Thursday, August 11, 2011

Job Description

Anyone who is self-employed or works as an agent for someone else (as I do) knows what our job description is: it’s whatever needs to be done.  The kinds of things I do as a mobile home sales specialist may seem obvious on the surface – list peoples’ homes for sale; hold Open House; stage homes; talk people up in a down market; follow-up.  But I’ve done a few other things, as well.  Today, for instance, I found that someone had been sleeping in the shed behind one of our mobile homes.  I brought out my garden gloves so I wouldn’t have to touch anything nasty --- removed a blanket, an empty bottle of medical marijuana, a soft drink cup that had been used as a urinal… and then I found a stack of stolen ID’s and credit cards.  All in a day’s work.  The names on the stolen IDs were of some neighbors several doors down. 
So if you’re wondering how smart the local thief is --- or if you had any delusions that medical marijuana enhances brain fuinction --- well, I don't think these young adults were smarted than a fifth-grader.

©  Elena E. Smith, 2011

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