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and I decided to do it before my regular business hours so that I wouldn’t get behind. I was going to get up at 5:30 so I went to bed at 9:30 - I was tired anyway. Well, 1 got a call for the wrecker to get someone out of a ditch and 1 told him that I was going out anyway to scrape off some lots. I saw my wife looking at me as if 1 were crazy - it was still the middle of the niHu but I was so sleepy I thought it was time to get up. The guy on the phone didn’t think anything of it. He just said, ‘Well, 1 thought you were working day and night anyway.’ ”
The man in the ditch wasn’t far wrong about Mike’s schedule these days. Cold weather and snow have given him a flood of batteries to start and carburetors to work on. On the other hand, Mike said, gas sales are way off and have been since the completion of Route 66 to Front Royal.
To make it in these difficult times, it is necessary to do a little bit of everything. Besides providing general repair service, wrecker service, gasoline and oil sales, plus the sale of used vehicles, he has a small convenience grocery.
“1 don’t’ always know exactly how we’re doing with every little thing, but 1 figure if we do enough of several
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