There are some good things about small towns and knowing your neighbors. This tiller exemplifies one such experience.
We share a small tiller with a colleauge of Linda’s at work. He acquires the tillers and we store and maintain them and he comes out once a year to pick it up and use it. He just got us an upgrade and it needed some work as the pull rope was broken and it hadn’t been run for a number of years. I brought it to the neighborhood small engine man and he got it “back to good.” I arranged to pick it up at a certain time, but when I arrived, he was not home. So, I checked the shop, it was opened, the tiller was done and I poked around a bit and found the slip showing what I owed and left the money and took the tiller.
The car also needed new tires, so the neighbor down the road works at the goodyear shop in town and he just drove our car in to town in the morning, put the new tires on, and drove it home – saving us numerous jockeying back and forth with two cars and drivers and just leaves the bill on the front seat. Likewise, we have the same trust with our customers – if we deliver when they are not home, like clockwork a check is in our mailbox within a few days. It’s nice to have some relationships that are based on a handshake!