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 He was wearing his usual suit and tie, despite the
heat. Usually Delbert does his coffee drinking and socializing out
at the country club where the business guys go. We’ve been there,
and the chairs don’t fit as well.
For the past 10 years now, Delbert has run the local Chamber of
Commerce. The capital letters are on purpose, because that’s how
important it is to Delbert. We all have to admit he was a good
choice. His job is to promote our town and the surrounding area,
which he does by prowling through the town - his ample belly flying
under a full spinnaker -looking for out-of-state plates on the cars
during tourist season, and then convincing the visitors they should
(1) live here forever, (2) hire locals to build them a huge house,
and (3) start a business that will hire as many of us as they can
stand.
According to Delbert, several things are certain about our area
here: it is the only place in the world that will grow, our water is
so good we don’t need dentists except during our tourist season, the
deer in the surrounding hills are easy to hunt and are the size of
horses, the fish in Lewis Creek are so big children are afraid to
swim there and our average life expectancy is right around 104. [to top of second
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“Boys,” Delbert said with his
constant grin, “it’s looking like a good season. I can’t tell all
the details now, but it looks like we may be getting three factories
and you know how many houses they’ll have to build out on the flats
to hold all the employees.”
“Delbert,” said Doc, “you know they shouldn’t build out on the
flats. That thing floods out about every six years.”
Delbert saddened there for just a minute as he stirred his coffee,
then the sales gleam relit the surface of his face.
“That’s it!” he yelled. “We can call it ‘seasonal waterfront!’”
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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