteered for until she was in the thick of delivering Trevor to warm ups two hours before the game even started. Then she thought it would only last an hour. A football game is at least two hours.





Had the day been lovely, it would have been fine. But within 15 minutes she was soaked to the skin and so was her child. Trevor was loving it. The field is grass so they get really wet and dirty. Its still really cool to get as filthy as possible and have an excuse for it.





Riley and my niece tucked themselves under the awning of the snack shack and proceeded to sample every candy and pop available for the next few hours. My parents arrived and brought their Chinese pug, Hoover vacuum. Riley proudly walked him around the track. The dog was loving all the activity.





Meanwhile, I was at work. My sister had swung by earlier on her way to my house. I had my niece pick out a pair of shoes. I bought them for her with my family discount. She picked out a pair of UGGs. Did you know that the company is in California and the shoes are made in China. It is just a very successful name and advertising gimmick. They are very comfortable shoes though. The new slippers are really cool looking and padded. We also sell the Haflinger slippers, which are even better.



My boss sent me home with a pair of Haflinger slippers as a gift. I fell in love with them within 10 minutes of removing my work shoes. They feel like a massage when you walk in them.


Customers came in before I could finish with my sister. I will have to have her come back on another day, so I can get her a pair of shoes. I told them it was early presents. They can get socks from me at the holidays. Though the socks we sell are really expensive and high end also. We carry the brands Thorlo, Wigwam, Sugar free, and smartwool. $11 to $22 a pair.


I get them for the employee discount of cost plus shipping.





Riley agrees to text me highlights of the game, which means that he sends me the score periodically. Trevor played a lot in the first half, and some in the second. Coach has to make sure everyone gets playing time.The texts started arriving at work. The opponents scored first but missed the extra point. At least I assume so as the score was 6 to 0. Then we scored 6. It stayed six six until third quarter when we scored again, 12 to 6 now. Riley's texts were short, just the scores. The final score was 12 to 6.





This game the offense made the scores. Last week coach said the boys won by shear luck as all the scoring was mostly done by the defense running back interceptions and fumbles. He had not been happy with his offense. This game the touch downs were offense doing their job. We find out at Monday night practice how it really went down. I wish parents were still allowed, but coach asked at the beginning of the season that the cute chick fan club that was following practices and the parents stay off the field.





My mom said Trevor played hard. Not being there to watch, I have no idea how hard he really played. He said he played a lot, and hard. His gear was filthy. He left a big pool of water in my front hall where he left his pads. I came home at 6:30 and made dinner for everyone after mopping up the hall. The grand parents had not stayed. No one had delivered the message that I had wanted them to swing by my work so I could get them shoes at the family discount.





Since I was stuck at work, and they were going to be in the neighborhood, I had thought that might have been fun to buy them shoes. They are the kind of clients we get regularly. I had been able to get my niece shoes just by luck. She is a size 6 shoe, barely into adult sizes.





The day had been full of ebbs and flows of customers. People come in spurts, slow and steady. It ended as a pretty good sale day. Not like it used to be three years ago, but the rule of thumb is that the company covers its costs plus some if we clear $1000 each day. We did much better than $1000, so it was a good day. I told my parents the days I work, so they could stop by another time. Many of our customers are our best sales people. They come in and are so pleased with the shoes that they recommend the place to friends and expand our business pool by word of mouth.





These days people are very frugal with their money. Business is down because of the economy. But we have a very custom market. Doctors send their patients to us, as we are less expensive than custom Orthodox, but can give similar assistance. I look forward to work. Its interesting work and it gets me out of the house regularly.





Missing Trevor's game was tough. I will be able to make some of the other ones. The late games are best for me. But if I wasn't working, I would probably just be sitting around watching TV instead. This is so much more constructive.





Now I just have to swing a long break so I can get Trevor's floors done. I finally feel my energy returning with activity. Or it could be the vitamin regime I am now taking per the doctor's orders.