He Hates Those Cans

 

 

Box sets, minus their boxes

You give the boss his due. He is the founder. He started this store the year you graduated from high school, the same year your oldest employee was making his way towards being born. So what if some of his directives are flat out nuts. What difference does it make? You get paid the same either way, but if the store goes broke, he doesn't get paid. You: can get another job.
Him: this is what he does.
So, if he wants to get those cans out of the store, you need to give it some consideration.

Signal Box Art by Erin Ruiz

 

Have some respect

AT the corner of 8th and Bannock, part of the traffic box beautification program, a great idea. Some moron, however, thinks that his stupid sticker would be just what is needed to take this box to another level. So he slaps it on. Some one will have to come take it off.
Some people are born to elevate the world, and some people are born to reduce the worlds level.
Do we really need both?

Curbside

 

Joe is out looking at some records in the trunk of a guys car. That is a prefered method of dealing with the near constant bombardment of product we deal with on a daily basis.
You start to get a feeling, you read people, judge what they say about the records, and decide what the prospects are before you even see the records themselves.
Ideally, you make the decision over the phone. A few questions usually give illuminating answers, and create a mental picture. My mothers old vinyls=Readers Digest sets. A lot of classical = Vol. 1 of the Funk & Wagnels classical music collection (Beethoven)

The Classic

The object is to keep this stuff from making it in the front door. Because once it makes it past the front door, it's usually left with us, and that is the problem. It increases the cost of everything. Nothing is free. Nothing. Every second that you spend thinking about a record, handling it, boxing it up, pushing it around, costs you money. Even on 99 cent records, even taking things out to the dumpster. Not all treasure is created equal.

Swedish winter footwear

As modeled by the lovely Jaycee Swede.