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This is turning out to be a very profitable weekend.
S, the friend that was teaching me how to drive, sent me an email earlier asking if I still wanted to sell my recorder. He told me he sold his vintage Cadillac yesterday and peeled my $750 off of his $13,000 wad of car-sale cash. That he was carrying in his pocket. When I asked him about it, his response was, "I have a gun."
He asked me if I had gotten my license yet, and I told him my plan to attend a driving school here in town. He's friends with the woman who runs the driving school and asked her how much it would cost if he paid her to teach me how to drive since he's too busy lately. She quoted him $160, which is $140 less than if I were to take care of it on my own. Sweet deal, eh?
Another friend had called me on Friday and asked me if I wanted to earn some money this weekend. I agreed before he even told me what I would be doing.
There's a coffee shop here in town that's been pretty innovative for Cle Elum. They brought a little slice of the city to our small middle-of-nowhere town, and their most recent endeavor is an artisan's market in the empty lot next door to their building. So far, it's very small and mostly consists of people selling some type of food or drink, but I think that if they can get it going it will be a good step in the right direction.
"It's easy work. You just have to stand around and take money."
I was not sure what I would be taking money for, but I wanted in.
It turned out to be a produce stand.
When I set up the tables with various fruits and vegetables, I set them up the way that just made sense to me. I put the produce crates on their sides to show off the product, and created a tiered riser to make the most of the space and present the gorgeous mangos and bell peppers to people passing by. The boss, we'll call him Chicago, commented that my setup was much better than the one from the day before. Several other people also commended my design capabilities. Chicago was so impressed by my display and my suggestions for how he can go about selling more without charging less, that I've been invited back tomorrow, and was rewarded with $70 cash for 7 hours' work. Now, I used to wait on Chicago at DBC so I know he's generous, but I was not expecting to make $10 an hour to just stand around and try to coerce people into buying bunches of wilting leeks for 75 cents each. I'm hoping that this will turn into a regular arrangement and I can tell Safeway that I have a weekend job and they can no longer schedule me for Saturdays or Sundays, considering I made about twice as much money today as I make on my average shift at Safeway, and I didn't have to clean up after any disgusting tourists.
So, I have $800 burning a hole in my pocket. I got my phone bill squared away last week (did I already post that here?) and paid the $75 down payment on my camera, so $190 of my bank roll will finish paying it off on Tuesday, and the rest will be put into the neighbor's fender. If I'm lucky, the fender will only be $400 and I'll have the $160 to start my driving lessons immediately.
It's been a long holiday weekend for me, and I've spent a lot of time working hard, but overall I feel really great. Am I sickening you yet?
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