Today's set of adventures included a flat tire and a wandering sales man. A tire on one of the mowers was flat so me and my friend were instructed to take it to Maverik and blow it up. We drive over there and park the trailer in the back and half walk half ride the flat mower over to the air pump. A black man was sitting behind the store watching us and as we approached, he jumped up to help. Both me and my friend had our hoods on because it was windy and cold. When we finally reached the pump we thanked the man and started to pump some air in the tire. Our hoods came down as we prepared the tire. He looks at us and then takes a double take as he exclaims "OH! You two are just shawty's! You are just girls!" Yeah, we got called a "Shawty". He then asked us where our boss was and all these questions. He was appalled our boss (who is a guy) let us go off on our own. He kept emphasizing that us (being girls) shouldn't be working like this. I mean, I was driving the big truck pulling the 4 lawn mowers and other equipment, but I think there's no need for him to think we are incapable or anything! We tried to explain he was off doing other properties and we were doing other things and he wasn't making us work against our will or anything. We answered his next 20 questions quickly trying to get away and back to work. The following conversation occured:
Him- Are you wives? Where are your husbands?
Us- We're not married, we are just working a summer job.
Him- You own a house? You rent? You homeowners?
Us- No. We don't own a house.
Him- Where you live?
Us- With our parents.
Him- Hey, why don't you come on over back there. I got somethin to show ya.
Us- .... Hold on, we gotta put our lawn mower away.
We put the lawn mower in the back of the trailer, snapped the chains on and were out of there before he could see that we definitely were not going "over there" to see what he had to show us. Moral of that story... Don't hang out in the back alley of Maverik's and look out for those travelling salesmen. We think he was selling something door to door but we sure didn't hang around to find out.
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