Chilly Winds
The time had come to trim my beard for Christmas and so it was that I found myself in Kermit's Barber Shop today. Three people, not including the one already in the chair, were ahead of me and Kermit cuts hair at one speed — slow. Everybody gets twenty minutes of Kermit's time, regardless of how much hair you have, for $10. It's strictly first come, first served. No reservations and if you leave the shop for any reason, you lose your place. Accordingly I settled in for the one hour wait and joined in the barbershop prattle.
The discussion today centered around the situation with the automobile industry. I had not yet received my copy of this week's Alleghany News and was unaware that Alleghany Chevrolet, the only auto dealership in the county, had closed it's doors and General Motors was sending haulers this week to pick up their unsold vehicles. The chilly winds of our current economy had reached Alleghany County in a very tangible way. Twenty-one people had lost their job at a dealership that had been in business nearly sixty years.
Now the fellow who owns Alleghany Chevrolet also owns BCB Trucking and Truline Truss, a manufacturer of trusses used in the construction of houses. The trucking company has cut sixty jobs and the truss business sixty more. He said in an article in the paper "It seems like I'm in the businesses that have been hit the hardest by this economy."
None of this, you understand, affected me directly. But the closing of Bear Essentials Cabin Outfitters on December 23 will. That's were we all go to drink coffee and swap lies. It, too, is a victim of the economy in general and the housing market in particular.
Bummer.
The discussion today centered around the situation with the automobile industry. I had not yet received my copy of this week's Alleghany News and was unaware that Alleghany Chevrolet, the only auto dealership in the county, had closed it's doors and General Motors was sending haulers this week to pick up their unsold vehicles. The chilly winds of our current economy had reached Alleghany County in a very tangible way. Twenty-one people had lost their job at a dealership that had been in business nearly sixty years.
Now the fellow who owns Alleghany Chevrolet also owns BCB Trucking and Truline Truss, a manufacturer of trusses used in the construction of houses. The trucking company has cut sixty jobs and the truss business sixty more. He said in an article in the paper "It seems like I'm in the businesses that have been hit the hardest by this economy."
None of this, you understand, affected me directly. But the closing of Bear Essentials Cabin Outfitters on December 23 will. That's were we all go to drink coffee and swap lies. It, too, is a victim of the economy in general and the housing market in particular.
Bummer.
Comments
Post a Comment