Tuesday in the country

I left Monday without writing anything. I hate it when that happens. Today, my day started with a trip to a borrower's house in the country in Northeastern Meriwether County. This place was so far back in the sticks that Mapquest led you to the entrance of their road and didn't dare to go down lest the computer signal get lost in the dust. The problem was that the house was at the other end of the road.

I left Griffin fairly early in the morning to give myself some time to get to the house. I passed the entrance to the road the first time because it was a very narrow dirt road. I couldn't turn around until I got to Haralson, which is the next county. I turned around and missed the road again. I finally turned around and found the road. The unfortunate part of this was the fact that there are virtually no houses on this road. I drove over railroad tracks and past cattle and abandoned tenant houses and such, but no address. All the time I was trying to contact the borrowers on my cell phone as the signal faded in and out.

I was also having trouble getting someone from the service provider that had arranged for my services and had decided to drive back to Griffin. I stopped in Alvaton one last time and made the telephone call to the only person in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania that I could contact. She told me to hold on and she would try to contact the borrowers and have them call me. I sat in my car and read the bible while I awaited a call. Suddenly, the phone rang and I picked it up. The voice of the borrower started speaking and then the connection died. I tried to call back and got voicemail. Suddenly the service provider called back and assured me she would call the borrower again. Meanwhile, I was able to call the borrower and get connected. She arranged for her husband to meet me at a crossroads near their house and I drove to meet him.

When I finally got to the place of meeting, he led me to their house, which was the first house down the dirt road, but at the other end of the road. I parked my car behind the borrower's pickup truck and he immediately took me back to the side of his house where he had ten or twelve ten or twelve foot tall tomato plants planted. Each plant was bushy and full and held plenty of green tomatoes.

To make a long story short, we went inside to conduct the closing and I left with a bag of tomatoes and cucumbers for my trouble. Nice folks.