Well, the parts store has seen a steady stream of customers, particularly in the mornings. This week is batteries. It seems as though everyone is needing one or two.

As any of you who have worked with me know, I like to have fun. Use to be when someone made the decision to leave the family business I would tell them, "You may work in a lot of places but you will never work in a place that you will have more fun than here."

That remains true, even today. I like to have a good laugh.

Recently, Chris's paternal grand Dad came by the parts store telling us if we wanted the security system from their grocery store, Chris needed to let him know. The system has two monitors, each accommodating four cameras.

There has been much discussion about how and where to place the cameras for surveillance.

Yesterday, Sylvia went to lunch and Max, Chris and I were at the store. My mind got to racing as I put together a scheme. I went into the office and retrieved a mounting kit, a screw, and a camera that had no wire attached. I took it into the bathroom we all share, and mounted the camera in the corner, just where the wooden paneling and the sheetrock meet. Actually placement is almost perfectly aligned that when you are sitting on the toilet, the camera is staring you directly in the eyes! I told Max what I had done and I took Chris back and showed him, but no one said a word to Sylvia.

Everyone cycled through their lunch hour and about three the Territory Sales Manager came in to do a class return and re-order that Max had been working on. About three-thirty Sylvia came around the counter and headed for the bathroom. All of us were waiting to see what her reaction would be. In a short while the door opened and she walked back behind the counter. "Ya'll are a bunch of assholes!" she proclaimed.

We all had a good laugh. I assured her there were no wires. Then I had to make her wonder if there was one wireless transmitter camera in the set. Finally I told her "No". Later in the day I went back to the bathroom and the camera was turned pointing straight down. Obviously Sylvia didn't like the camera.

I told Chris that I moved to stand at the other side of the toilet where the camera gets my good side!

Of course Chris says, "I'm not right!"

Max may be an exhibitionist. He is spending an abnormal amount of time in the bathroom since the camera was installed.

In another highlight of the day, I had given Pat a lotto scratch off in her birthday card and she walked in the store excitedly waving the card. She won a hundred dollars! She and Hag went to Abilene to eat and see a movie for her birthday!

Well, I hope your day was good. I had better get busy, I need to string some camera wire!

FATHER, thank YOU for YOUR gift of laughter!