Woke up and got dressed around 9:00. I heard housekeeping down the hall so I wanted to be ready to get out when they knocked. Talked with T on the phone. Gods how I miss her!!! Dozed a little and there came the knock at 11. I got up and went out for another day of checking out the locals. I sat in a little street cafe while it rained a little. I talked with the owner for a while. He’s only been open for a week but he thinks he can make it work. He says the sheer volume of people makes it possible. Kind of makes me wonder about T wanting to open something in Pa. Not many people up there. But then, they’ve got to have some places, why not ours? He says one of the keys is to be happy all the time. No one wants to come in to a business with unhappy people. Even if you just got punched in the face, your wife served you divorce papers, and your dog died; you’ve got to smile. Yeah, T can do that. We can be in the middle of screaming at each other, crying and yelling but if that phone rings; “Hello?” all smiles without the slightest trace of stress. Then, as soon as she hangs up, it starts back up. I think she can be happy for her customers. If it’s her own business, the smiles will be genuine.
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