I hadn’t realized just how tired I
was until I stood in the shower and let the warm water flow over me. Every muscle was sore. I don’t know if it
came from stress or from sitting too long in the car. I really wasn’t very hungry so I decided to
raid the machines. I put on my favorite night gown and stepped to the door
fully expecting to be alone in the hall.
There standing in the foyer was the
Mayor and many, many men dressed in business suits. My only thing I could do
was wave and get back in my room, but the mayor had other ideas. How embarrassing. Of course, I will probably
be in contact with each one of them at some point of my business besides now
being one of the business owners in this lovely little town. I didn’t see any
way to gracefully get out it so I held a finger in the way of saying one moment
please, and rushed back into my room for the matching robe. There that was
better not great but better. I pushed my hair out of my eyes and decided not to
look in the mirror there was not much else I could do for myself, and I’m off
to face the business suits.
I will say this for my new home; they
do have some very handsome men in this city it seems. Everywhere I looked there
was another one standing in the hall and taking a good look at me. I am quite
sure my face was redder than my hair.
Mayor Daley pulled me over and
started to introduce me to each one of these gorgeous men who were on the town council.
I was so flustered that I couldn’t tell you any one name. Let alone mine. I think I will really like it here. Then she completely floored me by saying I
should be careful because every one of the men was either a nephew, son,
cousin, or related to her in some way. So right away I figured that meant hands
off.
I apologized for my appearance, but
everyone seemed ok with it. The mayor especially liked my nightgown and
robe. She said she had been looking for
that type for years. She wanted to know
where I got it, and when I explained to her that my mother has made all of my
clothes since the day I was born. I
didn’t like it when I was in school, but as I grew older I loved it. She is a
wonderful seamstress. THE mayor asked if she sewed for others and if she did
would she be willing to do some sewing for her.
She would pay her well. I told her I would give her my mother’s number
and she could ask. By now everyone there was sure to have had an eye full of
the newest addition to the city, so I tried as gracefully as possible to get
out of there. And I thought I had made
it, but no such luck. The council member named Jed put his foot in the door as
I was closing it and asked if he could take me to breakfast the next morning
since I hadn’t any time to look around yet.
How did he know that? My intuition started to kick in. I had better watch everything I do and say
for a bit.
No comments:
Post a Comment