We had an off-and-on rainy weekend, and we are having a rainy Monday. We still had 130 riders over the weekend, and one family rode the 10:00 train this morning despite the rain and 53 degree (11.6 C) temperature. At least it wasn't windy and there is no lightning. The weather forecast is for more spotty rain showers, some heavy, for the rest of the day. So I am doing other things, all alone here in the shop.
So far I have re-priced some children's bib overalls, put t-shirts in plastic protectors -- railroads create lots of dust! -- , did a historical notice to push our Burma Shave signs, swept the carpet, searched unsuccesfully for the calculator that has disappeared from the register counter, answered some e-mail, replied to a sales person trying to interest me in train-themed notecards (Thanks, but no thanks!) and generally am waiting for the day to pass.
Speaking of Burma Shave, those of you old enough to recall, there was the famous one: Free! Free! Trip to Mars, for just 900 empty jars. Burma Shave.I guess I'll go look at catalogs and see what we need to re-order.
Turns out some store owner collected 900 empty jars and turned them in.
Burma Shave replied, "If a trip to Mars you earn, remember friend, there's no return."
So the dude gave them another 900 jars for a return trip.
They wound up giving him a trip to a place named Moers in Germany, which is pronounced like Mars.
LATER: We got busier in the afternoon and I had a crazy time trying to take an order over the phone to ship something to Oregon for a lady in Chicago while lots of people started pouring into the store.
I finally found the calculator.
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