Thursday, December 08, 2005
HOUSE SHOPPING WITH MR. CARTER AND OTHER NEWS...
Last night I saw a 1.5 million dollar house with Mr. Carter. He told the realtor that he wanted his daughter to see the house as well. The house was nice, very large, with four bedrooms. The realtor thought that was great for when “your daughter and her friends are over.” The best part about the house was the six car garage, which is exactly what Carter is looking for because he has so many cars to park there. But ultimately, we decided that the neighborhood was too fancy (“I don’t want to be living around all these stuffy stuck up rich people,” Carter remarked) and that the house was too big and not secluded or far enough from the street (Carter wants a lot of privacy) and he said, “If I’m spending this kind of money, I want to get exactly what I want.”
We drove around for another half an hour or so looking at houses, but didn’t see anything more that we liked that was for sale. There are a couple more that Carter is supposed to see next week. I told him that if he needed his daughter’s help, I would be more than happy to go with him to look at them.
In other news at the shop, George, Clint’s friend, was at the shop on Monday TWICE, but George is very elusive and he won’t talk to Carter if there are other people at the shop that he doesn’t know; each time he was there, the shop was crawling with people. So, Carter wasn’t able to ask him our crucial question: Clint’s whereabouts. But George now has a list of things that Carter wants to buy off of him and he said that it should be pretty easy to find these items; Carter expects George back sometime this week. If anything, he needs the items before Christmas, so that gives us some kind of time frame. Carter said that he also has begun thinking a lot about what he’s going to do when Clint actually walks into the shop. He said he is afraid he’s going to be so nervous that he might forget my number, so he has my CD next to his phone to remind him of my number and of Beth’s. He will call both of us and either leave a message if no one picks up or say the code words: “I have some time to fix your car if you can bring it down in the next half an hour.” If no one shows up, before Clint leaves, he is to pull him aside and give him the “Clint file” and tell him how important this deal is and that he will want to open it when he is alone. My feeling is that we will not be able to get to the shop in time and that the file will simply need to be passed off to Clint. In some regards, I think this may be best. It will give Clint the time he needs to digest what he can understand is going on here from the letter, rather than be faced with me unannounced at the shop. He may need some time to think and some preparation for this because this is going to be like getting hit by a truck. The man is Romany wicca, and by definition, has a romantic soul. So, there is no way he will not call me. And when he does, I will ask him I can buy him a drink and an hour of his time. And I will tell him the story. And most likely, that hour will turn into four or five...or more...
Carter says he’s starting to get nervous. I am too. I don’t know if this is because we sense the immediacy of this or what…but something may be about to go down. When I am with Clint finally, I will text message the letters “EMT” to Beth to indicate that it is an emergency. That is when her calls will begin…
May the force be with us…
Last night I saw a 1.5 million dollar house with Mr. Carter. He told the realtor that he wanted his daughter to see the house as well. The house was nice, very large, with four bedrooms. The realtor thought that was great for when “your daughter and her friends are over.” The best part about the house was the six car garage, which is exactly what Carter is looking for because he has so many cars to park there. But ultimately, we decided that the neighborhood was too fancy (“I don’t want to be living around all these stuffy stuck up rich people,” Carter remarked) and that the house was too big and not secluded or far enough from the street (Carter wants a lot of privacy) and he said, “If I’m spending this kind of money, I want to get exactly what I want.”
We drove around for another half an hour or so looking at houses, but didn’t see anything more that we liked that was for sale. There are a couple more that Carter is supposed to see next week. I told him that if he needed his daughter’s help, I would be more than happy to go with him to look at them.
In other news at the shop, George, Clint’s friend, was at the shop on Monday TWICE, but George is very elusive and he won’t talk to Carter if there are other people at the shop that he doesn’t know; each time he was there, the shop was crawling with people. So, Carter wasn’t able to ask him our crucial question: Clint’s whereabouts. But George now has a list of things that Carter wants to buy off of him and he said that it should be pretty easy to find these items; Carter expects George back sometime this week. If anything, he needs the items before Christmas, so that gives us some kind of time frame. Carter said that he also has begun thinking a lot about what he’s going to do when Clint actually walks into the shop. He said he is afraid he’s going to be so nervous that he might forget my number, so he has my CD next to his phone to remind him of my number and of Beth’s. He will call both of us and either leave a message if no one picks up or say the code words: “I have some time to fix your car if you can bring it down in the next half an hour.” If no one shows up, before Clint leaves, he is to pull him aside and give him the “Clint file” and tell him how important this deal is and that he will want to open it when he is alone. My feeling is that we will not be able to get to the shop in time and that the file will simply need to be passed off to Clint. In some regards, I think this may be best. It will give Clint the time he needs to digest what he can understand is going on here from the letter, rather than be faced with me unannounced at the shop. He may need some time to think and some preparation for this because this is going to be like getting hit by a truck. The man is Romany wicca, and by definition, has a romantic soul. So, there is no way he will not call me. And when he does, I will ask him I can buy him a drink and an hour of his time. And I will tell him the story. And most likely, that hour will turn into four or five...or more...
Carter says he’s starting to get nervous. I am too. I don’t know if this is because we sense the immediacy of this or what…but something may be about to go down. When I am with Clint finally, I will text message the letters “EMT” to Beth to indicate that it is an emergency. That is when her calls will begin…
May the force be with us…
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