[AT] Rat race (was) Trucks pulling tractors
robinson at svs.net
robinson at svs.net
Tue Jan 25 05:35:42 PST 2005
On 25 Jan 2005 at 6:15, crawler wrote:
Got in
> the way of his fishing that was not Good..!! LOL Dad ran his business 4 1/2
> days a week in the spring til fall closed friday noon and went up north and his
> customers got to know it they wanted something done ,do it between Monday and
> Thurday. The last three years before he retired he closed Thursday 1:00Pm. Wish
> i was more like him I work almost 7 days a week and my now wife then girlfriend
> could not believe it Easter Sunday mornin 7:00AM some guy knocking to buy parts
> because he was broke down and needed it fix by Monday.
I have a sign tacked up in my shop that says "Remember, the primary product of
the great rat race is dead rats..."
Go buy a fishing pole... :-)
The two years before we retired to just the farm we had the store open Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. People learned (we did a lot of repeat business) and we
did 90 to 95% of the business we did when we were open 6 days a week. Being
closed 4 days cut our light bill, cut our heat bill and cut our commuting cost.
Making a lot more money by being open more days is an illusion. :-)
--
farmer, Esq.
Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net
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