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Most people aren't very good story tellers. Many years ago I was working in Dallas Texas at the home office of Trailways. I worked for a typewriter repair company at the time not the bus company. I lived in Fort Worth at the time and was told by my neighbors that Dallas was back east and were Yankees. We were still on a friendly bases with them because they weren't like from some place like “New York City”! They had a lady that had worked with the company for many many years. Enough years that it is not polite to say and not enough yet to brag. Well she was working in the office that kept all the records of each buses maintenance log. There was a old typewriter she used to make label for each of the drawers that held the records of each bus. It wasn't as old as a Remington Standard Typewriter No.2 nor as rare as an Oliver typewriter 3 but she liked the typeface and wanted all the labels to match so she couldn't change typewriters with out changing all the labels witch was several hundred. So we had to fix this typewriter if we wanted the contract. They also had some IBM model 85’s. They could store several pages of letters. Well while at the Trailways office on the third floor there was a group of ladies that would read mail. They were on break saving with each other letters from customers. This one lady had a short novel that she had open at was about a trip to Denver. It seems the bus had mechanical problems with the transmission despite all the neatly kept records by the first lady. It was snowing and very cold outside. Since help was hours away the bus driver removed parts of the floor near him and used a screwdriver to change gears. The story included details about how a snowflake flew up from the hole in the floor and landed on the arm rest next to them. The letter was both complaining of the circumstance and complementary of the bus driver. Unlike this story it made clear concise points. But this letter dose prove like I stated in the beginning that “Most people aren't very good story tellers.” Seeing that I have successfully restated my first line this could be in the class of a shaggy dog story. Which leads me to another story....

"Most people aren't very good story tellers."

This missive will be endlessly useful to me in my perspirations as a writer.

Here's one of my favorites:

The Story Candler of Jason’s Harbor (04/23/2005)

Which leads me to another story....

Me too. Good night. Don't know if/when I'll have internet access again before late tomorrow evening.